Orestes

I would love to go through and discuss the meaning of this song over and over again, but I'm just going to give my two cents.

I agree with everyone that the song has a double meaning, in the sense that it is both about the mythological story of Orestes and also about an individual who's suffering from a relationship, for whatever reason. In my own light, this song connects with me because of a friendship or relationship that was doomed from the beginning. In my case, it's because I have abandonment issues and because the other person is just too unreliable and was only in it for the moment.

"Metaphor for a missing moment / Pull me in to your perfect circle"

• You get swept up in a good moment, finding a new friend or a lover, and before you know it, you're circling each other, orbiting around what connected you both the most and celebrating this newfound bond.

"One womb, one shape, one resolve"

• If memory serves me right, the lyrics are "one shame" and not "one shape". Either way, this is where you start to feel slightly dependent on this other person, only realizing that bond is starting to get detrimental and that you're questioning if the other person really even likes you or if they're already over you, but you can never tell. As far as you know, you're just a blip on their radar.

"Liberate this will to release us all"

• You realize that maybe this friendship wasn't a good idea and as enjoyable as it was for the moment, you're better off just walking away while you still have the will to do so.

"Got to cut away / Clear away/ Snip away and sever this umbilical residue/ That's keeping me from killing you"

• Your own delusions and negative thoughts are causing you to have resentment towards this person, and it's erasing any good feelings you may have ever had for them, so you just want to break it off so you can diminish these negative thoughts.

"And from pulling you down with me here/ I can almost hear you scream"

• By staying with this person as friends, you'll only drag them down into your own dark cloud, and it would only cause the other person to hate you for it.

"Give me one more medicated peaceful moment"

• You still want to communicate with this person so badly, because in spite of your negativity, you still had a connection with this person, and it would be a shame to throw it all away, but you know you have to. So you try to communicate with them one last time to see if they even like you still and if there's anything you can salvage from the relationship.

"And I don't want to feel this overwhelming hostility"

• Because either this person is starting to get tired of you or doesn't want to be seen around you for your negativity, or because they just don't feel the same way about you the way you feel about them, your negative feelings grow and start eating away at you, and now you realize the only cure is to just leave this person alone and go on with your life before you destroy yourself over it.

I believe this song relates to the mythology of Orestes because he has to avenge his father, but he is still killing his mother, who is always God in the eyes of all children. He doesn't want to kill her, but he also doesn't want to spend the rest of his life hating her for what she did (or let happen depending on the story). So this song relates to the myth because it's in a way describing how torn Orestes was about coming to the resolution that he had to kill his mother.

Either way, the "core" meaning of this song is about effectively ending a relationship because of resentment or anger towards the other person, and it's those feelings that are destroying you, not them, and the song is also about that realization. Either by just simply walking away or literally killing someone, you are breaking a dependent bond to save both sides.