This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Did you not grant quarter to the daemon, giving treatment to its wounds?
And would you not consider it unnatural to be born outside the womb?
We eagerly await your response and your best defense.
La curandera is the young girl
In a linen dress of white.
She dances on black sand in the night
In her linen dress of white.
Let us vote to dunk the witch in the river Styx and photograph the lye.
So in the shadow of Cerebus her spirit will reside.
La curandera is the young girl
In a linen dress of white.
She dances on black sand in the night
In her linen dress of white.
BIRD IN THE FIRE, MOUTHFUL OF SAND
KING OF THE BRIAR, MOUTHFUL OF SAND
THE SCALE AND FEATHER, THE LOCK AND KEY
THE LORD OF WEATHER, THE BEAST AT PEACE
And would you not consider it unnatural to be born outside the womb?
We eagerly await your response and your best defense.
La curandera is the young girl
In a linen dress of white.
She dances on black sand in the night
In her linen dress of white.
Let us vote to dunk the witch in the river Styx and photograph the lye.
So in the shadow of Cerebus her spirit will reside.
La curandera is the young girl
In a linen dress of white.
She dances on black sand in the night
In her linen dress of white.
BIRD IN THE FIRE, MOUTHFUL OF SAND
KING OF THE BRIAR, MOUTHFUL OF SAND
THE SCALE AND FEATHER, THE LOCK AND KEY
THE LORD OF WEATHER, THE BEAST AT PEACE
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(Notes from the Trial Of) La Curandera Lyrics as written by Jean-paul Gaster Dan Maines
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One of my most favourite songs on Blast Tyrant. I'll just write this for anyone who's not read the booklet, these lyrics are copied and slightly altered from a witch trial, and show that she was sentenced, and got her revenge. Amazing song.
How'd she get her revenge if she were dead? Interesting song, but I just don't get that. (Don't fret; I don't get lots of things...blonde, you know:)
a "la curandera" is a female shaman or healer. this song is about (like andyburton said) a witch trial - thus the line "We eagerly await your response and your best defense."
they execute the witch, but i dont think there is any revenge taken.
No revenge huh? I took the last few lyrics and the change in the tempo to be representative of her revenge. "Mouthful of sand" seems to be a curse to get those who prosecute her to shut the heck up. "Bird in the fire" adds some vivid imagery, like setting one on fire and watching the flap around. The Briar reminds me of that children's book about the Briar patch and the tar baby. Just my 2 cents...
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SHED NOT A TEAR FOR HUMANITY GOD FETCH MY STARS SHED NOT A TEAR FOR HUMANITY GOD FETCH MY STARS
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"Due to copyright restrictions, we are not authorized to display these lyrics"... Hu?