I'd have to say, I don't always understand all of Virgin Black's lyrics, even after reading them 50 times. For example, the first line in this song. It sounds really cool, but I'm not sure what it means. "pain of a severed soul" sounds like he's talking about the pain of being a soul seperated from God - the pain of being alive on this Earth. The next few lines sound like a really cool way of expressing worship. "And my own pulluted breath, I speak the old man's words in a pursuasive eloquence" - My own polluted breath, in my opinion, is him humbling himself and "old man" is often a term used to describe a father, or in this case, Father God as he speaks his words in a persuasive eloquence. "This unlamented head" - kind of different from the usual Virgin Black lyrics, but cool nonetheless. Again, as cool as "On the crest of fire, our wings are burning, how glorious the pain" sounds, I'm not sure what it means either. I'm sure this isn't much help to the reader, but maybe somebody else can explain that one. I'll have to disagree, sort of, with theillusionary on the the line about "the ways of God shriek of tune" - to me, this is a classic Virgin Black line about the church going astray. It's not the first time they've wrote about it. All is lost but hope.
I'd have to say, I don't always understand all of Virgin Black's lyrics, even after reading them 50 times. For example, the first line in this song. It sounds really cool, but I'm not sure what it means. "pain of a severed soul" sounds like he's talking about the pain of being a soul seperated from God - the pain of being alive on this Earth. The next few lines sound like a really cool way of expressing worship. "And my own pulluted breath, I speak the old man's words in a pursuasive eloquence" - My own polluted breath, in my opinion, is him humbling himself and "old man" is often a term used to describe a father, or in this case, Father God as he speaks his words in a persuasive eloquence. "This unlamented head" - kind of different from the usual Virgin Black lyrics, but cool nonetheless. Again, as cool as "On the crest of fire, our wings are burning, how glorious the pain" sounds, I'm not sure what it means either. I'm sure this isn't much help to the reader, but maybe somebody else can explain that one. I'll have to disagree, sort of, with theillusionary on the the line about "the ways of God shriek of tune" - to me, this is a classic Virgin Black line about the church going astray. It's not the first time they've wrote about it. All is lost but hope.