| Clutch – The Regulator Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Apologies for the triple posting, I've noticed a few comments under notion the song's about infidelity. While I can't argue against that, I can present this. The only lines that definitively link to that are these, "Is his wallet leather? Is his wallet fat? For now a year later its got you lying on your back.". References to the word "home" can mean many things besides a traditional house or structure. It could mean a country, state, neighborhood, or any number of locations that'd represent a home to someone. It's a loaded word. As for "lantern trimmed low burning". A lantern's wick is trimmed low to produce less light when lit "burning" much like we use dimmer lights today. While not strictly speaking, a lantern is nothing more than what'd be a modern day light bulb. At times light bulbs symbolize an idea, often illustrated above the heads of cartoons. For the sake of presenting a counterargument, this dim lantern setting the mood for a love affair could also represent a building idea. An idea perhaps building within our home, or what have you. The line "And though I feel like crying, I swear tonight, I'll cry no more", certainly could be the devastation one would experience when catching their lover with another. However the line also conveys acceptance. The Kubler-Ross model, known as the five stages of grief, comprises a coping process that's seen after a tragedy or loss occurs and's often accompanied by fear. The stages are; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance "respectively". It so happens this model was published in a book titled "On Death and Dying". I hardly find that coincidental. Finally, lines like "Come with me and walk the longest mile.", "You should have closed your windows and got another dog.", and "You should have chained up all the doors and switched up all the locks." don't in anyway make sense to a situation of adultery. More so clearly therein these lines is a feeling of drudgery, seemingly like an foreboding event or object that's yet come to pass. All speculative of course. |
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| Clutch – The Regulator Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The song's about time and its relation to death. Time's the longest mile. Some would like to dream that their time in life be sped along. Visions of heaven and angels throughout a eternal afterlife seem a reprieve from life's trials to most. Death well, no amount of chains, switched locks, shut windows, or dogs will keep it from you. In themselves, time and death embody one another. Their principle traits shared. Hence the regulator IS a pendulum. Due a bout of irony they've similar connotations within the song, but regulator in its simplest form's a person or thing that regulates "controls" an object. Regulators maintain order, depended on whether it's its own perspective or another's as to how order's deemed proper. As such, with every swing of the pendulum, a moment in time passes while bringing death nearer. There's no greater regulator than death, it controls time while time maintains its personification. A truly chilling, yet poetic verse that happens to be a favorite song of my own. |
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| Clutch – The Regulator Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The song's about time and its relation to death. Time's the longest mile. Some would like to dream that their time in life be sped along. Visions of heaven and angels throughout a eternal afterlife seem a reprieve from life's trials to most. Death well, no amount of chains, switched locks, shut windows, or dogs will keep it from you. In themselves, time and death embody one another. Their principle traits shared. Hence the regulator IS a pendulum. Due a bout of irony they've similar connotations within the song, but regulator in its simplest form's a person or thing that regulates "controls" an object. Regulators maintain order, depended on whether it's its own perspective or another's as to how order's deemed proper. As such, with every swing of the pendulum, a moment in time passes while bringing death nearer. There's no greater regulator than death, it controls time while time maintains its personification. A truly chilling, yet poetic verse that happens to be a favorite song of my own. |
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| Clutch – The Regulator Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The song's about time and its relation to death. Time's the longest mile. Some would like to dream that their time in life be sped along. Visions of heaven and angels throughout a eternal afterlife seem a reprieve from life's trials to most. Death well, no amount of chains, switched locks, shut windows, or dogs will keep it from you. In themselves, time and death embody one another. Their principle traits shared. Hence the regulator IS a pendulum. Due a bout of irony they've similar connotations within the song, but regulator in its simplest form's a person or thing that regulates "controls" an object. Regulators maintain order, depended on whether it's its own perspective or another's as to how order's deemed proper. As such, with every swing of the pendulum, a moment in time passes while bringing death nearer. There's no greater regulator than death, it controls time while time maintains its personification. A truly chilling, yet poetic verse that happens to be a favorite song of my own. |
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