| Celldweller – The Last Firstborn Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Another thing: maybe the suicide was committed by the mother, and not by the father. Then again who knows. | |
| Celldweller – The Last Firstborn Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Oh I missed the line: "I see the darkness surround the shape on the ground the killer straight up and a body face down" He sees a dark shape but can't make out what it is (the darkness might also be the gas/the smoke). The killer that's going straight up is the carbon monoxide rising up and mixing in the air. As it rises, it reveals a body facing the floor. His dad. |
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| Celldweller – The Last Firstborn Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Wait a minute..... I have ONE MORE INTERPRETATION!! And this one is kind of playing at what someone else said and I think it might be the right one. I can't believe I missed this, and it would be great if someone could confirm this. How did Klayton's father die? And is he dead? The reason I ask is because I think this song IS about suicide. The suicide of his father. I will show this. (1) Oh man, I can't believe that you did what they said you did And to this day I've still gotta say that in my mind I question it I wish I knew what you had meant before you went and left me wondering to just an echo of your voice 'Listen...' (**Self explanatory: "I can't believe you really killed yourself.. And to this day I've still gotta say that in my mind I question it I wish I knew what your last words to me were before you killed yourself..**) (2) Now I wait to take my turn to bleed Like a kid playing with a razorblade And wonder if I have the balls at all or am I gonna be afraid. Where are you? What do you think? cause I'm not sure when knocking at death's door if I will be welcome in or be left alone outside (**Now I'm contemplating suicide or the prospect of it Like a kid playing with a razorblade And wonder if I have the balls at all or am I gonna be afraid. Where are you? What do you think? I'm not sure... if I kill myself what will await on the other side for me? [[REFERENCE TO HAMLET'S "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" SPEECH. READ THE INTERPRETATION.]]") (3) I guess there comes a point when you think to yourself This isn't worth it, it isn't worth it. And now I feel what you felt And now I feel what you felt inside brother And now I feel what you felt This isn't worth it, It isn't worth it (**Not sure who the brother is. Might be his brother. Might be the other firstborn.**) (4) I hear the sound of a heart from the shadow in the dark waiting for the poison to hit its mark (Listen - My son) I see the darkness surround the shape on the ground the killer straight up and a body face down (Firstborn - Last one) I hear the din of the screams, sorrow in streams the smell of farewell and gasoline (Listen - My son) I see a heart set free and my legacy hear a voice from a shadow that is beckoning me (Firstborn - Last one) (**The speaker hears the sound of a heartbeat that's coming from a shadow in the dark, waiting for a poison to take over. Then the speaker hears the noise of screams, tears, and the smell of gasoline, Then he sees a heart set free and his legacy and a voice that beckons him. Here is what it means: The shadow is his dad. The heartbeat is his dad's increasingly fast heartbeat as he sits in the car. The poison is carbon monoxide (smells like gasoline)-- his dad committed suicide by locking himself in his car, in his garage, and turning on the engine, and waiting for the poison to get to his heart. The screams and tears are either from those of the witnesses or from his dad or even from himself. His dad's heart is "set free" (it stops) and his legacy (his dad) is also set free (he dies), and the voice thereafter is the trauma itself. This image repeats in his mind just like it repeats in the song, and he can picture it again and again: the sights, the sounds, the smells)) (5) Live a life in hell through a mortal shell asphyxiating smell For a crime lifetime Imagination locked in a cell And to the other firstborn, I see the same scene that must play over in your mind and now how much more I'm sure it's fucked with your head just like it's fucked up mine. (**asphyxiating smell refers to the carbon monoxide, which asphyxiated his father to death. And this whole image that has been burned into his memory is like a life sentence. He is locked with his imagination in this cell, and he cannot imagine anything else but the suicide. And, the other firstborn, this is one I can't quite put a finger on.**) And the rest is self-explanatory. Hope you like this interpretation. Sorry for the spam. :o) TheTPMovement. Find me on YT. |
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| Celldweller – The Last Firstborn Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Oh, and I forgot to mention something important. Where he says "mortal shell" the shell in this case has NOTHING to do with a shell from war/from a weapons. The shell, in this instance, 100%, is referring to the human body. The human body is a mortal shell. Think about that. |
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| Celldweller – The Last Firstborn Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I will map out the song as clearly as I can and hopefully it makes sense. :-) Interpretation A ------------------ The song is sung from the point of view of a man, the Last Firstborn. Why is he called the 'Last Firstborn'? Because his father died fighting in war, and hence only had the one son: him. His father died for his freedom, but his father also committed sin: murder. And there we have the religious theme coming into play, which begs the big question that torments the speaker: "How can I reconcile the fact that my father -- a good man, my role model, my light -- fought and died for my freedom, for my life, but did so by committing murder?"... "Would he then go to hell?"... "And as I am fighting now, following my father's legacy, murdering other Last Firstborns who are also following their legacies, will I be allowed into heaven? Or will I be left alone?" "Do I commit to my father's cause so that he did not die in vain? I was, after all, his Last Firstborn, his only hope, his only continuation... Or do I leave it all behind? But if I do that, then why did my father die?!?! For what??" ****OR**** Interpretation B ---------------- It could be that his dad is *actually* a criminal who committed murder and is being taken away to jail for a life sentence, and the son struggles -- he cannot fathom the image of his father committing such a crime -- but he does sort of imagine it, and also think of himself in that position because he *is* his dad's legacy, his Last Firstborn, and he is now emotionally and psychologically scarred. And this state is threatening his morality and is potentially dooming him to mimic his father's actions. I mean, keeping both possibilities in mind... Comments are after each line in (****) Beginning --------- (1) Oh man, I can't believe that you did what they said you did (**I can't believe you killed people in a war, dad**) And to this day I've still gotta say that in my mind I question it I wish I knew what you had meant before you went and left me wondering to just an echo of your voice 'Listen...' (** before his dad left to go to war, he kneeled down and said: "Listen...**) (2) Oh man, I can't believe that you did what they said you did (**I can't believe you committed murdered, dad**) And to this day I've still gotta say that in my mind I question it I wish I knew what you had meant before you went and left me wondering to just an echo of your voice 'Listen...' (** before his dad left to go to jail, he kneeled down and said: "Listen...**) Now read through all of the lyrics two times, first keeping Interpretation A in mind, and then Interpretation B. :o) |
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