| Between the Buried and Me – Astral Body Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think asev0 is definitely on the right track with the song. My interpretation of it comes out of a responsibility factor. The world is overpopulated, we are using finite resources at an astounding rate, and we lead to so much destruction because of greed and corruption. Prospect 2 who has been working on a project for a while to end humanity (the vessel, hypersleep, dreams of charred skin and red skies) and is looking down on the earth with disgust. He is viewing his own matter (man) from above who show no compassion or concern for this planet (blacked out eyes) and overpopulation. Our hands as a nation and people have been tied, and the system is failing (sold my hands) there really is no solution but to end life as we know it because we cannot return (under it all I know the devastation I have caused upon myself and on the world). We have no social responsibility and he is dreaming about how we bring about our own end. The video elaborates on this concept as well because the man is seen dreaming, and creates so many beautiful things from the trees, to mountains to water, and life itself. But when he creates a statue in the image of a man, it almost states that as intuitive as we are, we cannot bend creation to our own will without catastrophic results. We are no creator and just kind of shows that all we touch as a species falls to pieces. Prospect 2 is coming to terms with destroying all of humanity and is ready for further instruction (speak to me I am listening). |
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| Between the Buried and Me – Goodbye to Everything Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Tommy has said that Between the Buried and Me will be releasing a book with their interpretation of this album and I'm assuming the Parallax part I as well as the Night Owls but before that happens, I wanted to comment on all these songs for my own interpretation of the story. Goodbye to Everything is the first track on Parallax II: Future Sequence and serves more as an introduction to the album and the story to come. It's more of a foreboding track that explains what is to happen throughout the albums story. The Parallax features 2 characters from different parts of time referred to as "Prospect One" and Prospect Two" who are really the same person as well as "The Black Mask," a character referred to as "she," and "The Night Owls." Non-linear story telling and interesting lyrics make this album difficult to figure out but Lost Perfection I and II from The Silent Circus album make mention of these characters which will be discussed in a later song, as well as the mysterious Night Owls from The Great Misdirect and also Colors, Prequel to the Sequel. So that brings us to the interpretation. From my understanding prior to this album, Prospect I was fed up with living the way he was and fled to live a life out on his own in the ocean (Swim to the Moon from Great Misdirect). Unfortunately he meets his own demise and is reanimated as something else. After returning to the surface he spends 3 nights trying to figure out his predicament but on night 4 "they return" all the while he feels a nagging suspicion that his linear mind is as one with someone else, "The mirror stares back." Basically, he is reanimated as something else and comes to learn that he is connected to Prospect 2. Prospect 2 wakes up feeling like his is lying next to a sleeping person but reality catches up to alertness and she is gone and had been for a long time. He needs something new but today will change it all. He finds himself smiling up at a vessel (a ship) which brings him to hypersleep. He must keep working even though it's the "longest fucking days" the "seed is planted" and he dreams of the earth in flames. Still something doesn't seem right. It seems his decision to end life as we know it was decided long ago by the conversation with the Night Owls mentioned in "Lunar Wilderness" Again, this is just an interpretation of Parallax I. So where does it leave us with the new album? Both of the Prospects realize that they must destroy all of mankind to save life because man is the destroyer. They don't realize if it is right, selfish, or wrong to do but it's foreboding to the coming end. |
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| The Pineapple Thief – Dead In The Water Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this is one of the most beautiful songs that I have ever heard. I am under the impression that Bruce, the singer of Pineapple Thief lost his son at an early age as in still an infant, so I believe that this song is that Bruce or possible the narrator was waiting for the conception of his/her child and shortly after birth it died. The child is dying, so he says hold on just a little bit longer, poessibly so he can survive for a few more moments. However at the end, the child dies in the arms of the father. This song is terribly sad and also kind of positive, because the child died in his father's loving arms, as an innocent child that couldn't live to be corrupted by the messed up world we live in. Overall, this song is quite complex with all the instrumentation, including effects that sound like a guitar being plugged into an amp and the cord manipulated. It's just a very beautiful song. | |
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