The song's about time and its relation to death. Time's the longest mile. Some would like to dream that their time in life be sped along. Visions of heaven and angels throughout a eternal afterlife seem a reprieve from life's trials to most. Death well, no amount of chains, switched locks, shut windows, or dogs will keep it from you. In themselves, time and death embody one another. Their principle traits shared. Hence the regulator IS a pendulum. Due a bout of irony they've similar connotations within the song, but regulator in its simplest form's a person or thing that regulates "controls" an object. Regulators maintain order, depended on whether it's its own perspective or another's as to how order's deemed proper. As such, with every swing of the pendulum, a moment in time passes while bringing death nearer. There's no greater regulator than death, it controls time while time maintains its personification.
A truly chilling, yet poetic verse that happens to be a favorite song of my own.
The song's about time and its relation to death. Time's the longest mile. Some would like to dream that their time in life be sped along. Visions of heaven and angels throughout a eternal afterlife seem a reprieve from life's trials to most. Death well, no amount of chains, switched locks, shut windows, or dogs will keep it from you. In themselves, time and death embody one another. Their principle traits shared. Hence the regulator IS a pendulum. Due a bout of irony they've similar connotations within the song, but regulator in its simplest form's a person or thing that regulates "controls" an object. Regulators maintain order, depended on whether it's its own perspective or another's as to how order's deemed proper. As such, with every swing of the pendulum, a moment in time passes while bringing death nearer. There's no greater regulator than death, it controls time while time maintains its personification.
A truly chilling, yet poetic verse that happens to be a favorite song of my own.