| Oh, Sleeper – The Marriage Of Steel And Skin Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I essentially view this song as a stance on rape justice. The song begins with "the one we followed has fallen to our foe" (or Eve listening to the serpent). However, the singer acknowledges this is no reason to "let ruin all your thirsting tongues" (use women to satiate one's carnal desires). The "tallies", or number of women who have fallen prey to the rapist, grows but there is no one to pass judgement. Therefore, the singer feels "the Kingdom" has ordained him to stand up for those women whom have been raped ("standing for the fires of the victims left to die"; "and I'll stay until their coward's on a pyre burned alive"). The singer comes home to find his daughter (whether he means his actual daughter or 'daughter of God' is of little difference) defiled and the bed covered in blood. He demands she show him where the man who did this lives so he can personally deal him justice. There he will "marry a blade to his throat" until he has removed the head from the rapist's shoulders. |
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| Oh, Sleeper – The End Of A Dark Campaign (The Amputation) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Can anyone figure out the line "and a sparks birth could not be heard". By spark does he mean an ember coming to life from a burning fire? Or does it have some religious significance? Otherwise, I think theBush hit it right on the head. This soldier has been hit and lays "open and spilling" screaming for help. The medic (the red-crested figure) sits indifferent to his cries. Could this be God giving the soldier a lesson? Through great pain and perseverance you will find God, not by having every wound attended to and cared for. All the soldier's scars, as he later realized, are over his chest. This not only symbolizes that the Devil destroys by attacking the heart but that the soldier never turned his back to the enemy. The blood that was once merely pooling around his boots becomes a lake and the soldier is submerged in the Claret (red wine). Beneath the surface of the lake the war between Heaven and Hell raged on until the soldier believes he has met the Eye (a universal symbol representing spiritual sight, inner vision, higher knowledge, insight into occult mysteries). Once the soldier has seen the Eye and all that accompanies it, God reaches into the lake and and returns the soldier to the war between Heaven and Hell ("the storm"). With new-found insight, this soldier proclaims one must either charge and fight the enemy or lay dead- you are of no use. He screams, "Another patch won't do!" to signify that any holes in the line of defense could cripple Heaven's forces. To other soldiers, the main character tells them to take his heart and "begin this run." The main character is urging the others to see what he has seen, take the love and courage that he has, and charge the enemies of God. |
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