In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Metaphor for a missing moment
Pull me into your perfect circle
One womb
One shape
One resolve
Liberate this will
To release us all
Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue that's
Keeping me from killing you
And from pulling you down with me in here
I can almost hear you scream
One more medicated peaceful moment
One more medicated peaceful moment
And I don't wanna feel this overwhelming
Hostility
And I don't wanna feel this overwhelming
Hostility
Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
Keeping me from killing you
Keeping me from killing you
Pull me into your perfect circle
One womb
One shape
One resolve
Liberate this will
To release us all
Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue that's
Keeping me from killing you
And from pulling you down with me in here
I can almost hear you scream
One more medicated peaceful moment
One more medicated peaceful moment
And I don't wanna feel this overwhelming
Hostility
And I don't wanna feel this overwhelming
Hostility
Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this
Umbilical residue
Keeping me from killing you
Keeping me from killing you
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Orestes Lyrics as written by Maynard James Keenan Billy Howerdel
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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To me, it's about the greek tragedy. "pull me into your perfect circle" The Oresteia, by Aeschylus is one of the first plays written, and back in Greece, there arenas were outside, with a giant circle in the ground, with thrusts seating 3/4th of the way around, and a skene 1/4th of the way in the back. The chorus would enter through parados on the side of the skene and chant around the circle while the actors played on the skeme, which was like a small house where they'd change, with a small deck where they acted.
Just my thoughts.
Orestes wanted to feel numb... he didn't want to feel the anger, the stress, the fear... and above all, he didn't want to love his mother anymore. "one more medicated peaceful moment"... He wanted to be numb so he could kill her and get it over with.
He came back to town with an urn and claimed it was Orestes, and went to see Aegisthus (Clytemnestra's lover, who helped her kill Agamemnon and device a plan to kill Orestes) and slayed him. Clytemnestra realized that this was her son and begged for her life, but he killed her as well... Then the Furies went after him and drove him mad. He fled to Athens and was tried and aquitted of the murders, then became King of Argos and some other places... But he was still insane.
Theatre takes its toll. is weary
If you're interested, I suggest looking up "The Oresteia" or "Agamemnon"... Or even better, Aeschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides, the playwrites themselve. They all wrote about Orestes, however, they're vastly different.
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