to me it seems to refer throughout the song to the inevitability of death.
"these lines of life, have been drawn and cant be removed" - life travels along a set path ending in death which cannot be avoided. a persons life line is set.
"the seed waits for the reaper to sew" - a human "seed" waits to be born, but this is at the hand of the reaper. the reaper brings death. This is saying: to be born is to die. using the analogy of crops being sowed and then harvested by the reaper.
the main point of the song is then how does love fit into this. "what is love?".
"That we may make a kiss that can pierce through Death & survive
Your words have branded my mind" - thier love strives for eternity but in the end it is linked to thier non eternal bodies "we of flesh and blood, are only carrying". the last stanza deals with the actual death "take all your peices home" - when they die everything that was a part of them goes with them.
"what is love?" is a rhetorical question being asked by those who are left behind, which the song answers for them. "the blood is love"
meaning, just as the blood dies and decays so does the love that person contained. love is no more eternal than our bodies are.
a very dark and bitter song. another interpretation of the last two lines could be the blood meaning offspring. ie an echo of their love is passed down through thier anscestors achieving eternity and thus peircing through death and surviving. Although thats a happier conclusion to the song it doesn't fit the mood and the depressing music.
Great song still. My favourite off lullabies album
nice write up by kwsnbrg.
to me it seems to refer throughout the song to the inevitability of death.
"these lines of life, have been drawn and cant be removed" - life travels along a set path ending in death which cannot be avoided. a persons life line is set.
"the seed waits for the reaper to sew" - a human "seed" waits to be born, but this is at the hand of the reaper. the reaper brings death. This is saying: to be born is to die. using the analogy of crops being sowed and then harvested by the reaper.
the main point of the song is then how does love fit into this. "what is love?".
"That we may make a kiss that can pierce through Death & survive Your words have branded my mind" - thier love strives for eternity but in the end it is linked to thier non eternal bodies "we of flesh and blood, are only carrying". the last stanza deals with the actual death "take all your peices home" - when they die everything that was a part of them goes with them. "what is love?" is a rhetorical question being asked by those who are left behind, which the song answers for them. "the blood is love" meaning, just as the blood dies and decays so does the love that person contained. love is no more eternal than our bodies are.
a very dark and bitter song. another interpretation of the last two lines could be the blood meaning offspring. ie an echo of their love is passed down through thier anscestors achieving eternity and thus peircing through death and surviving. Although thats a happier conclusion to the song it doesn't fit the mood and the depressing music.
Great song still. My favourite off lullabies album