| Periphery – Mile Zero Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Oh, and I forgot to add, but at the very end of the song, it sounds to me like a pill bottle is being dropped and hitting the ground. Open to interpretation.. | |
| Periphery – Mile Zero Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I will start by saying I can tell this is a very personal song for Spencer, so I'll try to tread lightly as I interpret his lyrics. In Periphery's lyric sheet that comes with the album's booklet, "RIP Shawn Bennet" is printed at the end of the lyrics to this song (as it is here). In Periphery's "Album Thanks" section of the booklet, Spencer says, "Shawn Bennet, I miss you dearly and would not be here right now had it not been for you." Upon googling the name, I came across Spencer's FormSpring on which someone asked him to elaborate on who Shawn Bennet was, to which Spencer replied, "I would rather not. that's a personal part of my life that I only talk with close friends about." Now, investigations aside, I will proceed with my personal interpretation of the song in somewhat of a line-by-line analysis... "No way to make amends for the time behind the door" - hiding something/keeping to himself? "How could he give up?" - did he "give up" on his life and take it himself? I feel the chorus is relatively self-explanatory, however I did notice a recurring theme with "shot" and "slug" pointing to firearms, but I'll leave that alone. "You left to join with the stars and I cannot shake this off my chest" - does he feel in some way responsible? "Open gut on the floor" - Literally? "Left to journey alone But I can find my way back home" - Though hard, he will make it on his own As a side note, this is one of my favorite songs off the album because of the emotion that's packed into it, and it has given me new respect for Sponce, both as a musician and as a person. Makes me "love that $#!†" even more... |
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