I like the way the lyricist portrays the (corrupted) world as frosted grass--very pretty, but in truth, completely harmful--an appealing illusion.
Everyone knows that pain is a natural function that lets you know something is wrong. But you are an adaptive being, and eventually you will stop noticing it. This numbness is what the song warns against. As CarolineO suggested, your heart becomes tragically hard, and you don't even know you're losing sensitivity, your ability to separate truth and fabrication. Because it happens so gradually (slow turning blood and veins cold), it seems normal. Dark, silent death becomes more a reality than life.
There's so much hope in this song, though. The heart is still "ready to crack", allowing the creation of a new one in its place, a soft one that "won't get old".
Freezing to death hurts a lot.
At first.
I like the way the lyricist portrays the (corrupted) world as frosted grass--very pretty, but in truth, completely harmful--an appealing illusion.
Everyone knows that pain is a natural function that lets you know something is wrong. But you are an adaptive being, and eventually you will stop noticing it. This numbness is what the song warns against. As CarolineO suggested, your heart becomes tragically hard, and you don't even know you're losing sensitivity, your ability to separate truth and fabrication. Because it happens so gradually (slow turning blood and veins cold), it seems normal. Dark, silent death becomes more a reality than life.
There's so much hope in this song, though. The heart is still "ready to crack", allowing the creation of a new one in its place, a soft one that "won't get old".
Ilovethisentirealbum.