I wish the band members would come back on here and comment on their newer albums.
Just a shot in the dark here, but I believe a blood flower is actually alluding to bleeding.
I happen to be an ex-heroin addict and when you draw blood into the syringe from your vein, some people call that a 'crimson orchid' because of the way the blood appears in the barrel of the syringe.
Maybe because of my own life experience it's just easy to hear certain things, but in that context "i buried my blood years ago to encourage the vine; i waited for something to grow and flourish with time." could mean the songwriter stopped getting high to give him/herself a chance to live a decent life.
Again in that context; "Every day a little more unsettled, you are starting to understand
You're sleeping with the lights on, with no one to hold your hand."
On heroin you tend to go through sort of a honeymoon period where you don't realize it's got it's grips in you, until you understand. Also, you tend to 'sleep' with lights on because the drug makes you nod out, or become semiconscious/unconscious.... AND there's no one to hold your hand because you become someone nobody wants to be around.
just my interpretation. tilly tends to be a little bit too creative for me to keep up with so I could be way off track.
I wish the band members would come back on here and comment on their newer albums.
Just a shot in the dark here, but I believe a blood flower is actually alluding to bleeding.
I happen to be an ex-heroin addict and when you draw blood into the syringe from your vein, some people call that a 'crimson orchid' because of the way the blood appears in the barrel of the syringe.
Maybe because of my own life experience it's just easy to hear certain things, but in that context "i buried my blood years ago to encourage the vine; i waited for something to grow and flourish with time." could mean the songwriter stopped getting high to give him/herself a chance to live a decent life.
Again in that context; "Every day a little more unsettled, you are starting to understand You're sleeping with the lights on, with no one to hold your hand."
On heroin you tend to go through sort of a honeymoon period where you don't realize it's got it's grips in you, until you understand. Also, you tend to 'sleep' with lights on because the drug makes you nod out, or become semiconscious/unconscious.... AND there's no one to hold your hand because you become someone nobody wants to be around.
just my interpretation. tilly tends to be a little bit too creative for me to keep up with so I could be way off track.