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Single Phial Lyrics
I have walked the earth so many times before your birth,
Today is only yesterday's tomorrow.
And as a Gardner in Eden it was i who sowed the seed then
I've come to reclaim this life you borrow.
Singing 'ring a ring o' rosies' for your final lullabye,
Have you any prayers to make before you wave your last goodbye ?
I bring 'a pocket full o' posies' - lay a wreath to ease my guilt,
As the light's go out forever not one drop of blood was spilt.
Chorus:
As yet unwritten history -
Once more i stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is Pandora's load.
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.
I'd have rather seen your face almost any other place
Still here we meet - always the way in this profession
And as i gaze into your eyes - i see the glimer within dies,
From ther moment i first make my dark confession.
How could i swear i would be there for you, until your dying day,
Certain in the knowledge that it's not that far away?
So you leave me sitting here bewildered as a new dead ghost,
While i try to justify destroying that which i love most.
As yet unwritten history -
Once more i stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is Pandora's load.
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.
The dark millenium is ending - final daze of the decayed
And a reign of tears is falling - it's the judgement eve parade.
Though I wash my hands a thousand times - still the guilt remains,
She stole my heart - I took her life ...
(And yet i never knew her name).
As yet unwritten history -
Once more i stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is Pandora's load.
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.
Out with a whimper - not with a bang.
And they all gathered round while the church bell rang.
Singing 'bring out your dead' they 'll stretch for miles,
To be bourne to their graves in single files.
Chorus:
As yet unwritten history -
Once more i stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is Pandora's load.
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.
Today is only yesterday's tomorrow.
And as a Gardner in Eden it was i who sowed the seed then
I've come to reclaim this life you borrow.
Have you any prayers to make before you wave your last goodbye ?
I bring 'a pocket full o' posies' - lay a wreath to ease my guilt,
As the light's go out forever not one drop of blood was spilt.
As yet unwritten history -
Once more i stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is Pandora's load.
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.
Still here we meet - always the way in this profession
And as i gaze into your eyes - i see the glimer within dies,
From ther moment i first make my dark confession.
Certain in the knowledge that it's not that far away?
So you leave me sitting here bewildered as a new dead ghost,
While i try to justify destroying that which i love most.
Once more i stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is Pandora's load.
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.
And a reign of tears is falling - it's the judgement eve parade.
Though I wash my hands a thousand times - still the guilt remains,
She stole my heart - I took her life ...
(And yet i never knew her name).
Once more i stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is Pandora's load.
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.
And they all gathered round while the church bell rang.
Singing 'bring out your dead' they 'll stretch for miles,
To be bourne to their graves in single files.
As yet unwritten history -
Once more i stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is Pandora's load.
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.
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This song is about a time traveller who deals death to humans to save the earth. One day he sees a girl and falls in love with her, and tries to offer her the antidote to the poison he's about to kill all the people in the area with. She think's he's crazy and gets outa there. He lives in regret and the guilt that he killed the woman he loves.
This song is about a time traveller who deals death to humans to save the earth. One day he sees a girl and falls in love with her, and tries to offer her the antidote to the poison he's about to kill all the people in the area with. She think's he's crazy and gets outa there. He lives in regret and the guilt that he killed the woman he loves.
That's an... interesting interpretation. Better than anything I can do.
I believe this song concern abortion and the main characters (Walkyier?) guilt and shame at making that choice.
I believe this song concern abortion and the main characters (Walkyier?) guilt and shame at making that choice.
'I have walked the earth so many times before your birth' Well, the child hasn't been born yet, still in the womb 'it was i who sowed the seed' The 'character'...you know...'sowed the seed'.
'I have walked the earth so many times before your birth' Well, the child hasn't been born yet, still in the womb 'it was i who sowed the seed' The 'character'...you know...'sowed the seed'.
'As yet unwritten history'
'As yet unwritten history'
the child being as yet unborn 'Once more i stride the lightning road' Playing God perhaps? 'Identity a mystery ' 'She stole my heart - I took her life ...' '(And yet i never knew her name).' This I believes emphasises my....theory. The child hadn't been yet named....
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'Identity a mystery ' 'She stole my heart - I took her life ...' '(And yet i never knew her name).' This I believes emphasises my....theory. The child hadn't been yet named.
Perhaps many of references to killing many people is a representation of his guilt expanding and making him feel as murderer - perhaps that he is seeing the child in his mind everywhere he looks.
'I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial'
Here Phial is a play on words - It also could mean 'Single fail' as apposed to just mean a medical container (which again reinforces this idea of a child and abortion.)
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I also saw it as a song about abortion.
I also saw it as a song about abortion.
It´s as Chard121 said, it´s about a genocidal time traveller who kills to make the world a better place, hence the referances to a pocket full of posies and a single phial. He unleashes a plague upon a population for whatever unfathomable postive reason. Then he falls in love, however the woman he loves naturally thinks he´s mad and refuses the antidote so dies along with everyone else. It´s based of a short film which is on youtube, Der Gartner I believe...which is why in the original version you can here german in the background. Like all the songs on the Answer Machine? it seems to refer to the viewpoint of one of many diverse persons. Great song though.
I had always thought it was a personification of the black death (bubonic plague), hence the references to posies and ring-a-ring o' rosies (that Ring Around The Rosie nursery rhyme is about the plague too). Perhaps we should as Martin.