| Purity Ring – Lofticries Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Here are my thoughts, apologize if I repeat anyone. I think this song is about a sexual abuse as a few others did and hopefully I can strengthen that argument. Everything can be interpreted in any number of ways though: /Bring, bring the thunder /and the loud, loud rain /Lead our woes asunder /'neath the proud, proud veins ---The thunder and rain signify a powerful change that has occurred or that the brother/sister wish to occur, this change will end their woes. Not sure on "proud veins" /Bead-weighted chests with lofticries /Lofticries with trembling thighs /Weepy chests with weepy sighs /Weepy skin with trembling thighs ---When I hear bead weighted chest I envision that the trauma and sorrow felt by the abused girl (in her heart/chest) feels to her like there are weighted strings pulling on it. Keeping in theme with the names of other songs on the album that are two words "creatively" smushed together, I see lofticries as lofty cries. Lofty can mean tall, "of imposing height" and her screams could certainly be tall, loud and carry over quite a distance. Trembling => she is scared in anticipation Thighs => clearly a sexual body part /You must be hovering over yourself /watching us drip on each other's sides /Dear brother, collect all the liquids off of the floor /Use your oily fingers /Make a paste, let it form ---Her abuser is hovering over himself because of the pleasure he finds in having his way with her, in owning her. I cant decipher the rest of this verse, it seems to me as if the author is just using catch words like "liquids" and "oily," words that catch our attention. Making a paste and letting it form is a practice few of us take part in today, I have a hard time thinking it could be a symbol for something else, I also have a hard time thinking of any paste or salve made from liquids picked up off the floor with oily fingers. This seems like catchy filler to me /Let it seep through your sockets and earholes /into your precious, fractured skull /Let it seep, let it keep you from us /Patiently heal you /Patiently unreel you ---This verse seems most obvious to me. It begins the second half of the song and is powerful just like the beginning verse. The abuser has clearly been killed, "fractured skull" implies he died of blunt trauma to the head. He is buried in the ground and mother nature will begin to reclaim his body aka worms, water, bateria, fungi will begin to seep into his body through the aforementioned orifices and decompose it. "Let it keep you from us" - His death will keep him from abusing them "Patiently Heal/Patiently unreel" - Implies that in death he will be freed of whatever mental illness he suffered from that made him want to abuse the children. Nature will slowly unreel him, or undo him, decompose him I'm sure there are many interpretations, but this is what I imagine, it seems to match the tone of the song, but who knows, when the artist finally tells us what it is about, we might all be wrong |
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