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| Baroness – Swollen and Halo Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This could be a stretch, but I get the feeling that the "now I've buried all the gold beneath my hide" line could be an oblique reference to The Outsiders, more specifically the line "stay gold, Ponyboy" which has become synonymous with youthful naivite. Maybe the song is about losing one's youthful innocence through the horror of a war injury? |
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| Baroness – Steel That Sleeps the Eye Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I don't know about the other lyrics to this song, but the phrase "Steel that sleeps the eye" must be a reference to guitar player Pete Adams. He was the original second guitarist before he left to fight in Iraq. A grenade or a mortar or something blew up net to him and some shrapnel hit him in the eye, so he has a fake one now. He came back and joined the band again right before they wrote Blue Record. I can only assume that the Steel that Sleeps the Eye" is some sort of reference to that. |
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