| OSI – Home Was Good Lyrics | 9 months ago |
| Honestly my first interpretation was that it might be about assault, sexual abuse, or other kinds of verbal or nonverbal abuse against the innocent within the home. How the sounds of it hammer the walls, how it might be heard over the phone or administered over the phone, literally swallowed by the bed whether that's physical traces or the general trauma of it...I know when I've been very close to someone and slept with them in a certain place, that place becomes a difficult place to be when they're no longer present, it becomes infused with that spirit or feeling in a way (associations). The memories of it haunt the halls, turning a normal house into something horrifying for someone who lived through that stuff in it. Not sure on all the lyrics but that's the feeling I got personally. | |
| Karnivool – Umbra Lyrics | 10 months ago |
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@[TobyTheSlave:53157] absolutely agree with your take, I had something to add while listening as well. When reading over lyrics it made me question who the narrator was and who they were talking to, it doesn't seem like they're talking to someone external, so I thought maybe it was an interaction between the subconscious tendencies and the conscious self, but the title being Umbra, meaning Shadow, made me think it's probably addressing the shadow self. Just hard to tell when the shadow is talking and when the conscious self is talking, since you could look at it both ways in many of the parts. The earlier parts make me think it's the Shadow self speaking to the self, but when I look back at it I feel the opposite. Like this person is struggling to face other people, letting the shadow paint them and determine the lens through which they view the world. Course could argue it's the shadow being painted, but it makes more sense that the narrator is being affected by their inner conflictions and doubts, more than the other way around. Even saying, "well I dont feel so safe here..." alone in a room with themselves, with their darker elements tormenting them most likely in a depressive cycle. The luck part could be either one, since the conscious, waking self could be saying their bad fortunes are based on luck and the shadow is saying...what if it wasn't luck? What if your actions and the actions of others had direct consequences that you are now experiencing. Essentially "wake and own up to your own mistakes." But the conscious self could be the one telling their inner self that, 'hey...stop telling me this is luck when I know better." I think it works both ways simultaneously. Maybe that's why it's so hard to figure out, because they're both the same person arguing with themselves at the end of the day. |
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