These comments are all really apt, but in the context of the album and its self-proclaimed adaptation of Orpheus & Eurydice, this song marks the moment after Orpheus has lost Eurydice to Hades forever, after which he pretty much wanders aimlessly into nothing until he's devoured by beasts. It's a bittersweet tragedy in which he laments his situation, but rejoices in its easy solution: death, where he can be reunited with his lost love for all eternity.
Really beautiful stuff. Makes a great story even better.
Interesting. He does mention the Kingdom, which would be out of place in a Greek myth, so perhaps he's 'Christianizing' the Greek myth. Can you elaborate a bit on how some of the lines of the songs match the elements of the myth?
Interesting. He does mention the Kingdom, which would be out of place in a Greek myth, so perhaps he's 'Christianizing' the Greek myth. Can you elaborate a bit on how some of the lines of the songs match the elements of the myth?
Yeah, in another song Orpheus goes down to Hell (instead of the Greek place - which I believe might be the Underworld?). But then, he also "hit a G-minor 7" and woke God up: "God was a major-player in Heaven." So, aside from writing kickass lines all over the place, he pretty much hakes up the whole Orpheus & Eurydice story wherever he likes.
Yeah, in another song Orpheus goes down to Hell (instead of the Greek place - which I believe might be the Underworld?). But then, he also "hit a G-minor 7" and woke God up: "God was a major-player in Heaven." So, aside from writing kickass lines all over the place, he pretty much hakes up the whole Orpheus & Eurydice story wherever he likes.
These comments are all really apt, but in the context of the album and its self-proclaimed adaptation of Orpheus & Eurydice, this song marks the moment after Orpheus has lost Eurydice to Hades forever, after which he pretty much wanders aimlessly into nothing until he's devoured by beasts. It's a bittersweet tragedy in which he laments his situation, but rejoices in its easy solution: death, where he can be reunited with his lost love for all eternity.
Really beautiful stuff. Makes a great story even better.
Interesting. He does mention the Kingdom, which would be out of place in a Greek myth, so perhaps he's 'Christianizing' the Greek myth. Can you elaborate a bit on how some of the lines of the songs match the elements of the myth?
Interesting. He does mention the Kingdom, which would be out of place in a Greek myth, so perhaps he's 'Christianizing' the Greek myth. Can you elaborate a bit on how some of the lines of the songs match the elements of the myth?
Yeah, in another song Orpheus goes down to Hell (instead of the Greek place - which I believe might be the Underworld?). But then, he also "hit a G-minor 7" and woke God up: "God was a major-player in Heaven." So, aside from writing kickass lines all over the place, he pretty much hakes up the whole Orpheus & Eurydice story wherever he likes.
Yeah, in another song Orpheus goes down to Hell (instead of the Greek place - which I believe might be the Underworld?). But then, he also "hit a G-minor 7" and woke God up: "God was a major-player in Heaven." So, aside from writing kickass lines all over the place, he pretty much hakes up the whole Orpheus & Eurydice story wherever he likes.