| Arena – The Hanging Tree Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is a difficult song for me to understand. The best I can come up is maybe the Hanging Tree is the forbidden tree in the garden of Eden. "Cling to the branch of a tree/That was waiting for/Something to preach/Someone to teach/The Word was the first/And the last to be heard/From the branch of the tree/It was praying for me to fall down" these lines support that theory the most. The forbidden fruit of the tree contains the knowledge but it was also the cause of temptation and sin which could be what they me by "it was praying for me to fall down" But the ending of the song when he is talking about a man and a boy in the light completely throws me off. anyone have any ideas |
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| Kamelot – Temples Of Gold Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Temples of Gold may be a reference to Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold can Stay" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nothing-gold-can-stay/ Basically saying all good things must come to an end. Kamelot has a slightly different approach. Kinda like a remembrance to the "gold" time in his life when he was with his love and everything was seemingly perfect. the line in the song "When day and night converge" really caught my attention and reminded me the poem. I first heard it in the book the Outsiders. In it the author compared sunsets and sunrises to the "gold" that Frost is reffering to. Which in itself is perfect for it, after all you can't have light without the darkness and when there is a sunset/sunrise it is the most beautiful time of the day. but it doesn't last forever. The sun must go down sometime. I wonder if Kamelot read that book? it's possible they may have got some inspiration from it. | |
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