"A very good song. I think this song is about a serial killer who ends up regretting everything hes done "last you regret tortured animals wake up time
beckons death upon myself" and hes lost his urge to kill "tempting motion slows to a
crawl" I disagree with sockheads complete statement, for one, this song was clearly written by nivek, its the same style hes always used. and two, back in 92 cobain was still a small time rocker, nivek would not have consulted him for help."
^^^ This person is an idiot.
The song is about society, and the fact that it's taught so much violence to it's people, and they follow so blindly, lashing out at the world around them.
Then the world gives it's own back and they are in pain, then how they blame and blame about who started all the wars and the violence, and how they point fingers, but the real forces who started the killing game are the same people crying.
It's about how in the end they might just regret it all when they're not so blind to see, that their own downfall comes from their own hands.
I like your interpretation... I think at least a little bit of this song is just Ogre having fun sounding badass though :P.
And yeah that quote is awesome.
I like your interpretation... I think at least a little bit of this song is just Ogre having fun sounding badass though :P.
And yeah that quote is awesome.
@ff45t1z I think you might have something here. But I think you're just scratching the surface of this interpretation. The way it keeps coming back to the "I" even through its kinda random use of pronouns makes it seem that this isn't about society as a whole realizing its part in its own destruction, but rather about one character's realization that there's nobody else left to blame but himself.
Going by your interpretation the first half is about the character's suffering looking for someone to blame for their pain -- tellingly the line that section keeps coming back to...
@ff45t1z I think you might have something here. But I think you're just scratching the surface of this interpretation. The way it keeps coming back to the "I" even through its kinda random use of pronouns makes it seem that this isn't about society as a whole realizing its part in its own destruction, but rather about one character's realization that there's nobody else left to blame but himself.
Going by your interpretation the first half is about the character's suffering looking for someone to blame for their pain -- tellingly the line that section keeps coming back to is "who taught the killing game?"
The second half of the song starting from the first "I taught the killing game first" is the character's realization that he is as much to blame for his own suffering as anyone else in the world. And how, going back in his memory, he can even see how his actions led to his current situation. His mind is no longer "closed in sanctuary". What's really interesting is that the first repeat of the line "I taught the killing game first" is delivered in a tone not of regret or resignation but triumph. That along with the line "strange no stronger feeling" makes it seem that maybe, the realization that you are to blame for your own pain doesn't come as a slap across the face... it comes as a relief.
Some more interesting stuff: "Till at last you regret" in the part of the song that's about the character looking into the past, but it is in future tense. The character at this point is looking into the past to find where they went wrong, and assumes that when they find it they will feel regret.
"Tortured animals wake up time" the character who felt tortured and helpless wakes up to the realization that they had the power to make at least some small change all along.
"Places his weaponry and it's a trap/let go the springs snap shut/gazes show sharper teeth giving into the jaws of death" the character looking back on his past can see how his own actions (the weapon is himself) in part created whatever events led to the trap snapping shut on him and his current pain.
"A very good song. I think this song is about a serial killer who ends up regretting everything hes done "last you regret tortured animals wake up time beckons death upon myself" and hes lost his urge to kill "tempting motion slows to a crawl" I disagree with sockheads complete statement, for one, this song was clearly written by nivek, its the same style hes always used. and two, back in 92 cobain was still a small time rocker, nivek would not have consulted him for help."
^^^ This person is an idiot.
The song is about society, and the fact that it's taught so much violence to it's people, and they follow so blindly, lashing out at the world around them. Then the world gives it's own back and they are in pain, then how they blame and blame about who started all the wars and the violence, and how they point fingers, but the real forces who started the killing game are the same people crying. It's about how in the end they might just regret it all when they're not so blind to see, that their own downfall comes from their own hands.
I like your interpretation... I think at least a little bit of this song is just Ogre having fun sounding badass though :P. And yeah that quote is awesome.
I like your interpretation... I think at least a little bit of this song is just Ogre having fun sounding badass though :P. And yeah that quote is awesome.
@ff45t1z I think you might have something here. But I think you're just scratching the surface of this interpretation. The way it keeps coming back to the "I" even through its kinda random use of pronouns makes it seem that this isn't about society as a whole realizing its part in its own destruction, but rather about one character's realization that there's nobody else left to blame but himself. Going by your interpretation the first half is about the character's suffering looking for someone to blame for their pain -- tellingly the line that section keeps coming back to...
@ff45t1z I think you might have something here. But I think you're just scratching the surface of this interpretation. The way it keeps coming back to the "I" even through its kinda random use of pronouns makes it seem that this isn't about society as a whole realizing its part in its own destruction, but rather about one character's realization that there's nobody else left to blame but himself. Going by your interpretation the first half is about the character's suffering looking for someone to blame for their pain -- tellingly the line that section keeps coming back to is "who taught the killing game?" The second half of the song starting from the first "I taught the killing game first" is the character's realization that he is as much to blame for his own suffering as anyone else in the world. And how, going back in his memory, he can even see how his actions led to his current situation. His mind is no longer "closed in sanctuary". What's really interesting is that the first repeat of the line "I taught the killing game first" is delivered in a tone not of regret or resignation but triumph. That along with the line "strange no stronger feeling" makes it seem that maybe, the realization that you are to blame for your own pain doesn't come as a slap across the face... it comes as a relief.
Some more interesting stuff: "Till at last you regret" in the part of the song that's about the character looking into the past, but it is in future tense. The character at this point is looking into the past to find where they went wrong, and assumes that when they find it they will feel regret. "Tortured animals wake up time" the character who felt tortured and helpless wakes up to the realization that they had the power to make at least some small change all along. "Places his weaponry and it's a trap/let go the springs snap shut/gazes show sharper teeth giving into the jaws of death" the character looking back on his past can see how his own actions (the weapon is himself) in part created whatever events led to the trap snapping shut on him and his current pain.