| The Contortionist – Monochrome (Pensive) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song is very straightforward as observed by the lyrics. The album is about a friend of the singer and band who passed away after struggling with addiction and the loss of his mother. This song provides resolution and insight on the singers role and the impact it had on him with the experience. The album starts very vague and filled with metaphors but as the album progresses it becomes more and more direct to the listener until this song, at the end of the album basically comes out and says everything the singer is feeling with no minced words. In the previous song (Return To Earth) he mentions the subject of the album (his friend) was skin and bones. The last line in Monochrome: Pensive, Mike Lessard writes "all that's left is just all your bones" which says two things. One literally that his friend is dead and he is no longer there outside of his physical bones, and Two that everything metaphorical has been stripped away and the song has been written very literal as opposed to previous tracks. |
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