OMG :O no one has commented on this song, practically one of my FAV PT tracks from their earlier work...here goes...
This song is about euthanasia, i recon any hoo, (some where inside, i have died) about the way people are forced to waste away, unable to do anything (now we are coasting, talking less, breathing stress), and being kept alive, lying on a hospital bed, being concious and capable of a certain amount of thought but not really functioning (so I will lie, in formaldehyde) [formaldehyde is used as a really powerful presertive for preserving dead animals (for stuffing i thing etcetc)] the middle is talking about the hopelessness of his/her situation, and (or do you want me to stay?) kinda puts forward the whole arguement of why euthanasia is so difficult to imagine. But the guy is also asking his friends and family (fatherhood) - [hes a dad] to end his life for him (send me to sleep) (tie up loose ends, make it stop) The last stanza is the irony of the debate over euthanasia, that people are sent ot war and die, that people spent their entire lives damaging and hurting other people, but that they cannot end this one persons life who wants to die...
Its so sad
beautiful song, only Steven Wilson can make such a sad song so beautiful......
OMG :O no one has commented on this song, practically one of my FAV PT tracks from their earlier work...here goes...
This song is about euthanasia, i recon any hoo, (some where inside, i have died) about the way people are forced to waste away, unable to do anything (now we are coasting, talking less, breathing stress), and being kept alive, lying on a hospital bed, being concious and capable of a certain amount of thought but not really functioning (so I will lie, in formaldehyde) [formaldehyde is used as a really powerful presertive for preserving dead animals (for stuffing i thing etcetc)] the middle is talking about the hopelessness of his/her situation, and (or do you want me to stay?) kinda puts forward the whole arguement of why euthanasia is so difficult to imagine. But the guy is also asking his friends and family (fatherhood) - [hes a dad] to end his life for him (send me to sleep) (tie up loose ends, make it stop) The last stanza is the irony of the debate over euthanasia, that people are sent ot war and die, that people spent their entire lives damaging and hurting other people, but that they cannot end this one persons life who wants to die... Its so sad beautiful song, only Steven Wilson can make such a sad song so beautiful......