| Puscifer – Polar Bear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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No need to bear it alone...the idea of white lies comes to mind -- that even if global warming were a big scare some of the individually carried out solutions would be good for one...be it hell or high water. The lumbering synth line, the echoey sound, and distant, shivery presentation of Maynard's vocals are truly awesome musicianship for evoking a scene of loneliness, cold, and a free-floating loss of perspective. Also, there is the association of snow and the color white being representative of innocence and youth or perhaps the white robes that Christ is so often depicted as being dressed in. These symbols would lend symbolic texture to this polar bear being on a mission or "end," "a chipping away," and the "look of fear" of "braving it alone" that has the subject floating away. What seems like a call for environmental protection could verily be the call that anyone takes up - one whose adherence is also an alienation that may well be the death sentence of activist martyrdom. On the Puscifer website a live version of Momma Sed and Holiday on the Moon follow this song. Both seem concerned with following something to it's end in an unquestioning mindset - be it kidney stones or the ridiculousness of being grateful for a holiday on the cold, lifeless speck of dust that orbits our planet - quite the view but no one in sight. Maynard's own carrier would seem to support this notion. As a fan of Puscifer one may well know he spent years as the frontman for Tool and the occasional guest singer for other bands. Years went between albums and tours of performance and it is only recently that he has departed from the subject matter and style of Tool sound to be a more steady, occasionally quite serious frontman for A Perfect Circle and, of course Puscifer. This song also reminds me heavily of Eskimo by Damien Rice. I've never heard of them being friends but if the interesting similarity between The Mission by Puscifer and The Mission by Damien Marley were an indication of a trend within C is for... then one might profit meaning from a reading of the lyrics for Eskimo and a picture of the agonized, tear-worn face of Rice. |
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| Puscifer – The Mission Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I quite agree. By chance I looked at Damien Marley's song The Mission and the lyrics here seem to be a reply. | |
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