| The Dear Hunter – This Beautiful Life Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| pretty sure the implied word is whore, but seeing as its TDH they'd never say that. It makes the most sense seeing as his "life from before", involved Ms.Leading who in fact was a whore. It also makes sense if you take the previous song on the album into consideration. | |
| The Dear Hunter – City Escape Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| What i get from this is Ms.Terri is not the whore bearing the child, but a whore unable to bear childrin. Hence her "parous plight", and that she in fact kills another pregnant whore after she has given birth. I think the chorus represents the wrath of Ms.Terri on this woman befor she regrets doing it. She panics at the reprucussions of killing another whore and therefore runs from the city with the child she never could have. The "pardoned by the flame" supports her freedom from the brothel, speaking optimistically after slaying someone. her "bleeding between the seams" are from the struggle with te boys mother. "The breath escapes her, but the pulse remains": this line is a metaphor. Her life is leaving her. I believe she's dead at this point. The pulse is symbolic of her son, who is now living outside of the city with woman who killed his mother. Not rejecing anybody elses viewpoint, I just think this makes the plot spicier and the story gets a little more emotionally stimulating. | |
| The Dear Hunter – The Inquiry of Ms.Terri Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm Fairly Positive that the story goes from Battesimo del Fuoco, him being born as his mother dies. so Ms.Terri isn't the his mother, and if you look at the lyrics in City Escape, we realize that Ms.Terri is in fact his mother's killer. I believe that his mother tried to make an escape from the brothel because she knew she was with child, and was stopped. Ms. Terri then took him in and this song is about him loving her as a mother, but her basically being a caniving whore. The way she was described in City Escape leads me to believe she was higher up in the harlot ranks than most giving her some type of motive. Anyway: "A hope removed, a life resumed right here. And the Priest and the Rosary, the book and the bond between me and me has long since broken. A boy who's grown, too short to see, a tale unfolds, too tall to see. A life once lived behind closed doors, the irony of a pensive heart." This line starts out talking about his mother's failed escape from the brothel in City Escape. He is taken back to the city where he is raised ignorant to the plans that she's made for him. And It's pretty ironic what shows up for him in Act: II so i guess that sums up the last line. "Touch, taste, feel it ripping me down. A reprise, two times, the dime, burn it to the ground." The chorus basically shows Ms.Terri's disdain for the brothel. Everything about it is disgusting to her and she would much prefer if it weren't standing. "The inquiry of Ms.Terri, the expiry of misery, the table turns, the sun long, the river bed, and he's alone. The object of affection, conflicted by convictions of indecency, sorority, corrupted by impropriety. The cavalier, she holds of him, in dissonance with experience, a boy who grows, with knife in hand, to fend for her, becomes a man. But she plays fake affection, and carefully lacks subjection, to the gentleman callers twisted desires." What I get here is that working at a brothel isn't all that it's cracked up to be, so she's going to use this boy she's treating like her son to takee down the brothel for her because, again, she's a caniving whore. (I don't understand how people get anyything but "the inquiry of Ms.Terri" in the beginning. it is the name of the song after all.) "Touch, taste, feel it ripping me down. A reprise, two times, that time, burn it to the ground. "We dance around the room, my love I'll carry you, and I'll teach you how to treat that Leading Lady you'll meet. We dance around the truth, my dear I lie for you, but when I lie down, I'm simply lying to them too. " Is that some foreshadowing I see in the first line? Of course it is. Ms. Leading before we were wondering about the meaning all things regarding her. Wow, Ms.Terri seems to have it all planned out at this point. She obviously has no intention of telling him the truth and will keep up her fake feelings for him and obviously she's faking orgasms...or she doesn't give a damn about her clients. |
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