I'll give a little spin on this. It's definitely a song about a relationship.
But I feel there is sort of a reference, to their namesake. "...Trail of Dead." is an excerpt from a Mayan ritual prayer. A lot of the images of this song seem to depict a Mayan sacrifice or temple. "The skulls on these walls, are they connected to you?" could refer to walls of skulls that surrounded the temples. And "To scale to the top of this (grassy/misty) mountain side you're on" reminds me of images of the Mayan/Aztec pyramids, or the jungly mountains of South/Central America. And a lot of references to the Sun, which was one of the many reasons for the sacrificial rituals.
Dually, I think these images reflect onto a relationship, one that is difficult and destructive. "Cause I am only half, of what I am,
And half of that is what, the lies can do,
Where the rest is, I don't know,
And I'm not sure if I wanna know." Half of his soul/humanity has been destroyed. The other half is in poor shape from the lies of himself or the other. Trying to recover the rest may be too painful or disturbing/self destructive.
It also seems to show, that despite their may being a long running amount of pain in the relationship, it is still difficult to leave due to the attachment one has to the other. "If I was the sun, you'd be the world I'd shine onto.", "And sometimes I wonder whether my other half is you."
I'll give a little spin on this. It's definitely a song about a relationship.
But I feel there is sort of a reference, to their namesake. "...Trail of Dead." is an excerpt from a Mayan ritual prayer. A lot of the images of this song seem to depict a Mayan sacrifice or temple. "The skulls on these walls, are they connected to you?" could refer to walls of skulls that surrounded the temples. And "To scale to the top of this (grassy/misty) mountain side you're on" reminds me of images of the Mayan/Aztec pyramids, or the jungly mountains of South/Central America. And a lot of references to the Sun, which was one of the many reasons for the sacrificial rituals.
Dually, I think these images reflect onto a relationship, one that is difficult and destructive. "Cause I am only half, of what I am, And half of that is what, the lies can do, Where the rest is, I don't know, And I'm not sure if I wanna know." Half of his soul/humanity has been destroyed. The other half is in poor shape from the lies of himself or the other. Trying to recover the rest may be too painful or disturbing/self destructive.
It also seems to show, that despite their may being a long running amount of pain in the relationship, it is still difficult to leave due to the attachment one has to the other. "If I was the sun, you'd be the world I'd shine onto.", "And sometimes I wonder whether my other half is you."