Guys, guys... Please... It's all about the fact that in our world, every child is born in debt. The payment for the hospital bed for the mother giving birth comes first, then, the upbringing, the college fees, and then we spend the rest of our lives killing ourselves for each cent we get. It's all about the literal price we pay for living our lives in this capitalist, dog-eat-dog world.
Yeah that's wrong, its part of a concept album about a man and a woman with similar scarred pasts that meet by chance...nothing political in this one.
Not a bad interpretation otherwise though.
Yeah that's wrong, its part of a concept album about a man and a woman with similar scarred pasts that meet by chance...nothing political in this one.
Not a bad interpretation otherwise though.
Regardless of the overarching plot, if you examine the lyrics rather than focusing on a vague description of the album, Long is absolutely right here.
Regardless of the overarching plot, if you examine the lyrics rather than focusing on a vague description of the album, Long is absolutely right here.
The album is about more than "him" and "her." It's also about the circumstances and pains that have lead them to be together. They were each born into a tragic life, from their very first breath, starting with this debt, both literal and figurative... born into a society in which he is "not fit to play this game." It's a world where he must live by the show of his teeth, to use his talents...
The album is about more than "him" and "her." It's also about the circumstances and pains that have lead them to be together. They were each born into a tragic life, from their very first breath, starting with this debt, both literal and figurative... born into a society in which he is "not fit to play this game." It's a world where he must live by the show of his teeth, to use his talents as "talons" (PoS references "birds of prey" frequently, which I think stem's from Nietzsche's concept of sheep and birds of prey.) in order to make a superfluous living and buy those precious smiles.
And, truly? Do you really think that the lines
"A governmental blade
Drawn from its private sheath
Quite a bargain I'd say, since either way
You'll be living by the show of your teeth."
Guys, guys... Please... It's all about the fact that in our world, every child is born in debt. The payment for the hospital bed for the mother giving birth comes first, then, the upbringing, the college fees, and then we spend the rest of our lives killing ourselves for each cent we get. It's all about the literal price we pay for living our lives in this capitalist, dog-eat-dog world.
Just an interpretation. I may be wrong.
Yeah that's wrong, its part of a concept album about a man and a woman with similar scarred pasts that meet by chance...nothing political in this one. Not a bad interpretation otherwise though.
Yeah that's wrong, its part of a concept album about a man and a woman with similar scarred pasts that meet by chance...nothing political in this one. Not a bad interpretation otherwise though.
Sherick is right.
Sherick is right.
Regardless of the overarching plot, if you examine the lyrics rather than focusing on a vague description of the album, Long is absolutely right here.
Regardless of the overarching plot, if you examine the lyrics rather than focusing on a vague description of the album, Long is absolutely right here.
The album is about more than "him" and "her." It's also about the circumstances and pains that have lead them to be together. They were each born into a tragic life, from their very first breath, starting with this debt, both literal and figurative... born into a society in which he is "not fit to play this game." It's a world where he must live by the show of his teeth, to use his talents...
The album is about more than "him" and "her." It's also about the circumstances and pains that have lead them to be together. They were each born into a tragic life, from their very first breath, starting with this debt, both literal and figurative... born into a society in which he is "not fit to play this game." It's a world where he must live by the show of his teeth, to use his talents as "talons" (PoS references "birds of prey" frequently, which I think stem's from Nietzsche's concept of sheep and birds of prey.) in order to make a superfluous living and buy those precious smiles.
And, truly? Do you really think that the lines "A governmental blade Drawn from its private sheath Quite a bargain I'd say, since either way You'll be living by the show of your teeth."
are not political?
I agree with @Longandweirdname and @remedie. If you listen to kingdom of loss on Scarsick, its even more evident that the subject was political.
I agree with @Longandweirdname and @remedie. If you listen to kingdom of loss on Scarsick, its even more evident that the subject was political.