| The Dear Hunter – In Cauda Venenum Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It can also mean "the worst is yet to come" O.o | |
| The Dear Hunter – Battesimo Del Fuoco Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think a lot of people have good points on this song, but I wanted to summarize my interpretation of it. This song is very much like a prologue to the play. It explains how a child was born to a woman, how her eventual death, led to the boy's life, and how her failed life led the boy to discover his father. That man being someone who had a romantic relationship (a flame) with her, but then cast her back to hell again (working as a prostitute). It then sets up how the story begins-- this woman was cleansed of her sins with the birth of her child. And then went to the lake and the river to raise him. The flame is gone, the fire remains-- means that though the romance is gone, the boy is still there. The boy being the fire. The song is called Baptism of Fire because of Ms. Terri being able to start anew with the birth of her child. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Lake and the River Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is my interpretation of it: Okay, so for the first part.. "Everything you'd live and die for Reasons leading you through here Perished matriarchal bonds Failing innocence of love When the world beckons your approach It swallows you whole" I think it's just saying that anything that was keeping the boy here (at the lake and the river) is gone and the world is calling him. His mother is dead, his innocence is failing. The last line though (which is repeated through the song) can currently be interpreted as meaning something similar to the phrase "it'll eat you alive". The world is a cruel place, and so it fits the theme of the song if not the entire story. "You'll believe what you're led to believe In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible Wait to see what you're meant to see The veil lifts when you expose your soul" The chorus for the song seems to say how the boy believed anything his mother told him. And just how most people blame things on their parents, it says "in the hands of ghosts we're never responsible". Saying perhaps how he'll never have to take responsibility for the things he does, says, or believes because he can blame it on the ghosts -- his dead mother. The last two lines are kind of implying what will happen as the story goes on. He'll discover things-- like what his mother was-- the "veil" of innocence that prevents him from seeing the world clearly will be lifted as he exposes himself to the world. "Prayed I would leave this place someday Joined to alarm from long ago now unconcerned Euphorically floating upon wax wings where is the sun? I still see her face; her beauty her grace Transfixed like a light in front of me It follows my soul And swallows me whole" I think this part is explaining how the boy felt when he was younger: he'd always hoped to leave, but they'd lived in fear hiding from the pimp. As time went on, though, he grew unconcerned about it. He was happy "floating upon wax wings", and the part that asks "where is the sun?" is saying like, he didn't see anything that could bring him down, how could anything go wrong? But then the song jumps to his memory of his mother, and how it "swallows me whole"--this line now takes a different meaning. The thought of his mother consumes him. So this part is just a contrast between how uncaring he was growing up and how things are now, how the thought of his mother is a cruel reminder of what once was. "You'll believe what you're led to believe In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible Wait to see what you're meant to see The veil lifts when you expose your soul" Same idea for this chorus as the last "Left, right, left, right... His branches reached so far before His leaves were bold extremities with great control Wasted along; he died alone" This part I believe is about the boys father. The "left right left right" could imply some kind of military connection. The lyrics seem to say then that he was a man of great power and that he died alone. I believe this part is what the boys mother told him about his father. That he was a powerful military man, but he died. We'd find later that none of this is true, except that his father is in fact a man of the military. "You'll believe what you're led to believe In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible Wait to see what you're meant to see The veil lifts when you expose your soul" This chorus goes with the lyrics before it. How his mother told him about his father, and how he'll believe it because that's all he was led to believe. And (as previously stated) that he'll come to know the truth as he exposes himself to the world. This kind of hints at Act III. "But the right hand hates the left and the sea's upset with the sky So we press on in spite of the spite Happiness is a knife when the worlds on its side and your minds on fire" I read somebody made the comment about "inner turmoil", and I think that's exactly what this part is describing. It compares two things who should work harmoniously, but are upset and hateful towards eachother. Despite this chaos, the boy presses on. I'm not so sure what the last line could mean though... I'd say it means that the only way he'll be happy is if he takes his revenge on the world. "Trying to find the trouble with the trouble I've found Begging my god to make the wheels go round Eat so much but I never get full Earth opened up and swallowed us whole" The first line of this supports my interpretation of the line before. Just that he's looking for trouble now. Sort of an eye for an eye idea. The next line, since he's gotten on the Delphi Express, could either mean he's praying to God that the train will start (since he's on it with a stolen ticket as mentioned in Evicted), or it could just mean that he's begging God to get his life started. Then the rest is saying he'll never be satisfied and how the world is opening up and sucking him in. The tone sounds like his bitter mindset as he sits on the train (I think somebody mentioned something like that before) And that's that. I could be totally off base, but I wanted to put in my two cents. |
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