Just wanted to expand on a previous comment about the line: "Your journey back to birth is haunting you"
"Journey back to birth" is a really awesome way of describing how people often look back on their lives... ultimately where we are today is the result of a series of choices that led to a path of outcomes and further choices to make... Sometimes the natural question to ask yourself is "how did I end up here" and I think Dredg was really able to capture those feelings you experience when looking back on your life, the endless questions and "What if's" really can be "haunting", and even more so when you begin to consider how the rest of your life will pan out if you keep moving through life and making similar choices at the same rate: hence "Your departure from the earth is haunting you".
Bug Eyes really is all about the epiphany... the "freaking out" you experience when you suddenly realize you're not where you want to be in life, when you're caught in the crossroads between a difficult (perhaps regretful) Past- and an uncertain and quickly-approaching Future. At the same time, reflecting on the very existentialism that may have discouraged one from "settling down" or "falling in line" with society... Is there a way to really live without being "trimmed down like hedges and told just to sit and wilt"? There seems to be a compromise here between getting your life together and still being able to feel "alive".
@BlindJester yes! i found meaning on this song just as you did, but my english is limited for me to explain it. I am greatful to you for your remarkable display of analysis.
@BlindJester yes! i found meaning on this song just as you did, but my english is limited for me to explain it. I am greatful to you for your remarkable display of analysis.
Just wanted to expand on a previous comment about the line: "Your journey back to birth is haunting you"
"Journey back to birth" is a really awesome way of describing how people often look back on their lives... ultimately where we are today is the result of a series of choices that led to a path of outcomes and further choices to make... Sometimes the natural question to ask yourself is "how did I end up here" and I think Dredg was really able to capture those feelings you experience when looking back on your life, the endless questions and "What if's" really can be "haunting", and even more so when you begin to consider how the rest of your life will pan out if you keep moving through life and making similar choices at the same rate: hence "Your departure from the earth is haunting you".
Bug Eyes really is all about the epiphany... the "freaking out" you experience when you suddenly realize you're not where you want to be in life, when you're caught in the crossroads between a difficult (perhaps regretful) Past- and an uncertain and quickly-approaching Future. At the same time, reflecting on the very existentialism that may have discouraged one from "settling down" or "falling in line" with society... Is there a way to really live without being "trimmed down like hedges and told just to sit and wilt"? There seems to be a compromise here between getting your life together and still being able to feel "alive".
@BlindJester
@BlindJester
Way late to the party, but I just wanted to say that is exactly how I felt about this song. Very well articulated by the way.
Way late to the party, but I just wanted to say that is exactly how I felt about this song. Very well articulated by the way.
@BlindJester Yeah cheers man, nailed it.
@BlindJester Yeah cheers man, nailed it.
"It's been ten years strong, that's much too long... Time to do something good for myself."
"It's been ten years strong, that's much too long... Time to do something good for myself."
I remember literally tearing up live during the part when the guitars come back in after that break. So powerful. Miss this band!!
I remember literally tearing up live during the part when the guitars come back in after that break. So powerful. Miss this band!!
@foodforcrows
@foodforcrows
Dude... I really wish I could have seen them live. I bet it was pretty intense.
Dude... I really wish I could have seen them live. I bet it was pretty intense.
@BlindJester yes! i found meaning on this song just as you did, but my english is limited for me to explain it. I am greatful to you for your remarkable display of analysis.
@BlindJester yes! i found meaning on this song just as you did, but my english is limited for me to explain it. I am greatful to you for your remarkable display of analysis.