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The Marriage Of Steel And Skin Lyrics
Man, the one we followed has fallen to our foe
But, oh man, you can't just shed your soul and let ruin all your thirsting tongues
Your tolls grow tallies but there's no judge to pay the debts
Our judge is dead but one must reside to bring down judgment
This is my call from the kingdom
And I will stand
yes I will stand
I'll stand for the fires of the victims
left to die
left to die
and I'll stay until their cowards on a pyre
burned alive
burning alive
I'll stand for the fires of the victims
left to die
left to die
and I'll stay until their cowards on a pyre
burned alive
burning alive
Daughter! Sweet daughter
What has brought this bed of blood?
What man? What man has entered my home?
He's wreathed your body in sin
He must pay!
Now take my hand and show me the den where he lays
I'll marry a blade to his throat
I'll marry a blade to his throat
There's going to be blood for the blood that you spill
Blood for the blood of your will
we will stand by the fires of the victims
left to die
left to die
and we'll stay until their cowards on a pyre
burned alive
burning alive
We stand for the fires of the victims
left to die
left to die
and we'll stay until their cowards on a pyre
burned alive
burning alive
Now cut
cut until the head comes off
until the head comes off
But, oh man, you can't just shed your soul and let ruin all your thirsting tongues
Your tolls grow tallies but there's no judge to pay the debts
Our judge is dead but one must reside to bring down judgment
And I will stand
yes I will stand
left to die
left to die
burned alive
burning alive
left to die
left to die
and I'll stay until their cowards on a pyre
burned alive
burning alive
What has brought this bed of blood?
What man? What man has entered my home?
He's wreathed your body in sin
He must pay!
Now take my hand and show me the den where he lays
I'll marry a blade to his throat
I'll marry a blade to his throat
There's going to be blood for the blood that you spill
Blood for the blood of your will
we will stand by the fires of the victims
left to die
left to die
and we'll stay until their cowards on a pyre
burned alive
burning alive
We stand for the fires of the victims
left to die
left to die
and we'll stay until their cowards on a pyre
burned alive
burning alive
Now cut
cut until the head comes off
until the head comes off
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I essentially view this song as a stance on rape justice.
The song begins with "the one we followed has fallen to our foe" (or Eve listening to the serpent). However, the singer acknowledges this is no reason to "let ruin all your thirsting tongues" (use women to satiate one's carnal desires). The "tallies", or number of women who have fallen prey to the rapist, grows but there is no one to pass judgement. Therefore, the singer feels "the Kingdom" has ordained him to stand up for those women whom have been raped ("standing for the fires of the victims left to die"; "and I'll stay until their coward's on a pyre burned alive").
The singer comes home to find his daughter (whether he means his actual daughter or 'daughter of God' is of little difference) defiled and the bed covered in blood. He demands she show him where the man who did this lives so he can personally deal him justice. There he will "marry a blade to his throat" until he has removed the head from the rapist's shoulders.
This is a good interpretation for the song, but ignores that the song is part of a larger, hypothetical story.
This is a good interpretation for the song, but ignores that the song is part of a larger, hypothetical story.
"The one we followed has fallen to our foe" refers to God disappearing in the fight against Satan in Endseekers. "You can't just shed your soul and let run all your thirsting tongues" refers to the fact that we can't just resort to anarchy after God "dies" because order and justice must remain.
"The one we followed has fallen to our foe" refers to God disappearing in the fight against Satan in Endseekers. "You can't just shed your soul and let run all your thirsting tongues" refers to the fact that we can't just resort to anarchy after God "dies" because order and justice must remain.
Also, the narrator does mean his actual daughter; the entire album is about him and his daughter.
Also, the narrator does mean his actual daughter; the entire album is about him and his daughter.
This song describes the priest-turned-judge that the album follows. After the "death" of God, He becomes a judge out of good intentions to pass judgement on those who take advantage of others, as he believes God to be dead, and therefore there is no longer a punishment for the wrong-doers of the world.
His daughter (who the album also follows) get raped and the rest of the song is description of how the judge will pass judgement to the rapist. Especially important to this song is how the judge is eager to pass cruel and brutal judgement. Later in the album, this is addressed by the remaining Christians and God.
I think this song is meant to branch farther than just dealing with justice for rape victims. At this point in the album, the priest and many on Earth feel deserted by God and therefore there is no "judge" to punish the criminals.
"Blood for the blood you spilt", that is the only way in which humans know how to punish people. Crime here is going unpunished, and the the people left on Earth will "stand by the fires of the victims left to die" by pursuing and killing the wrongdoers.