The Crop and the Pest

I think this song is about a person who is a leech of sorts. A pest to a perfect crop. As he/she decays he/she attaches to someone who isn't and tries to take them down with them.

"I will treat you so well I'll take you up from this hell My gracious host, you're my lover won't you be my concubine?

The pleasure's all mine Your pleasures are all mine "

It's a broken promise, a lie of sorts. Promises and the pretense of love blind her as she becomes nothing more than a concubine to him. He's using her, once again, like a pest eats away at a crop.

I lovee this song and incase anyone was wondering, you can listen to it at:

www.purevolume.com/thereceivingendofsirens

I love the meaning of the song.

Brendan Brown said:

"This is mostly about the realization of sin. It comes from the view point of this aforementioned sin. I pictured it as this really weak parasite clinging to its host, living in with fear with knowledge that once it is discovered it is no more than a scab to picked off."

a nautilus is. . Nautilus (from Greek ναυτίλος, 'sailor') is the common name of any marine creatures of the cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole family of the suborder Nautilina. It comprises six species in two genera, the type of which is the genus Nautilus. Though it more specifically refers to the species Nautilus pompilius, the name chambered nautilus is also used for any species of the Nautilidae.

The nautilus is similar in general form to other cephalopods, with a prominent head and tentacles. Nautiluses typically have more tentacles than other cephalopods, up to ninety. These tentacles are arranged into two circles and, unlike the tentacles of other cephalopods, they have no suckers, are undifferentiated and retractable. The radula is wide and distinctively has nine teeth. There are two pairs of gills.

its like a fish, octapus with no suckers, and a hermit crab in one thing. .i got that off wikipidea.

Come away Come away with me, You perfect, perfect shell You nautilus, nautilus

hense the shell line.

I agree with candykaos.. I believe this is based on a person who knows they're falling apart; being destroyed from within for whatever reason and they're lost, confused, and frantic to find someone to "attach" themselves to for further support, and to take down with them in their fall.

In this, he compares himself to several very annoying and very stubborn "attachments" of sorts and seems to focus on clinging to the one perfect thing in his life and slowly taking them over and possessing them.

Just wanted to help with the "you're my lover / won't you be my concubine?" line. By definition in the dictionary, a concubine is a girl that lives with a man that she isn't married to. He's asking her to move in with him.

anyone care to help me with the right / left hand references? I'm trying to nail this song line by line.

I think Revenga is more right on this one. If you really think about it, the words really fit taht description really well

I think this song is religious...

p.s. There is no apostrophe in 'its' in the chorus.