| The Dear Hunter – Where The Road Parts Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Where the road parts: I am still confounded by the folds that casey keeps bringing up. Hopefully I will get it. I think jpainsworth may be right. The imagery also suggests revealing themselves as in a card game. Or giving up on a gamble? All the imagery suggested by the word ‘fold’ may be correct but I feel as if it is specific. So lets see, a lotta stuff is culminating besides fold: bitter, stale, tongue, bloom, sacrifice a life, these are all mentioned before hand so I think that all those images surround his lust and desires and guilt. Because all such factors resulted in the result of their fight. He was exploiting himself by breaking down and trying to gain power. His one attempt at power as the world is overpowering him. Something like that. “egos running me”, yeah. |
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| The Dear Hunter – Red Hands Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Red hands. He knows she strayed, ouch, he’s killing his soul for her?! Yep. For this song, consult the police’s “Roxanne” Its “his” under cover mattress, I think that ms. Leading is being yelled at for going out of her way to sex someone. And the boy is engaging in angry sex. “scripted players” hm.. someones behind it all perhaps “hope the endings well worth waiting for” again the theme of thinking your life is a story. Soooo… then he learns something of himself as he realizes that he has wronged his leading lady. He is on display?? Well the veil will only be lifted if you show your soul. Remember that line? My mom said that you learn a lot about yourself by dating and loving: case and point. The scene is abstractly bloody, not literally bloody. The red hands, grabbing his heart Indiana jones style. Then, there is the Coda of a harp. This is him and her making up. And then having sex, if the guitar solo in the next song is that. Or they break up. Lets find out. |
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| The Dear Hunter – Blood of the Rose Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Rose? Or rows. Hm… maybe this is the bleeding tango of life?? Damn, I don’t speak Spanish but thankfully barkley moogle helps me. The decay is a reference to act 1 (I forget the song) which is important because act 1 is so foundational . Then there is this new image of an iron chambered heart. This kinda is leading us to act 3. Anyways, its just talking about how fake the world is and how everyone is so defensive in the city. It’s just the woes of the rows of hos in the city. And the Spanish part brings us back to his mama so he is realizing some more of his past . But the song is also relating to Ms. Leading and I see some relations between the boy and her that then are presented in the next song. |
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| The Dear Hunter – Evicted Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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So evicted: It means 2 things. One he’s being taken away from ms. Leading by that dbag. But I think it is returning to the larger theme of prostituting yourself to survive and it is literally talking about being evicted “sleeping softly curbside”. Lolz on the curbside being soft. So he is joining the masses as they sing their pain. This brings us back to the smiling swine And then to the oracles on the Delphi. So now, it’s about faking it and emptying yourself. Aka get a job. |
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| The Dear Hunter – Smiling Swine Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Smiling swine Oh shit. {Get outa her. Hey look, a random guy.} Someone mentioned it may be the boy’s twin. Well casey presents this conversation in a way that has the same voice going back and forth with itself. Hm… But its proly not that. Lotta people say its just the pimp, but i think it means more than that with the context of the next song. though manipulation is probably the first meaning. i think it's broader: I have never read Machiavelli, but I know it had something to do with “The prince” or king or something like that. First political theory if I remember right. So he’s like this prince/principalcharacter/principality that comes out of the streets like a dandelion. I love it. But is that the boy? Or another bo — beaux: smiling swine? Whatever, because he is plucked blissfully, which reminds me of getting sexed. So it could be either really. But I think the smiling swine is representing of just pigs in general. Power in general getting pissed off at him, and eventually evicting him and crushing his lovely chorus of love for ms. Leading. Still, despite all this, I don’t get “blissfully plucked from the bloom of another” but I think it’s important. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Bitter Suite II: Embrace Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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this song makes me wish i liked pale girls. ooh pale? recall how he filled the pale in act 1? yes! that is all. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Bitter Suite I: Meeting Ms. Leading / Through the Dime Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Bittersweet: I suspect every title is a pun somehow. But this one is the most obvi. {ooh hawt babe. Me want. So much zeal. Cant get over it, my overzeal for her to peel of clothes yum she dances. She be my leading lady. Ooh reminds me of mommy. Oh she wants money. Damn. Hm. Oh well, me want poontang. Is this love? Proly not, poontang good tho. “maximize your inner fire?” Viagra. See me? Feel me? No, wrong musical. Touch, taste, feel, two times? Me strong, young man, all night long.} Only thing worth noting: “ignorance has room to breath, they’ll play a part and act a scene, the prejudice and the guilty.” It means a lot. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Church and the Dime Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Dimechurch: Again, I think there are2 people (twin in a mask). So some ladies prayer is foiled by the unfolding reality of the our leading Boy “alone” as usual. The next part is obviously talking about fat whores (fold) Or not. His aloneness is emphasized and the “clientele” remains shrouded in mystery. Sex is further related to the spiritual but in a more positive way I think than before it was just expoitive in act 1. (theory btw, about the death of ms. Terri, it was ordered by pimp/priest entity as he said “take me to the river” and therefore the tree/father/person who died may have been one of the twins or may have been the original father, or some dude who “she prayed to” in the beginning of this song but he had to kill her for some secret reason. Maybe?) Best line is the ending “force fed in the stomach of sin welcome to the world”. The alliteration draws our attention, but when we focus we see that this has two meanings. Figer it out yourself. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Oracles on the Delphi Express Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The Oracles I would like to point out the crimson hands, this is some secret guilt he feels tied back to his tied hands/tongue in Act 1. And I think later he will realize he is not guilty in Act 3 “With you can’t be caught red handed if you’re not red handed.” Because that is the motivation behind his change “stuck in the middle of patience and animosity” He is being encouraged here to change and join these guys. Very Pinocchio again. Haha not that that’s the reference, but I feel like everyone knows Pinocchio. He is being confronted with some reality and the title is again a greek reference to Delphi which I am pretty sure has to do something with Apollo and theater. I forget though. And we all know Apollo was a fiery dude. So perhaps the message in this song is the truth to the entire story, or it is just a part of the oracles revealing the truth to the boy. and mike wont reply kinda spelled out the future, but i think its more about truth than what it says about the future if ya know what i mean. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Lake and the River Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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So here we have a reference to 1878 I think? But, he is now learning a bit more I think. Or he is going to go learn. I love the general statement pronounced in the beginning. “everything you’d live and die for”, “reasons leading you through here” they are basically the same thing. Whatever reasons lead you through life, is everything you’d live and die for. So he is living to discover his life. Yay. So now we got this pinochio thing going on. And there is a little reference to the “ghosts” probably meaning Casey and his Chorus that lead him through life kinda hinting on the debacle of predestination and freewill. He leaves, which he wanted to before but now he is haunted by his mother because that is the only world he ever knew (think of the album cover of Act 1 and the world at the roots). So something is mentioned that we should note: “the veil lifts when you expose your soul” meaning only he can find himself when he is honest. Then there is that theme of direction again “left right”. Glad someone else got the greek reference before I did. And the tree represented talks of someones death? Yeah, I can see that. But I dunno, I feel like its still talking about his father somehow. Anyways, the boy with the knife is finally explained (mentioned in act 1) that it is happiness. Hm: So his joy is this tool that eventually bleeds him dry and his mother bleeds herself/well dry as he is filled up with some sort of happiness. Now I see why his mind is on fire haha. Here I believe, it is not the chorus, but the boy speaking and trying to make sense of everything that has happened. As a result, he comes up with this background that is represented in all of these images, but is still not enough. It’s not the truth of it. And it’s not satisfactory “but we press on” trying to situate his pain with others. He is throwing up his hands, as was with the tree earlier in act 1, but some light has been shed. Lotta loaded imagery here. The sea’s upset with the sky reminds us of his journey. I would claim his trek to be compared to sailing, (his birth is a berth) and I really like what deewunnonlee said, but I’d like to go into that a bit further. If we allow ourselves, we can see how a tree would connect water and the sky. If the water is physically below representing his past and roots, well when it is “UP” (cause casey loves word play) and “SET” with the sky then we see that his past and future (the sky) are intermixed heavily. So I don’t think the point is that he’ll never be happy, no I think that he is just dragged down now by his past as is trying to fly further and once has finally made peace with his future and his past, finding the balance between the sea and the sky then he will find the tip of happiness and not be on it’s side, the edge of the blade. I am missing some stuff and going too far with other things. But I feel it partially represents the conceptual landscape presented here. Now, his wings are broke and he is gonna be swallowed into the earth. But the conclusion of this song is pressing on. The next part is someone else singing and it speeds into the oracles. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Procession Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Procession:=funeral. but i dont think there is a funeral. generally a funeral procession includes some ceremony and walking, and i think all of that is represented in the boy's exodus. Such a good painting of the boy discovering his mother’s death. “trumpets decay” oh god yes. Remember the well from act 1 all dried up? Yeah, it has finally been dried up. So we can guess it has something to do with his mother (sexual chalice) but it is more than that, it is a motherly chalice (incest returns!) and the “stale smell” is deathly in the hay there no one cry. Here we see the boy’s strength, in my opinion, but it is also sad that no one will mourn her and that is why we feel bad for Boy. “We (him and his mother) are broke and alone” and he discovers a truth of life that is a theme (said over and over in act 3s finale) “we all die alone”. Now, he thinks of the death. Is this the narrator describing the oddness that her beauty remains? Or the boys meditation? Dunno. But it’s pretty easy to understand. He leaves, something about being unsure. And finally, “one life for another” reminds us of his birth as she sacrificed her life for him. This is my favorite song btw. It is so well done in every aspect and very creative in the rhythm. Plus, the tone really matches the lyrics. It’s probably the most complete song in the album. |
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| The Dear Hunter – His Hands Matched His Tongue Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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His hands matched his tongue? Love it. Read that, you think red. But you also think that he speaks with his hands (charac trait), but you also think that whatever he says, matches his actions. This pretty song, I feel we are finally with the boy. Or someone. Singing about something that happened. Still this song is talking a lot about some sort of mystery. I think he regrets trying to leave and perhaps he had an argument with his mother in the past song. There are many reasons against him going with prostitutes. Though he is wondering, there is a hint of sexual exploration. But that is part of the bigger picture, knowing his past. The past few songs talk a lot about his effort (pale with a leak, all his water in it, the well is now dry as he is) and other stuff in 1878. Imagine this song and the 2 before are an arch of his emotion. A swelling fear of the darkness/desire for knowledge, his decision to leave his mother, his recognition that his impatience is terrible considering the fact that his mother may die soon. This intuition is important, cause yeah, she’s gonna die pretty soon haha. So here comes back that chorus, and it is another version of discovery basically. Still, he is left in wondering. I would say that something happened, an actual event is depicted in the first verse. Though I’m unsure what. It appears calamitous, and perhaps it was just the calamity of his anger. But he rests in the calm assurance that “in time I think I’ll see just what’s been weighing down on me”. The next portion, I keep getting this image of him cuddling with his mother and kissing her on the fore head in some old, crappy shack of a house as he realizes there is nothing he can do to change his circumstances. At least for now. And then! We clap for the boy. A lotta good insight has been given above, but I feel as if the images are all very specific, though I can’t discern it. Which may be Casey’s point, to thrust us into confusion with the Boy and only know enough. Letting those evil violins at the end, tempt us onto Act 2 |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Pimp and The Priest Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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So a horn comes in, presenting a different part of the story indicated by the totally different tone. Best pun of the song? “the pimp and priest Prey/Pra quietly where the precious sinners sit” K. time to talk about this dude. Is he one guy? Or two dbag bros rippin people off? Or is Casey trying to make a statement about how church steals from innocent peoples desires in the same way that a brothel does? Dunno. Who is going to the river? Is this the boy leaving or is this an enemy approaching? Many questions… I’d say that he is drawing parallels between the too, but he never criticizes church. Just the man who is exploiting people via church and prostitutes. The first part, well every other word has several meanings. So just use your brain. Later, its acutally “conquer your sins while she screams on her back”, this is the irony that the priest is enticing people to “conquer their sins” when they are actually embracing them. Lolz, “suffocate stress” They wanna be ‘saved’ “faster”, and “harder”. Yay sexual innuendos. Brings new meaning to confession as a spiritual action. SO GREAT. And the scratch? Ya know that itch ya gotta itch. There ya go. Then we have the other voice, going to the river. It is a final voice in how it’s pronounced, as if determined in his decision, the boy leaves. Then the chorus that we will hear later on in the story “sing softly sing me to the lake, … bring me to the light” well that’s probably talkin about how the knowledge is in your past or something. Who cares about that though? btw, bush syndrome, lolz all over the place. but dont undermine casey crezendo or whoever writes these lyrics. it ruins the music, the meaning may not be obvious, but that doesnt mean its meaningless. you ruin the music. |
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| The Dear Hunter – 1878 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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1878: hm. Birth year? Year of song? Or something significant. Dunno. There isn’t much analysis available here. It in my opinion, is the culmination of the story so far and a shift towards the boy’s story. Both Ms. Terri and her son seem to be speaking in this part, but the song is the pain and their life. I think the knife/night debacle is tough, but I’d side with the knife, perhaps night is in there too but the night has no importance her, he is mentioned with a knife in the previous song. But if it’s night, it’s “fall the night”, duh. In addition, the tree here is depicted as paralleling his confusion and their lack of direction in an image of again, pain. Lotta pain. Tripping bleeding stunning. Stunned by the sign and fearing what they say? Hm, see that could be the boy’s growth or the mother’s shame. But there is definitely a spark of the boy trying to discover his past, “discover what’s behind” and finding mystery as he wanders around in the dark (night?) falling in holes and going nuts losing control. So there ya go. Not much literal story happening here. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Inquiry of Ms.Terri Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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We resume with her life resuming in the village by the lake. There is a lotta wordplay in this song, I mean wordplay as in many lyrics are indicative of several things. I’d like to break it down ïŠ and correct the lyrics A hope (or home) removed, a life resumed right here. First off, this song suggests loneliness. She is looking at her life in depression. She is further off in the future, much after city escape remembering, perhaps regretting her actions. And the Priest and the Rosary, the buck and the bond between me and you has long since broken. First she is referring to a prayer she recalls and that jerk off priest. (the prayer has a lotta significance I feel, but im not catholic and don’t care to research a prayer). This is paralleled with the buck (currency/male figure/deer [oh yeah casey]) and bond (currency/connection/sex [oh yeah casey]). Then there is this relationship cut off, which may be with the father. Did she intentionally conceive because she loved him dear, but was torn by money and the priest? Or was it the priest? (someone talked about the smiling swine brother, I feel that is really intuitive and may be true, but probably not). A boy who�s grown, too short to see, a table unfolds, too tall to see. Grown short, haha, so the boy is innocent and boyish. Cool. It’s a “a tale unfolds too tall to be” if you ask me. Maybe she is sitting at a table or something (its mentioned later). But I think it’s her recognizing how this tale unfolding before her as her boy is growing (looking like the father and reminding her of her past) is so wild. A life once lived behind closed doors, the irony of a pensive heart. Past life, sex is awk. Irony of a pensive heart? I love you casey. PUN: “pen” in “pensive”, he’s writing this, writing a heart. When in reality, the heart is a fickle object that isn’t so easy to predict. Not to mention, this is Ms. Terri’s depression, her heart (or perhaps her flesh) desires some sort of man, but thought weighs her down. Thought for her son, plus thought revealing the truth of this life. Ms. Terri is truly growing up! Touch, taste, feel it ripping me down. A reprise, two times, that time, burn it to the ground. (two times? Other son… hm…meant to kill him but didn’t? hm…food for thought) she is overwhelmed by her past life basically. I can’t really get this part though.. The euchre(?) of mystery, the expiry of misery, the table turns, the sun long, the river bed, and he�s alone. “New degree/future read of mystery” maybe. Haha , not euchre. It’s something to do with the future and how long the misery will last. I love this part, haha I feel he is bringing meteorology into the discussion but that’s just me. Anyways, this part has a lotta meanings, nothing too literal I think. “table turns the son/sun along/long the river bed and he’s alone”. Few things. Shes angry, flippin tables. Wakes up son in the bed. Or life is moving along and he is alone, she worries for his future. Or life is playing out in some sort of cycle and she is seeing what stage he is in. Just combine all of those. The object of affection, conflicted by convictions of indecency, sorority, corrupted by impropriety. The rapidity of speech here really gets into her thoughts. She was the object of affection now he is. She misses the friendship and affection of before. But again! The pensive heart: she recalls the joys, but then remembers the “indecency”, then “impropriety” and all that stuff. 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. Now, it’s really getting MANtagy, who is the cavalier? Her son, or the father? That’s the point. She is seeing similarities. Boy’s growing and she “hopes of him”, the cavalier. Is that another man she wants in her life, but must give her attention to this inexperienced (love that) boy? Yeah probably. But she plays fake affection, and carefully lacks subjection, to a gentleman (processed?) twisted desires. (ooooh incest??? Hope not), maybe she doesn’t always love him, and that is her dilemma, should she have let him be taken away (kinda reminiscent of moses if you ask me). “carefully lacks subjection” this does two things I think. Perhaps there is another man here, who she uses as a father figure for the Boy as he grows. But she knows this “gentleman (prowler) twisted desires” is just that, a prowler. When she lacks subjection, I feel like she is resisting the urge to belong to him, or put him in power. Something like that, it is unclear. Touch, taste, feel it ripping me down. A reprise, two times, that time, burn it to the ground. Lolz he says “reprise two times”, two times. We dance around the room, my love Ill carry you, and Ill teach you how to “change that leading lady cabaret” We dance around the truth, my dear I lie for you, but when I lie down, Im simply lying to them too. Plenty of phun in this part. When you hear that last part of music, just think of girls dancing the cancan, that’ll help I think. She is putting up a ruse for the sake of her son! She has the opportunity to do good! It’s great. She also talks about the “leading lady” and she teaches him how to deal with a “leading lady” (leading later to, ms. Leading). This last lyric is one of the most important lyrics in the whole story and there is too much to talk about. |
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| The Dear Hunter – City Escape Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Oh Casey, I love your alliteration. So there is the song of the lake, we don’t necessarily have to perceive the acts chronologically as we can’t know the full plot until the full plot comes out. But I believe the Lake to be the homeplace of Ms. Terri and she is recalling the Lake for those 2 pretty minutes, until the reality of leaving the city hits her (in the form of the AWESOME SONG: “city escape”) So recall the flame leaving burning “down the sides” (of her womb walls? Ew) but the fire remaining. This is kindambiguous but I believe it to mean the burning (STD infested) life of a prostitute that she must leave suddenly. Oh Casey: so what are these “thoughts of mystery”? Dunno. What is going on??? Ms. Terri is fleeing the scene for keeping the child as her pimp (I think) doesn’t want that (indicated by her arduous escape requiring mystery and secrecy). Then, the song gets even more psychological as it gives the section with the chorus shouting “the trouble began, it would never end” , recalling a theme of the contradiction of (was kinda in TREOS stuff too) living despite the fact that you are kinda dying: “but the pulse remains”. In that situation, there is the literal depiction of dbags trying to trap her for “practical” lust, haha. But then there is the psychological aspect, for this seems to be in her mind as well as she starts to recognize the truth of her past life and how terrible her profession was. She turns to the river, going to the lake as her only option. Part 2 of the song: the narrator and his chorus become very prominent “Places, people, the stage is set” recalling the theme that all people have that there life is some sort of story and they are puppets (it comes later, trust me). I seriously love those lyrics he says so much though, “plagued” and “clawing”, they bring so many different ideas to mind about the nature of life and how Casey parallels it with prostitution, sex, rape, and the nasty taste that life leaves in your mouth. |
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| The Dear Hunter – Battesimo Del Fuoco Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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For one, this song should spark no debate... the lyrics are obviously suggestive. They indicate only one situation: the birth of the boy to Ms. Terri (mystery) from some rando who bought her sex and didn't pull out in time, which in turn caused her to leave. (btws, its about a "birth" berth is a pun that Crezendo used. I believe its something to do with sailing and it's just a kinda cool pun). The pun that his mom is a mystery is the point of the "failed life", as a boy he cannot know the truth of his mother so she leaves. THIS SONG IS AMAZING: it highlights a situation rich with substance: She's close to death because of this life. So the ability to be in a fatal physical state while physically close to a new life is fairly ironic. Then there is the contradiction repeated in the end, yes it is suggestive of the passion of sex that nearly put out her fire and killed her, but also sparked a new fire that saves her (her son is essentially her salvation from her situation, that is the beautiful conclusion of the song). Salvation in the sense that she then leaves all the "sins" of her past life to the Lake, and the fact that she has something to live for. The importance of this is in the pressure of the father as he wishes to cast her into "hell", referring to the irony of being in a Church/Brothel giving us the first glimpse of an important theme in all of Dear Hunter: the contradiction of judgement. So the dick that spawned the child with his dick is being a dick by trying to condemn her as a failure for going through the action of birthing the child instead of coat hangering the infant. Combined with the contradiction that he is in public casting her out to hell (probably in public): double contradiction (unless I'm overspeculating) In addition, there are two lyrics that have little to do with the situation, the image of the "tree", beyond the tree? Consider the family tree and not knowing your roots (aka the mystery of his birth), that kinda sucks. Not to mention, the tree coming from these roots is a symbol for the story beginning: this song the roots. I say this because every Act features a faintly burning tree on the front, so this combines the ambiguous contradiction repeated in the end of the song with the image of the tree. The fiercly fiery genesis represented in the burning wood of the tree is suggestive of his conception inflamed with the sad lust that characterizes prostitution. This in turn is suggestive of his life, (Evicted: "if you need a little cash, you sell yourself to everything" [not literally as a prostitute]) as he will be prostituted to the world. So who is saying all of this? Well the story, as far as i can tell is very Greek if ya know what i mean. This really reminds me of the alternate use of the chorus someone mentions intuitively above. I'd say that Crezendo is the narrator, not the boy. So what of the first phrase? "Believe you me, the price is clear" is this Crezendo recognizing the magnitude of the project he has taken up? Is this the Dime that it cost to bang a ho? Is this Ms. Terri and her knowledge of this risk? Dunno, can't answer that part. |
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