| Archive – Hatchet Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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For me the song is about guilt. Deep, irrepresible guilt and the desire to expiate a fault. "Every time I see you I've got the urge to cry I'm holding back the tears 'Cause I know the reason why" She now that he commit a terrible act and think that she must pay but the punishement don't come. The videoclip suggest someone incapacitated or in coma that she come to visite relentlessly. The tape with a sort of cardiogram record, a hand on a chair with a tube... She look at his eyes and expect a reaction but nothing come and their guilt are worst that any imaginable pain. Like used to say "No worse hell that the one prepared by ourself". What is the fault ? A accident that she survived ? An argument that turn terrible wrong ? A suicide after a separation ? At the end the fire consume all and she look at the scene. At the background we hear a sound like a lifesupport alert and the "cardiogram" become flat. Have she decided to put her lover out of his misery ? Maybe. She remain with his own hell of unpaid guilt... Moving song and hard theme. One of the best of Archive. |
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