| The Black Dahlia Murder – The Grave Robber's Work Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Actually, if you read/listen carefully then it seems Trevor is hinting at the fact, that the Grave Robber doesn't just rob the dead, but also kills people to get the goods, if necessary. The most important line that supports this assumption is, "The guilt is murder!". You can take that line as a statement or a confession. As a statement it would mean, "I just rob the dead, I'm not the bad guy. Those who kill others are!". As a confession it would mean "I feel guilty because I killed for the goods." I think it's meant as a confession because alot of the lines make more sense and the song is much more tightly put together this way. For example, the lines in the second verse where the song builds up to the climax until the guitar-solo starts... "Will you follow me into the dark?" - He obviously lures people to dark places and tries killing them. "Come and dance with me." - "Dance" as a common metaphor for a fight to the death. When the guitar-solo then starts, they pretty much fight against each other. Also, the whole "Deny! Deny! Deny!" thing gets a deeper meaning. He feels haunted because of the murders not for robbing the dead. Begging the gods for mercy makes more sense too. The church bells ringing at the end of the song could actually stand for the funeral of his latest victim killed during the song. Just my 2 cents... PS.: The punctation in the lyrics are completely off on some places... |
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| The Black Dahlia Murder – To A Breathless Oblivion Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's obviously about suicide. The more important question is whether or not Trevor is trying to make a statement regarding this topic. I happen to think that pretty much all of the lines represent an internal monologue of various persons either commiting suicide or those who intend to do so. The protagonist is obviously the guy who hung himself because he is mentioned in the first and third verse. The interesting/weird thing is, that he describes it from a kind of "out of body" - third person - kind of view. As if he had already hung himself and now watches his own body and in the third verse he sees how someone finds his body. However, there are those two lines that seem to be important and kind of stick out from the rest. "No one can truly touch another parallel..." "Pointless - fumbling - sad mistake..." Either Trevor breaks the monologue here and tries to make a statement of his own or this is still the monologue of the guy who hung himself. He seems to regret it in the end 'cos he wasn't able to reach the afterlife(or whatever he hoped for) and now seems to think of the suicide as a "pointless, fumbling and sad mistake". The chorus of the song is a monologue too and supposedly stands for the thoughts of people thinking about the act of suicide. When you think about it that way, it makes it pretty awesome that Trevor endlessly repeats the chorus at the end of the song until both his voice and the song fades out, 'cos every single one of these chorus blocks could stand for a person who is commiting suicide right now, at this very moment. This song could have easily been the last song on the album with the dramatic ending it has. I bet they thought about doing it that way, but maybe felt that it would have been too depressive. Instead we got "Warborn" depicting a war scene which was pretty awesome too. If you take all what I said for granted, you could take this interpretation even further to why they ultimately picked a war scene to end this album.... |
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