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The Casket of Roderic Usher Lyrics
Human flesh
Open earth
Prepare your burial
This body cold and contagious
Buried with your face down
You scream without sound
Broken bones won't heal you
Sympathy turns to laughter
(prick your fingers and bleed, give the poison to me)
unearthed hands of solitude
all over me
torn apart by this cold self incision
so let it bleed
BEWARE!
Open earth
Prepare your burial
This body cold and contagious
Buried with your face down
You scream without sound
Broken bones won't heal you
Sympathy turns to laughter
(prick your fingers and bleed, give the poison to me)
unearthed hands of solitude
all over me
torn apart by this cold self incision
so let it bleed
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BEST SONG ON THE ALBUM! HANDS DOWN MANG!
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF UHSER
Exterior self has been lost in the interior world of the imagination...
cold self incision...
I think that touches on how he bears two personalities in one being.
Broken bones won't heal you...my favorite line...I think it's comparable to pinching yourself, unsure of whether you're dreaming or not.
MADNESS...dementia...
Separation of self, then projecting and locking yourself inside some fantastic region about your mind where it's dark, demented, and secluded. Killing your physical self, as depicted by the origin of this song (Edgar Allan Poe). Paranoia stabs and sinks into you. Bound to the point of no return. Suppression of REALITY.
BEWARE! THE HUMAN MIND!
Beware Pariah919 you mean :-)
...and very intense song, as to WTF is going on...that beats me, still cool and this new album is growing on me daily
also, if it helps at all, psilocybin is a chemical found in magic mushrooms, which is a hallucinagenic drug. so that ties in with the paranoia and dementia
never mind, i posted that in the wrong song section. my bad.
You should all go read "The Fall Of The House Of Usher", because it is this song in a nutshell...
It's a psychotic story too, by...you know who...
Or rather, this song is that book in a nutshell, which most people sadly prefer these days...
Oh well, at least I tried...
Hmmm yeah I read that the other day, fits right in with this song.
A lot of the new Finch stuff uses dark imagery like this, probably metaphorically. Although I can't see this Poe story being used in that way
This is the most hard-core song on the album in my opinion. It's too bad that it's only like...a minute and 44 seconds or somethin like that...
f1nch, I think that's because Mike Patton wouldn't allow Nate Barcalow to completely and wholly channel him for two whole minutes. :)
If you don't know who Mike Patton is, you need to listen to Faith No More.