It was written about Kud's dying grandma, but it's meaning isn't that direct and explicit, it's about more than just that, as many of you have already summed up.
I like the juxtoposition in the title, how death is supposed to be an end and blooming is supposed to signify the beggining, it ends up being a metaphor for the complex relationship between the concepts of death and life. The title can be taken to mean both the ending of life and the formation of death. It's really cool what they do. Mudvayne have always had lots of intellectual and poetic elements to their writing. Some people initially labelled them 'math metal' because of their complex time-signatures and tone changes, but if you're gonna define them that way, i think 'lit-metal' is a lot more accurate, and it's a better complement too.
It was written about Kud's dying grandma, but it's meaning isn't that direct and explicit, it's about more than just that, as many of you have already summed up.
I like the juxtoposition in the title, how death is supposed to be an end and blooming is supposed to signify the beggining, it ends up being a metaphor for the complex relationship between the concepts of death and life. The title can be taken to mean both the ending of life and the formation of death. It's really cool what they do. Mudvayne have always had lots of intellectual and poetic elements to their writing. Some people initially labelled them 'math metal' because of their complex time-signatures and tone changes, but if you're gonna define them that way, i think 'lit-metal' is a lot more accurate, and it's a better complement too.