| Baroness – March To The Sea Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Overall I see it as a really precious and sad song, a song in which he sings to a lost friend (probably, a dead friend). > There was an anchor > There was a silver-sweet refrain It starts with a lament: "you fool, there was hope, there was a solution". The anchor and the silver-sweet refrain stand for what could have helped this person: help from others, an illusion of being better in the future. The next relevant verses: > And what you did next was second-to-none > You really let us down > You tied yourself up > And jumped in the sea > Never to come home It is unclear of this person committed suicide or simply suffered an accident, but the "never to come home" suggests this person passed away. > Valium > You left me all alone > Tell me when > I will be whole again Valium is a well-known anti-depressive. May it be that Valium helped the living overcome their loss? Then, it could also be thought that they feel that by overcoming their loss, they are giving up on their friend. "valium, you left me alone". Valium, with your help I got through the death of my friend, and so i think, because i'm feeling like a betrayer and that doesn't sound like being healed at all. The second paragraph "there was a whisper..." may indicate that the voice with the POV is self blaming itself. There was signs, and we failed to catch them. Just before finishing, the song goes to valium and morphine, and introduces heroin as the key of whatever that had happened. "Where did you take my friend?" The reference in the title to Civil War campaign is hard to assess. It may refer just to the struggle itself, but Sherman's March to the Sea was a success, and it may indicate that perhaps the POV sees a self-destructive conduct in this lost friend, a self-destructive conduct that had eventually succeded. As I said, a precious but horribly sad song. |
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| Corrosion Of Conformity – Long Whip / Big America Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think these lyrics are pretty straightforward. As many people he is astonished as how easy it was for some wall street wolves to get more money than one can possibly earn just working. They show up in TV talking about how many millions they've won/lost today. He (easily) qualified this behaviour as something reprehensible while notices the hipocrisy all around ("good thing he knows his bible"). Definitely, in the lyrics this behaviour is a crime and the author advocates for the worse punishment available. That's the second paragraph: > Stick his ass in hell ever better in in this tiny cell > Make him understand the meaning > Of these words they try to preach just to keep them out of the nations reach > I guess it's all for the better He also recalls you from the bible above ("these words they try to preach"). Then he starts questioning about how the Wall Street stuff impacts his own life. This happens in the chorus > Hey hey hey what's that game you play > Will it make me richer? It varies from richer to poorer/poor man in chorus repetitions along the song. The author then narrates that as a young man he had not a lot of options, so he enrolled in the army, and that he is now a condecorated hero. But war leaves traces, and as a veteran he was about to get crazy, and "did some crime". At this time of the song the theme get clear: the author sees some similarities between the Wall Street wolf and the veteran-turned-into-crime. They both try to hide their makings, but the latter couldn't possibly do that for the whole life. (The song doesn't explain if it is due to sanity, or because law enforcement would possibly prevent that behaviour if it spans in time.) At the same time, we are used to see how infrequent it is for a thief-in-a-suit to be stopped by law... |
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| Corrosion Of Conformity – King Of The Rotten Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think there is some insecurities reflected in the lyrics. All these questions are focused in assessing the fidelity or allegiance of the one who receives them. Would you be my ally if I had nothing (seriosly, king of anything rotten isn't a great title)? Would you be it if I had a high position or aspiration? |
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