First few lines referring to the ferryman of Styx? In Greece it was a custom to leave coins over the eyes of the dead so Charon would take the souls of the dead to the afterlife, but if you couldn't pay, you were left in a kind of purgatory to wander for eternity.
Here's where my memory gets fuzzy tho; i remember a bird being involved. A crow or raven perhaps? I thought the bird either collected the coins for Charon or it would steal them preventing the soul from entering the afterlife? Crows and ravens were regarded as a bad omen or even a symbol of death itself in literature and ancient mythology. "Nevermore" and such...
Of course i could just be remembering wrong. If i were right it could provide context to the lyrics....
First few lines referring to the ferryman of Styx? In Greece it was a custom to leave coins over the eyes of the dead so Charon would take the souls of the dead to the afterlife, but if you couldn't pay, you were left in a kind of purgatory to wander for eternity.
Here's where my memory gets fuzzy tho; i remember a bird being involved. A crow or raven perhaps? I thought the bird either collected the coins for Charon or it would steal them preventing the soul from entering the afterlife? Crows and ravens were regarded as a bad omen or even a symbol of death itself in literature and ancient mythology. "Nevermore" and such...
Of course i could just be remembering wrong. If i were right it could provide context to the lyrics....
fingers crossed