This song is so incredible.
I don't want to be wrong and sound like a complete idiot, but I personally think it's about smoking and all the people that die from it.
"Now each day
I sink a bit faster into my father's fate
Four packs a day
Four decades straight
Right to an unmarked grave"
-I think that his father may have died of smoking maybe. Or maybe he means God as his Father. Or maybe it's both. But he says "Four packs a day, four decades straight," and I think that he's saying his father smoked four packs a day for 40 years, and he's afraid that he's going to end up doing that too. And it will lead him to death.
And he continues to talk about smoking and its affetcs and everything.
"The face of a saint
The voice of a symphony
She says
'The future will be devoid of weaknesses'
Free cigarettes
For all the kids
To make small skeletons"
-More and more kids are beginning to smoke, and it's going to kill a large portion of them.
"I used to think
As I aged with time
That it would shut it's eyes
And just let me be
Then I'd seen it's designs
To kill and hide
Deceitfully inside my skin
I've been hunting it ever since."
He used to think that it would be so easy to quit, but now he realizes how difficult it is to kick a nicotine addiction. Now he sees what it is doing to his body, and he can't stop smoking.
"I used to think it would sleep!"
-Maybe he already has some smoking-induced sickness and he thought he would be able to heal, but he's finally realizing he can't? Or maybe he's once again saying that he thought the nicotine addiction would sleep, but it won't and he just can't quit. I don't know.
Like I said, I could be so far off with this, but it makes sense to me. For now, anyway. I will probably walk away, listen to it again, and realize that what I've said makes no sense at all. Haha. Let me know what you think.
This song is so incredible. I don't want to be wrong and sound like a complete idiot, but I personally think it's about smoking and all the people that die from it.
"Now each day I sink a bit faster into my father's fate Four packs a day Four decades straight Right to an unmarked grave" -I think that his father may have died of smoking maybe. Or maybe he means God as his Father. Or maybe it's both. But he says "Four packs a day, four decades straight," and I think that he's saying his father smoked four packs a day for 40 years, and he's afraid that he's going to end up doing that too. And it will lead him to death.
And he continues to talk about smoking and its affetcs and everything.
"The face of a saint The voice of a symphony She says 'The future will be devoid of weaknesses' Free cigarettes For all the kids To make small skeletons" -More and more kids are beginning to smoke, and it's going to kill a large portion of them.
"I used to think As I aged with time That it would shut it's eyes And just let me be Then I'd seen it's designs To kill and hide Deceitfully inside my skin I've been hunting it ever since."
He used to think that it would be so easy to quit, but now he realizes how difficult it is to kick a nicotine addiction. Now he sees what it is doing to his body, and he can't stop smoking.
"I used to think it would sleep!" -Maybe he already has some smoking-induced sickness and he thought he would be able to heal, but he's finally realizing he can't? Or maybe he's once again saying that he thought the nicotine addiction would sleep, but it won't and he just can't quit. I don't know.
Like I said, I could be so far off with this, but it makes sense to me. For now, anyway. I will probably walk away, listen to it again, and realize that what I've said makes no sense at all. Haha. Let me know what you think.