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| Protest the Hero – Goddess Bound Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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And thus begins the climax of the album, in which our goddess is murdered by none other than us. Drawing parallels to The Dissentience, we throw the meat of our past to the dogs and abolish the way of the past, just as people did whilst overthrowing their leader, and just as they were, we will be forgot. We are but rocks in the great mountain of existence, and we do not matter in the least in the long run, despite our hope of life outside the pine box. Meaning exists everywhere, even in something as minute as my lungs or my eye, or in any human being on this earth. Pulling back to Wretch, our humble religious fellow believes he can be forgiven for all his sins in a simple act of prayer to his god, and his pent up lust turns to deranged fantasy, which spells out the nature of his god, one who is self created, and will exhibit any characteristics one wishes it to have. The final line also brings up wretch, as the goddess ("love") begets (gives birth to) the irony that those who believe in life beyond death fear death, and see life as unfinished even if they "believe" they will carry on. |
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| Protest the Hero – Spoils Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Words=Bad is one way to put it, but look at it this way. Previous to this we are exposed to 2 divine figureheads in the album, some sort of god (represented as kings in On Conquest and Capture which by the way, ends after Bone Marrow, the middle of the album is untitled) and Flidias, who was only referred to by name in Limb From Limb. That said, the "Anima Animus" statement is possibly the most important line on the entire album, as it clearly differentiates the two opposing forces. To quote from Wikipedia "In the unconscious of the male, this archetype finds expression as a feminine inner personality: anima; equivalently, in the unconscious of the female it is expressed as a masculine inner personality: animus". So, the true distinction made between the benevolent goddess of nature, existence and reason and the malevolent god of man's true ignorance as abstraction. Holding to no doctrine or objective views of reality is the only way to be true, and to "deflesh the world" or to remove it of all preconceived ideas made by us as humans is the only way to see reality in it's purest form. So yeah, Words=Bad would be one way of saying it. This song also sets the stage for Isosceles, where human ignorance overthrows the goddess of reason just as the people killed Shah-Jahan in C&C, which explains the title. |
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| Protest the Hero – The Dissentience Lyrics
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I think when you're looking at this song you have to visualize it in the context of the whole album and the message it's trying to convey as a whole. From my perspective, the song would appear to be about a revolution or gathering of sorts that's in it's conceptual stages. The thing the people are coming together to burn is perhaps in reference to some sort of monarch or power, and the nights spent in thought and conversation refer to the group mentality and their desire for change. The ash metaphor Arif uses would appear to describe those deceased in previous revolutions, but I think more specifically it talks about former leaders or dictators overthrown. The ashes spilled from the urn spill all over the tomes of history, and the person boasting in the present (or the "regular") will be put in charge after the monarch is dismantled, only to be burned again when people get sick of him. Also, a line that seems to come out of nowhere at the end of the song holds meaning in context if you've heard the whole album. "Somebody's little girl" may be in reference to Flidias, who appears first by name in Limb From Limb. "The monsters in her bed" are most likely a metaphor for man in general, as we were clearly the force in Bloodmeat, (the end of the song indicates a hypocritical lust for revenge). The things she reads could be talking about the tomes or books read twice brought up earlier. If this is the case, then it sets the stage for the eventual "bound and gagged" portion in the third act of the album, when man arises to muffle the goddess of truth and reason( or hack her into Bloodmeat I suppose), symbolized by Flidias again. This is why I love this album so much, the meaning is very complex, and deciphering it requires a sense of entirety, you have to know how each song fits in to really get it. |
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