Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Francis Ford Coppola's subsequent Apocalypse Now, Kurtz talks about death. Now, he talks a lot about death, about what comes afterwards particularly, where war comes in, inevitability, certainty, honor, life. Where this gets interesting - his dying words.
"The horror."
That's how I hear the song. "The horror." Over and over. "The horror. The horror." The neverending horror. The perpetual torture. "The horror. The horror."