| Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree with sticky too, I've seen other lyrics that say "despite the loss" but it definitely sounds like "despite it all." | |
| Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I love this song so much. I think it's about wanting to let a destructive relationship go, but not being able to, because you love the person. The whole song seems like he's going back and forth. I think ultimately they try to make it work, but maybe I'm just an optimist :). Give me your hand, lets face this night and see it through. |
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| The Mars Volta – Drunkship of Lanterns Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I just saw these guys a few days ago in Kansas City, amazing show, high intensity the whole time. Anyway, TMV is one of my favorite bands, and since seeing them, I've been looking into their lyrics more. Anyone who has gotten to the point of reading about the meanings of their songs should go full out and try to understand this entire album, because the experience of diving into it has been really rewarding for me thus far. I think this song (based upon the album book, other people's comments, and the lyrics) has a few different levels. The first is a pretty literal level which other people have convered. Cerpin Taxt is in a comatose and going through this adventure. He is in this submarine watching all of these planes and subs crash and stuff. This is just another step in his journey. So, now speaking metaphorically, what does this song mean? Although when he actually arrived is quite debatable, I think it is safe to say that Julio was in a full out comatose in the hospital in this song. I really feel that this is about his total immersion in what has happened to him, and his realization that his life is soon going to end. I think it's all about the loss of faith. The concept of the submarine represents total isolation, because you can't leave it. The crashing planes represent his disconnection with mankind, being manmade machines. Also, they are "carpel" planes. Carpel is the leaf on flower that encloses the ovules, so I can see this as a metaphor for basically a discontinutiy of everything, including a chance for rebirth. Cerpin Taxt is realizing that he will not return from this journey. Cenotaph is a burial that doesn't contain the actual body, so his submarine is possibly going to be where he dies mentally, while his body is still in reality. Compass wilting in the wind is pretty obvious, loss of direction on this ocean. Rowing sheep to me seem like how sheep float by in one's mind as a symbol of sleep. Lash of one thousand eyebrows-this one is a lot harder, but the lash of an eyebrow like lashing a whip seems to be when it is raised-raised in question, counting the toll, counting the price paid as a consequence of Julios actions, for doing this to himself. All in all, I read somewhere that the ESP is prepared by the fictional characters of Julio's world he had created through his artwork, and the ESP is supposed to serve as a sort of mental adventure full of trials- a purgatory where in the end one kills themself for forgiveness and repentence, or something of that nature. This would all go along with that theme as a crucial step in his adventure-where he hits rock bottom. I hope this helps, it took me a long ass time to come up with what I have, so I really hope someone reads this. The Mars Volta changed my life Make love, not war |
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