| Lamb of God – Insurrection Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"When the walls fall around you is when you begin to find, that the depths you once found have become now too hard to climb". I think this refers to confronting your inner demons, at least to me. For me Resolution was a very personal album, and I think for Randy too, this was an album (and a period in his life) where he really got to sit back and reflect on himself. Anyways, at least to me what this line is saying is basically is you've reached a point of soul searching or what have you where you've discovered some really dark places within yourself; how ugly of a person you can become, the awful things you or any person really is capable of. It's just this realization that you have the capacity to be an awful human being, and you've always sort of been searching for these "depths" whether they be depths of depravity, rage, or sorrow, you've basically hit rock bottom, even though you'd been in a sense searching for what rock bottom was. And now that you're here, you can't find yourself ever going back. You've kept yourself in a dark place for such a long time that it feels like it's impossible to ever go back. "You reconcile your pain in the loneliest refrain, and crawl tied and bound to the one thing you can't leave behind" You know the problem, you know the source of your pain, sorrow, rage, what have you. But at the same time, because it's the darkness you cannot crawl out of, it takes a form of your imprisoner, shackling you and making you crawl about like its slave. That darkness, for whatever reason, you can't leave it behind, you can't lose it. You know it's not good, but you just won't let it go. It's not necessarily become part of you, but more accurately it owns you. "And start over again this insurrection, the same reflection, perpetual And start over again and again and again this insurrection" Perhaps you have tried to move on from it, to rise against this darkness within yourself and show it you're stronger than it thinks, strong enough to break the holds it has on you. You've "revolted" against it who knows how many times, but each and every time you're back within your shackles, waiting to rise again. it's maddening, you go through the same cycle again and again and again, it seems like there's no end to the torment that you're caging yourself to. "A broken voice without a word to live by, eyes slammed shut watch the world go by," Although you can see, you choose not to, and although you can speak, you remain quiet. The darkness continues to eat at you and day by day you begin to enjoy less of the things that make up your life. In a sense, you've shut off your senses, and all you can feel is the slow rotation of the earth and the ticking of the great clock of time, as the years pass by you like a cold breeze. "it should have been way better than this you can't anticipate the things that you miss" and how long 'til you let it go, Master unreality nothing to show and in the end, Your life could have gone so much better. So many missed opportunities, so many failed chances, all because you've let this demon keep you down for so long, and all you can think about now, every single moment of every single day is where you messed up and how you could have fixed it or made it better. "top of the mountain of nowhere first in the line dying to get back here, you can't get back here." You've done it: you've found your darkest depths, and now here you stand, on a summit overlooking your entire life; every single step down you took to get to the dark place you are now, always with the darkness within standing by you, hands firm around the chains. You look at how your life could've been, and you're dying to go there, to go back before you made this dark venture down, but you can't. "First in the line to catch a glimpse of the shrine, the closest we ever got to divine irrefutable indisputable, infallible impossible to deny" I'll be honest, I'm not sure how to interpret this verse, I felt like from how I understood the lyrics, this was the one that stuck out and I couldn't put a pin on. |
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