As through a glass darkly you seek yourself,
But the light grows weak while under Yggsdrasil.
A basket of eggs may you count your days.
Though your gut lies filled, only shells remain.

I can tell you've been drinking by the scent of your breath.
Another little sip, a bit deeper in debt.
You can rest your head in your wrinkled hands.
But when you awake, you're in another land.

In fields of green rolling on endlessly
You find a fallen nest where there is no tree.
Mark the brown furred hound tied to the mandrake root.
Dare you carve a face in that virtue food?

I can tell what you're thinking. I see it everyday.
I'll help you with your coat, see you on your way.
Sure you want to go walking on a night like this?
Look, there goes another one now. One day I swear they will not miss.

As through a glass darkly you seek yourself,
But the light grows weak while under Yggsdrasil.
A basket of eggs may you count your days.
Though your gut lies filled, only shells remain.


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    My Opinion

    I'm guessing this song is an allusion to excessive drinking and how it can wile away your money. "I can tell you've been drinking by the scent of your breath. Another little sip, a bit deeper in debt."

    it can also allude to how drinking can make you (if you let it control you that is) an empty husk or a shell of your former self. "Though your gut lies filled, only shells remain"

    probably take from a perspective of a bartender. "I see it everyday." The odd reference to the yggsdrasil (world tree) i don't really get how it ties in to the song.

    jchvoidon December 19, 2009   Link

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