| Dir En Grey – Hydra (666) (English) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Alright, I'm going to try and interpret this song by breaking it down piece by piece... sorry it got super long. I'm interpreting this song as a warning against falling into your own persona and losing yourself behind it. Here's a couple things that I think match up with that idea. It's strange that I was looking into these two things, and here they are in this song's lyrics: -- The kiku flower is also known as the Chrysanthemum, which is a symbol for spirituality and perfection/order. It can also represent the chakra of the heart; supposedly if you study/meditate on the beauty of a chrysanthemum, it allows you to 'blossom' the beauty within your own heart, opening your heart chakra. -- If this song is related to 'HYDRA' from the MACABRE album, then the "SID" in this song is referring to Sid Vicious (of the Sex Pistols). Sid ended up dying from a fatal overdose of heroin after a long history of abuse. The drugs caused Sid to lose his sense of self and he fell prey to trying to live up to the last part of his stage name Vicious ("All you have is just a facade" and "Temptation just ate him up"). In the end, Sid became a bit of a sad warning against falling too far into the 'rockstar' lifestyle. I'll go out on a limb and say Kyo isn't totally against Sid Vicious, just some of the choices he made in his (short) life, especially the part of falling prey to his own facade and losing everything outside of it that made him 'Sid Vicious.' -- The part about "it" not being on [Sid's] chest and "scarred up mannequins" could be referencing the idea that the scars Kyo has on his chest from self-injury he views as simply a way to get his idea across, and that the damage he inflicts to his body is equal to that of a mannequin. Maybe he doesn't think Sid was holding to his own ideas that strongly, so that's why he wouldn't have "it" on his chest. -- I'm just taking a wild guess with the "MONA LISA" part that because of the painting's famous inscrutable expression and how the eyes supposedly are staring at you no matter where you stand in the room, that part of the song could be talking about how people will watch you passively with an expression that is cold and difficult to understand, and you will never really be able to escape them. -- I'll guess the "You turn your head and call this freedom?" and "You crawling on your elbows looked so artistic" could be alluding to blind worship of this persona/facade. -- "The lullaby [ ... ] I can't hear it [ ... ]" and "Can't sleep" parts I think tie into the blind worship part because Kyo feels he can't just give in to what others expect of him and what he expects of himself and his persona. I'm afraid I have no idea what the 666 and "DEAD BORN" parts of the song mean. Temptation and being unwilling to fight for your 'self' during your lifetime? TL;DR: In the end, if you try too hard to live up to the expectations of others (Mona Lisa) or the persona you think you "should" be (Sid Vicious) or begin blindly following the persona of another person, you'll wind up losing your sense of self, looking like a fool, and "Everyone laughs at you behind your back." |
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