| Megadeth – Family Tree Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[AhPawCohLypse:43890] the line “ The body stayed but inside the head The mind was on the run " That really is talking about how when a person is going through something horrible or traumatic the mind will blank out and start thinking about something else as a defense mechanism. So the body stayed and took the abuse but they were thinking of something else so they didn’t have to focus on reality. You hear stories from rape victims all the time and they almost always say something along the lines of “I couldn’t move or anything all I could do is think of somewhere else to be or think of something else” so that they didn’t have to think about the reality of what was going on. It’s also why people forget traumatic experiences until they are older and something happens and the memories are unlocked (hence the beginning line “Forgotten things remembered”) So the story is- a son was raped by a family member, he could only lay there and take it but each time he was thinking about somewhere else to take him away from reality and then when he was older suppressed memories resurfaced and he remembered |
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