| The Dear Hunter – This Beautiful Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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About the last bit...the band says the boy considers going to his half-brother's mother and pretending to be him (since she doesn't know of his existence, and they look alike). So he's talking about "forcing a smile" and pretending "we're" alive, none of this happened, the bullets removed themselves - then he'll have a home above the lake with his stepmother... Ending up with a summary of all the pain this would turn away from: his own painful "passages" (history), his brother's death, his father's cold calloused heart to the brother's death - he'll abandon his old life that he was at war to run away from anyways. The last line is a cynical narrator's aside about how naive the boy is to think taking his brother's identity will solve all his problems. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Tank Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The band says that Act III tells of "the boy" going to war to forget about his history...but he meets a previously unknown half-brother (from his military father's wartime fling). His brother is killed in battle and the boy is enraged that his father shows no remorse for his bastard son's death. In that context, I think he is comparing his father to the tank that killed his brother. A mechanical war machine, all about precision and dealing destruction around him, uncaring of lives lost as long as he continues his objectives. |
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