i think thi song is just the dear hunter just after having his father talk about doin his mother in such a dergetory manor. the first two sections are about that realy. then he begins to reflect on how life is a bit shit for him and all the soldiers. dreaming of a place where life is beautiful.
the last bit is him perhaps wishing to forget about all the things that have happened to him, refering to them as
"Forget the words to the songs that we've heard
The passages read all the names in a world"
this also reflects what he says in "red hands" that "maby this is just a work of art, scripted players in a play of lust" that he sees his life as a performance (which ironicaly it is =P)
About the last bit...the band says the boy considers going to his half-brother's mother and pretending to be him (since she doesn't know of his existence, and they look alike). So he's talking about "forcing a smile" and pretending "we're" alive, none of this happened, the bullets removed themselves - then he'll have a home above the lake with his stepmother...
About the last bit...the band says the boy considers going to his half-brother's mother and pretending to be him (since she doesn't know of his existence, and they look alike). So he's talking about "forcing a smile" and pretending "we're" alive, none of this happened, the bullets removed themselves - then he'll have a home above the lake with his stepmother...
Ending up with a summary of all the pain this would turn away from: his own painful "passages" (history), his brother's death, his father's cold calloused heart to the brother's death - he'll abandon...
Ending up with a summary of all the pain this would turn away from: his own painful "passages" (history), his brother's death, his father's cold calloused heart to the brother's death - he'll abandon his old life that he was at war to run away from anyways.
The last line is a cynical narrator's aside about how naive the boy is to think taking his brother's identity will solve all his problems.
i think thi song is just the dear hunter just after having his father talk about doin his mother in such a dergetory manor. the first two sections are about that realy. then he begins to reflect on how life is a bit shit for him and all the soldiers. dreaming of a place where life is beautiful.
the last bit is him perhaps wishing to forget about all the things that have happened to him, refering to them as "Forget the words to the songs that we've heard The passages read all the names in a world" this also reflects what he says in "red hands" that "maby this is just a work of art, scripted players in a play of lust" that he sees his life as a performance (which ironicaly it is =P)
About the last bit...the band says the boy considers going to his half-brother's mother and pretending to be him (since she doesn't know of his existence, and they look alike). So he's talking about "forcing a smile" and pretending "we're" alive, none of this happened, the bullets removed themselves - then he'll have a home above the lake with his stepmother...
About the last bit...the band says the boy considers going to his half-brother's mother and pretending to be him (since she doesn't know of his existence, and they look alike). So he's talking about "forcing a smile" and pretending "we're" alive, none of this happened, the bullets removed themselves - then he'll have a home above the lake with his stepmother...
Ending up with a summary of all the pain this would turn away from: his own painful "passages" (history), his brother's death, his father's cold calloused heart to the brother's death - he'll abandon...
Ending up with a summary of all the pain this would turn away from: his own painful "passages" (history), his brother's death, his father's cold calloused heart to the brother's death - he'll abandon his old life that he was at war to run away from anyways.
The last line is a cynical narrator's aside about how naive the boy is to think taking his brother's identity will solve all his problems.