| Thrice – Black Honey Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[onliberty:15565] I get really tired of the easy avenue that songs are always about 9/11, War on Terror, War on Drugs etc. So believe me when I say, I initially wanted to agree with you, especially because Thrice does tend to take a god-perspective on a lot of their music. However, I think in this instance there is quite a bit of tidbits that actually lean that way. The smashing through things while stinging back is the overarching idea, and while that isn't very strong on it's own (and can obviously apply in broad strokes to most struggles in life). There's two line's that seem to allude to the Middle East conflicts. First that you brought up, "So I'm cutting' that branch off the cherry tree. Singing this will be my victory" which I understood as what we originally came for wasn't going the way we wanted, so we ended up taking more than we needed (which again is vagueish). But the second example, "Then I See them coming after me And they're following me across the sea And now they're stinging my friends and my family And I Don't know why this is happening" would pretty closely illustrate that this conflict is taking place over seas, and that it's coming back and hurting us and our friends (whether thats allied countries, or specific people we know that are victims of attacks) and would be a pretty ideal example of what the song could be aiming for. |
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