| Baroness – Steel That Sleeps the Eye Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"steel that sleeps with the morningstar would that i could sin once more" steel that sleeps is steel that puts the eye to sleep forever, the skin of a grenade. an rpg. it sleeps until it detonates. the moningstar is venus which could mean at dusk or dawn. could sin once more is to see once more. "blades will sing over stone and field that their song might grace our fall" this makes total sense. blades are sharp steel fragments racing over the desert sand and rocks their song is the whistling sound of approaching shrapnel and that it might make grace the injury with honor "pallid limbs in the raven's thrall fracture sulphur honey skin" pallid limbs are injured pale dull lifeless extensions of a man injured in the line of fire fracture (injury) sulphur (burns, smoke from grenade in lungs) honey skin (soft fragile breakable skin) "waves are screaming abraxan hymns so that shoreline virgins cry" waves on the beach or waves of pain always scream abraxan hymns: because the tide itself is a duality. tide in tide out, shoreline virgins are those who are waiting, injured ready to be brought home from war. we first have to go to the shore - the persian gulf possibly? just a guess. "reel in place 'til the bastards take me away sober taste of the eye" reeling in place is mental reeling from tormenting pain of a serious injury, the bastards are taking the injured away from the fight that the injured wanted to fight back so they are bastards - but yet saviors as well. sober taste of the eye is just that - bleeding in windpipe and actually tasting blood and optic nerve bleeding, which is a sobering taste. I think this is a most powerful song in it's meaning and i hope i am not too far off. That is just what i hear knowing that Peter Adams was injured by an RPG in Iraq and took some time away it must be very relevant to the band, and they are now finally back playing together like they were when they first met. Either way you slice it great band indeed! |
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| Baroness – Swollen and Halo Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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my guess a song about war continues from steel that sleeps the eye "the steel that sleeps the eye needs nor tax nor toll that kings with men might lie swollen and halo'd" grenade fragments answer to no one and even a general might lie dead just the same as a private first class "her sweetest skin burns" rpg fragment in the eye burns. the grenade is a she and the metal steel shrapnel fragments is her skin. "now i've buried all the gold beneath my hide now i'll swallow breath with blood" not sure of the gold beneath hide, maybe becomeing hardened to war, swallow breath with blood. internal blood from eye wound going down windpipe (see sober taste of the eye) "of pole and anchor of stone and mitre of god and beast and wine and piss and bread and fish and man" humans, earth, and war - not fully developed "the virgin ground stains" blood spilled grounds of war "now we've wandered through the polestar's dusty floe and my crown is breath and blood" made it through the desert with wounds to take back home. a crown is an achievement gained by living through a war But i could be way off ; ) |
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