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There's Talk of Mine Shafts Lyrics
MARTIN:
There's talk of mines where we can hide
There's room for you and me inside
Oh, Mariel! Sweet apple pie!
You can't be shy or close your eyes
MARIEL:
You talk of mines where we can hide
Until the bombs and floods subside
That hole's a drag, it's not my bag
It's dark and cold, it smells like mold
M&M:
'Cause there's a world beneath the earth
It deals in blood and lives in dirt
But we'll escape our Biblical fate
Yeah, we'll be safe in a miner's grave
There's talk of mines where we can hide
There's room for you and me inside
Oh, Mariel! Sweet apple pie!
You can't be shy or close your eyes
You talk of mines where we can hide
Until the bombs and floods subside
That hole's a drag, it's not my bag
It's dark and cold, it smells like mold
'Cause there's a world beneath the earth
It deals in blood and lives in dirt
But we'll escape our Biblical fate
Yeah, we'll be safe in a miner's grave
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Submitted by
jjjonatron On Oct 08, 2008
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Great song! My favorite off the new album. I think this song is about trying to continue living through some kind of disaster with someone you love. A continuation of Mariel's Brazen Overture. As with that song it again uses the Redwall characters, Mariel and Martin.
I love this song as a conclusion of Mariel's Brazen Overture. I think the last verse really sums up Martin and Mariel's resolution by the end of the saga. Keeping in mind that Martin and Mariel are mice, a nine inch grave would be the equivalent of the standard 6 foot grave for humans. I think Martin proposes that they commit suicide together because if they die now, they can die in love, and escape the "bombs and floods" that their relationship would be subject to if they tried to keep living. They can "escape their nickel fate" (which would be a cheap and cliched break-up) if they nobly die together and find solace in death.
They put up their lyrics on their website now, and that last line is actually:
"And we'll escape BIBLICAL fate."
So I think that whole Romeo and Juliet, dying thing is actually a little off. The crazy verse at the end of "Mariel's Brazen Overture" I think, is signifying a war, and in the song I think its actually revealed to be some sort of apocalypse-event (biblical fate, what else could it mean?) so the two mice can live as the only inhabitants of a ruined earth together, as long as they hide out in the mine shafts.
and the VERY last line is "a miner's grave" not "nine-inch."
according to MATNSAS, themselves.