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| The Dear Hunter – Black Sandy Beaches Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It sounds very much like there is a mysterious unnamed female character reading the letters. Perhaps we'll learn her identity in later acts. This does not mean however, that Ms. Leading never saw the letters. That subject is still open. |
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| The Dear Hunter – Vital Vessels Vindicate Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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"As mammouths depart" is a brilliant metaphor describing things that once seemed so important, leaving his life and Ms. Leading's life. It beautifully contrasts the flames which seem like small little parts of life until they start large fires.
On a smaller, more immediate definition of the fire and the flame in this song, however I wonder if he fears he is doomed to his father's fate consorting with prostitutes and he can't escape his destiny.
Pure guesses, but just thinking Act III might involve finding out that the pimp/priest was the one intercepting Ms. Leading's letters. The Dear Hunter will confront him about it and they will get into a violent struggle, which The Dear Hunter will lose. There will then be a song about his shame at his own inaddequacy and he will debate calling the cops on the pimp/priest. He wants to do this TO the priest, but fears for the future of all the prostitutes who make their living becasue of him such as his mother and Ms. Leading. I think he will end up calling the cops though.
The time line is a little confusing because that one song was entitled 1878, but in Smiling Swine he mentions a car. Perhaps prostitution isn't even illegal whenever and wherever the Dear Hunter lives, merely speculating. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Procession Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The Dear Hunter would not have killed her in my opinion. He's too much of a romantic as we learn later in Act II. As a hopeless romantic myself, I feel that family obligatory love is just as binding, in merely a different way from falling in love. I like the idea of the pimp and the priest terminating her, and I have this funny feeling that we'll find out in later acts that he was intercepting Ms. Leading's letters and the Dear Hunter will confront him (in possibly a violent matter).
I think the one life for another does represent the Dear Hunter being able to find his own life now that his obligatory "matriarchal bonds" are cut. |
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| The Dear Hunter – His Hands Matched His Tongue Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I agree with daugarten. I feel this song is about how he sees his mother unhappy, and wants to know why, but knows he has no place to ask her. Maybe he feels guilty as if it's his fault. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Pimp and The Priest Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't like to pick favorite songs, but I must admit I always look forward to this track.
"The pimp and the priest are already equipped with an enigmatic frontage"
How does one come up with such amazing lines? As a fellow lyricist I bow down to Casey. |
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| The Dear Hunter – 1878 Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Ms. Terri contemplates suicide? Knives. Drowning. I do like to think of the son and her job as a lake and a river though. Perhaps she's metaphorically drowning because of THEM. |
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| The Dear Hunter – City Escape Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This further strengthens my argument that the flame may refer to the father. As if the child is asking "why don't I have a father like the other kids?" in the opening line. Just to go on record I believe in personal interpretation and taking from a song what it means to you, I just enjoy seeing everyone's opinions and offering new viepoints as well :) |
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