| The Birthday Massacre – Divide Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[zlloyd1:5848] Don't quote me on this but I believe the song is a direct reference to Perseus who was thrown into the ocean in a chest with his mothers. I'm assuming that's the tides of glass. They were both thrown in an attempt to kill them as it was foretold Perseus would grow up to kill his grandfather. Upon arriving to the city a man tried to marry Perseus' mother and pretended to marry another women to rid himself of Perseus as he was in the way of the marriage to his mother. as he had no money he was sent on a quest to bring the head of Medusa. I think this associates to the part about dances with snakes, however it is also possible its a reference to when Medusa's blood falls and creates deadly serpents. As he ventures into the quest his siblings Athena and Hermes come to his aid and bestow him with shoes to allow him to fly a scythe and a shield to avoid looking into Medusa's eyes, so the river running black and green might be a reference to the river Styx. In order to find Medusa's location he steals the eye of the Graeae who are her sisters and slays her. On his journey back home he saves and marries Andromeda who later dies and becomes a star, which i believe is where the dead will stare in joy and despair part is playing into the mythology. He finally returns and ends up killing the man still trying to marry his mother and is then banished as king but it is his actions that bring the end result of the prophecy his grandfather was foretold. | |
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