| Clutch – The Regulator Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This one's got nothing to do with love. Sorry folks, that's you speaking, not the song. In terms of musical style, it starts off with an acoustic, western inspired guitar. You couldn't musically better convey dusty railroads, horses tied up outside bars, and collarless shirts without penning it by Ennio Morricone. So there's your historical setting. Some of the comments are correct: the regulator refers to an archaic clock where timing is regulated by a pendulum. Not an electronic clock, a pendulum driven clock. The longest mile also refers to the walk to a place of execution - in the historical context set by the song, a gallows. The narrator is partly blaming himself for his own crimes {"And though I feel like crying / I swear tonight I'll cry no more / How many times have I prayed / that I would get lost along the way"). The narrator moves on to blame the victim of his crimes for his opulence ("Is his wallet leather? Is his wallet fat?") and foolishness ("You should have closed your windows and got another dog / You should have chained up all the doors and switched up all the locks"). Interspersed with this is the narrator's current position, the night before his execution, inviting the listener to join him on his trip to the gallows the next day ("Dream with the feathers of angels stuffed beneath your head / Come with me and walk the longest mile"). So there you have it. Guy in wild west robs someone, gets caught, sentenced to death, and whines about it (gotta say, nicely done musically and artistically though). It's a metal song. Metal songs tend to do death and regret. Metal songs tend not to do the love thing. Pope, Catholic, bear, woods, etc. |
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