| Dustin Kensrue – Carry the Fire Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy called The Road. The novel follows the journey of a man and his son through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as they struggle to survive while travelling south on an interstate highway. The song's title comes from the son's concerns with making sure they are "carrying the fire," assuring himself that he and his father are the good guys as opposed to the bad guys, who kill animals and people for food. The general tone of the song mirrors the tone of the book, with hope for salvation seeming ever out of reach. While the book remains ambivalent right to the end as to whether hope become sight, the bridge of the song seems to answer in the affirmative. The song ends as the book does, with the death of the father, leaving the son to continue carrying the fire. |
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| Thrice – Wood and Wire Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Hi guys The chorus part is originally from 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 "Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory..." Amazing! Cheers |
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| Thrice – The Sky Is Falling Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree and disagree with Sabio's interpretation. I'm not American, so maybe I have a bit of a different view on the song. Anyway, here goes mine: I think the song is written from the viewpoint of someone living in a country like Iraq, but at the same time the song is deliberately ambiguous about whose viewpoint it is, because Dustin is trying to bring across the point that in both sides of a war the actual citizens are both living in fear. An "us and them" theme would thus not be between Americans and Iraqis/terrorists, but rather maybe citizens and governments/ warmongers/terrorists. So to break it down: The reason I say it's from an Iraqi-type viewpoint is "she won't make her teens" and "if we could leave we would have left". That doesn't sound like America at all. People try to get IN to America, not out. Also, life expectancy in America is very high, as opposed to war-torn countries or Africa. Further, "juggernaut" would seem like an appropriate word an Iraqi would use to describe America, as opposed to the other way around. Then there's the chorus "no-one will care as long as it falls overseas" which seems to imply that anything happening at ground level (citizens dying) in a country like Iraq won't make international headlines the way it would if it happened in the US. And then "don't let my terror turn to hate" is almost a wordplay on terrorist, ie. don't let my terror turn me into a terrorist. So the temptation is there for the Iraqi citizen to buy into the jingoists propaganda and become a terrorist. The ambiguity comes in with "we're just miles apart but worlds away" and "we all dance a jingo cabaret". So Dustin's saying both sides are actually in the same situation, with both sides experiencing fears and jingoism, but in different guises. So to summarize - for someone writing to a (predominantly) American audience, the most powerful way to convey the idea of suffering on both sides, would be to write the song from the point of view of the "enemy". Hope this makes sense! |
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