A soft breeze
With the slippery concrete black and full of muddy slush
Contrasting with the hoarfrost, clean and hung
On a tunnel of silent shivering trees
The ones you said you'd like to be
And the birds that screamed at the sun

Now buried deep below the ground
Beneath the snow, I press my shoulder to this wall between us
I know you are behind me and I press my shoulder to this wall
Determined not to turn around

I didn't see you standing
Still that statue that I molded in my mind to kiss
So beautiful you'll never move again

Someplace far away
At some sad table littered with chipped plates
With bad light in 48 frames from a movie on the cutting room floor
You said, "True meaning would be dying with you"
And though I wanted to, I did not smile

But now I will give up on this wall that I have fought with
Never uncover meaning behind our rich words
If I could I would make you a raging river
With angry rapids, plied with rain
So you could always meander
And forever be able to run away

Without contending
With myths wrongly interpreted
With pain

A harsh wind
A harsh wind


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Without Mythologies Lyrics as written by Jason Tait John K Samson

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    This song is definitely an allusion to the myth of Oorpheus and Eurydice. For those that don't know, basically Orpheus was a great musician (he was the son of the muse Calliope) who's playing could bring about any emotion. When his wife (Eurydice) was bitten by a snake and died he crossed to the underworld and pleaded to Haedes that he might have his wife back. After playing such a beautiful song on his lyre, Hades agreed to this on the condition that Orpheus COULD NOT turn around and look at his wife until they were both in the sunlight and out of the underworld, otherwise she would disappear forever. Anyways, he looks back and Eurydice disappears forever.

    " I press my shoulder to this wall between us. I know you are behind me but I press my shoulder to this wall, determined not to turn around." definite reference to this story.

    I think J.K. Samson has modelled himself a modern day Orpheus and Eurydice. A man who's love died, and he'd do anything to get her back. he's haunted by memories of this woman who he loved.

    Also- in regards to the "dying with you" line, after Orpheus lost Eurydice for the second time he wandered into the dance of the followers of Dionysus (drunk, half crazed and possibly drugged women), who ripped him apart. His head floated across the ocean to Lesbos where it became an Oracle.

    pashupation January 08, 2008   Link

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