| Protest the Hero – Heretics & Killers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Thanks a lot, I can clearly tell that's what's said after listening to it with those lyrics in front of me. I almost had the first one, but couldn't make out the last word at first. The second I had not a clue, but that makes sense and is what he says after listening closely. | |
| Protest the Hero – Heretics & Killers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"With my faith in ruins my duty still breathes strong I'm a parrot in a cage now singing prayers to belong To a textbook of my crying, lying, dying history" This seems to indicate as stated before that he's just reciting the passages of the scriptures before him that hold no meaning, like a "parrot in a cage." However, those above seem to have left out that he does this out of the duty for his religion that still remains in him. Though he no longer has faith in the words, he is devoted to his role so that he may still retain his role in the system. |
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| Protest the Hero – No Stars Over Bethlehem Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Thanks a lot, topgun, I had been wondering about that line for some time and couldn't make sense of it. Now, it's quite obvious that it plays off of the phrase "End justifies the means," but instead of doing this, the church has played the opposite role and has acted in such a way that they need an end big enough to justify the "Saint Michael-sized means" they used in the past and are still using (the throe they have over the people is justified by the will of God?). It seems to basically say that there's no way to justify the atrocities committed in the name of God, as you stated. I know I rehashed a bit of what you said, but I hope to have clarified for those who still didn't understand (like the one convinced it's "Saint Michael's eyes..." Also, I must disagree with most of Aeroblitz's conclusions as they leave out much of the underlying meaning. Though the priest has doubts about his religion, he still seems to cling to it through this point in the story and this song reflects more of his inner turmoil than a calumny against God. The killing of God seems more figurative and refers to the idea of God being fully done away with. It would seal creation's fate in that the control that the church had would be gone and result in a kind of anarchy as people lose the rigid structure that had previously restrained them and also more literally in the lack of hope for a future beyond death. That is at least how I interpreted it. |
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| Protest the Hero – Turn Soonest to the Sea Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm sorry, I meant noreturnabyss rather than AmpleVoltage. I looked at the wrong page when making reference. | |
| Protest the Hero – Turn Soonest to the Sea Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The song is most certainly not from the perspective of Kezia, as the lines seem to be made to apply to her: "I remember when you were hopeful And you never thought your life would be lived inside a coffin with a moral sacrifice and a million social obligations" This is stated by someone who has obviously known Kezia since she was young (>17), before she was tied down by the expectations of society and presumably before she gave up her virginity ("bled on the bed as [she] fed those expectations"). She hesitated to fill the role set before her by society which was a strict boundary of what she couldn't be: "Not a mother, not an aunt, not a sister who's not subdued." "I know we'll wake up one day with a gun to the back of our brains You'll be asking for your rib and I'll smile and call you brave" The above lines are a bit confusing. It may be that the "we" refers to the author of the note and Kezia and that they'll both be martyrs for the cause of egalitarianism. Or it may be that the "we" refers to men as a whole, in which case I feel that the next lines must be interpreted entirely differently, as it would seems that the women would have turned the tables and be instead the oppressors of those that had oppressed them (mankind). Or it may be something completely different (feel free to comment). "Maybe someday when - when this bloody skull has dried I'll know our city is in ruins when the greatest source of pride is a monument of dicks and ribs and gender crowns we wore" If it is the first case, and the gun is also to the back of Kezia's head (and the author's), then the bloody skull belongs to either of them and its drying obviously refers to the event occurring (long) after they have died. The city may be in ruins, but the monument to what has been accomplished is still intact. However, I find the other scenario to be more plausible. The "we" refers to "man" and they are in turn oppressed in the same manner as women were once oppressed. The city (world) would then be in ruins when instead of the objectification of women you have a similar idol set to the dicks and ribs (rather than breasts, as now) and other gender symbols of man. The plaque's reading then takes on a new meaning of an oppressive regime rather than a message of hope. Also, good catch AmpleVoltage. I didn't know that Young and Modern was a magazine, but it certainly makes sense that they would slip in more examples of objectification in society. |
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