MUSIC FOR CARNIVORES

The lyrics, the song title, the album title, the life of the songwriter, and the New Testament all seem to be coming together here.

The album title "Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad" is a message from songwriter Attrell Cordes to his son, and apparently conveys that this world is so hard to live in that a parent should be apologizing to their child for introducing them to it.

That sentiment is consistent with the lyrics which tell a person that they will receive no relief from the cruelties of the world, the suffering they experience at the hands of deceivers, pretenders, and other injustices. The person who is being addressed will seek peace, and forgive hurtful people, but for all this trouble, will "get nothing" (no reward). The lyrics themselves do not clarify who is being addressed, but there are some hints here and there (angel, crucify, forgive) that it could be Jesus, or a person who is being compared to Jesus. The album title might purposefully allow for an interpretation that the songwriter (Dad) is speaking to his child (named Christian) while it also might purposefully extend to the Holy Father (Dad = God) and Jesus (Christ[ian]).

The song title introduced what is presumably another metaphor: Carnivores are the hurtful people whose actions consume (harm) others.

The repeated line that is further more ambiguous, "Then it comes to you" might likely indicate that the realization that the world is this way is the "it" that "comes to" (becomes known to) the addressee. And that, too, is a bitter realization, that the world is so unfair.

Attrell Cordes's own father died young during Cordes's childhood, and Cordes was already suffering from poor health in early adulthood. The family history was at least as bleak as these lyrics, and Cordes himself died young. There's a lot of pain here in the facts and the lyrics, but a beauty in the music.