@raephe: i don't think she's directly condemning religion or anything, she's just saying, "once you're dead, you're dead." even if there is an afterlife or anything, your body remains empty.
i think this song is (partly) about lost writing/poetry. the saying goes that "the pen is mightier than the sword." but here, she's wondering "what if the sword kills the pen?" what if violence and cruelty and physicality overcome the ancient words that have survived so many generations? i especially love:
"For those who still can recall
The desperate colors of fall"
because only a writer sees colors as "desperate," only a poet can capture the feeling you get from a season. if the sword does kill the pen, then that description and that way of looking at life is lost.
but yeah, i also felt that it was "russian" although i can't say i know much about russian music. it's "the flowers"-esque, though.
@raephe: i don't think she's directly condemning religion or anything, she's just saying, "once you're dead, you're dead." even if there is an afterlife or anything, your body remains empty.
i think this song is (partly) about lost writing/poetry. the saying goes that "the pen is mightier than the sword." but here, she's wondering "what if the sword kills the pen?" what if violence and cruelty and physicality overcome the ancient words that have survived so many generations? i especially love: "For those who still can recall The desperate colors of fall" because only a writer sees colors as "desperate," only a poet can capture the feeling you get from a season. if the sword does kill the pen, then that description and that way of looking at life is lost.
but yeah, i also felt that it was "russian" although i can't say i know much about russian music. it's "the flowers"-esque, though.