This song is absolutely gorgeous! So sad, poignant, beautiful. It played on “The Devil’s Rejects”, on the scene where they were hurt and captured – the meaning fit perfectly.
“Oh, we are what we are when in danger”
We are reduced to our human condition when we’re in danger. No masks, no poses, no power – just our primitive selves.
“And we are as we stand head in hands”
When danger comes, you briefly support your head on your hands, thinking ‘Oh, sh*t.’
“When a friend brings to light on a cold silver knife
You can stare your fate right into his hands”
A friend is the one betraying you and bringing you danger, threatening you with a knife, and your fate depends on him.
“Things just stay the same as they've always been
Some of us are out to win / And some of us are out just to aim”
Being in this situation is almost expected... He/they always aimed for one thing, but always wound up losing. Things never went his/their way.
“Oh we are what we are when we're praying
In our way of seeking some light”
Praying to find an escape, a solution for his/their life-and-death situation.
”May the mission bells still ring of the colorful dream
In the faith that everyone will be treated right”
Expecting to be treated right by his/their enemy, he knows, is just a colorful dream. It’s “a hopeless fight”. It’s over. But maybe if metaphorical bells ring and a miracle happens...
This song is absolutely gorgeous! So sad, poignant, beautiful. It played on “The Devil’s Rejects”, on the scene where they were hurt and captured – the meaning fit perfectly.
“Oh, we are what we are when in danger”
We are reduced to our human condition when we’re in danger. No masks, no poses, no power – just our primitive selves.
“And we are as we stand head in hands”
When danger comes, you briefly support your head on your hands, thinking ‘Oh, sh*t.’
“When a friend brings to light on a cold silver knife You can stare your fate right into his hands”
A friend is the one betraying you and bringing you danger, threatening you with a knife, and your fate depends on him.
“Things just stay the same as they've always been Some of us are out to win / And some of us are out just to aim”
Being in this situation is almost expected... He/they always aimed for one thing, but always wound up losing. Things never went his/their way.
“Oh we are what we are when we're praying In our way of seeking some light”
Praying to find an escape, a solution for his/their life-and-death situation.
”May the mission bells still ring of the colorful dream In the faith that everyone will be treated right”
Expecting to be treated right by his/their enemy, he knows, is just a colorful dream. It’s “a hopeless fight”. It’s over. But maybe if metaphorical bells ring and a miracle happens...