You are right, the H with a capital hate is Heroin, it is a look back at Dwayne Goettel's death, - this and the breakup with his first wife Elke, really shook Edward Ka-Spel up in the mid-nineties. He was a friend of Dwayne's through the Tear Garden connection. Songs like "To Mourn the Death of Colour" are imploring the whole Heroin scene to quit, as it is sucking the life from it. Amongst other things...
Heroin makes you feel great 1. If you are doing it and 2. Because you are creating new users and feeling good that you are taking away their pain - like Jesus - drilling holes into flesh with needles - but of course, the addiction and side-effects kick in and sap you of your vitality and eventually - your life.
The Wall is related to the obstacle Edward speaks of trying to climb over in "Straight on 'till Morning" from "From Here You'll Watch the World Go By", and also later obliquely in the song "Castaway" from the album "Crystal Mass" by Tear Garden. In spirit, it carries on, on "The Whispering Wall", though that wall is more about a specific political boundary than this one.
"We're trapped here 'till we die" reminds me of Jim Morrison's "No one gets out of here alive." Since we will all die someday, I guess we don't - unless there is an escape hatch from the Hallway of the Gods...
You are right, the H with a capital hate is Heroin, it is a look back at Dwayne Goettel's death, - this and the breakup with his first wife Elke, really shook Edward Ka-Spel up in the mid-nineties. He was a friend of Dwayne's through the Tear Garden connection. Songs like "To Mourn the Death of Colour" are imploring the whole Heroin scene to quit, as it is sucking the life from it. Amongst other things...
Heroin makes you feel great 1. If you are doing it and 2. Because you are creating new users and feeling good that you are taking away their pain - like Jesus - drilling holes into flesh with needles - but of course, the addiction and side-effects kick in and sap you of your vitality and eventually - your life.
The Wall is related to the obstacle Edward speaks of trying to climb over in "Straight on 'till Morning" from "From Here You'll Watch the World Go By", and also later obliquely in the song "Castaway" from the album "Crystal Mass" by Tear Garden. In spirit, it carries on, on "The Whispering Wall", though that wall is more about a specific political boundary than this one.
"We're trapped here 'till we die" reminds me of Jim Morrison's "No one gets out of here alive." Since we will all die someday, I guess we don't - unless there is an escape hatch from the Hallway of the Gods...