"steel that sleeps with the morningstar
would that i could sin once more"
steel that sleeps is steel that puts the eye to sleep forever, the skin of a grenade. an rpg.
it sleeps until it detonates. the moningstar is venus which could mean at dusk or dawn.
could sin once more is to see once more.
"blades will sing over stone and field
that their song might grace our fall"
this makes total sense. blades are sharp steel fragments racing over the desert sand and rocks
their song is the whistling sound of approaching shrapnel and that it might make grace the injury with honor
"pallid limbs in the raven's thrall
fracture sulphur honey skin"
pallid limbs are injured pale dull lifeless extensions of a man injured in the line of fire
fracture (injury) sulphur (burns, smoke from grenade in lungs) honey skin (soft fragile breakable skin)
"waves are screaming abraxan hymns
so that shoreline virgins cry"
waves on the beach or waves of pain always scream abraxan hymns: because the tide itself is a duality.
tide in tide out, shoreline virgins are those who are waiting, injured ready to be brought home from war.
we first have to go to the shore - the persian gulf possibly? just a guess.
"reel in place
'til the bastards take me away
sober taste of the eye"
reeling in place is mental reeling from tormenting pain of a serious injury, the bastards are taking the injured away from the fight that the injured wanted to fight back so they are bastards - but yet saviors as well.
sober taste of the eye is just that - bleeding in windpipe and actually tasting blood and optic nerve bleeding, which is a sobering taste.
I think this is a most powerful song in it's meaning and i hope i am not too far off.
That is just what i hear knowing that Peter Adams was injured by an RPG in Iraq and took some time away
it must be very relevant to the band, and they are now finally back playing together like they were when they first met.
"steel that sleeps with the morningstar would that i could sin once more"
steel that sleeps is steel that puts the eye to sleep forever, the skin of a grenade. an rpg. it sleeps until it detonates. the moningstar is venus which could mean at dusk or dawn. could sin once more is to see once more.
"blades will sing over stone and field that their song might grace our fall"
this makes total sense. blades are sharp steel fragments racing over the desert sand and rocks their song is the whistling sound of approaching shrapnel and that it might make grace the injury with honor
"pallid limbs in the raven's thrall fracture sulphur honey skin"
pallid limbs are injured pale dull lifeless extensions of a man injured in the line of fire fracture (injury) sulphur (burns, smoke from grenade in lungs) honey skin (soft fragile breakable skin)
"waves are screaming abraxan hymns so that shoreline virgins cry"
waves on the beach or waves of pain always scream abraxan hymns: because the tide itself is a duality. tide in tide out, shoreline virgins are those who are waiting, injured ready to be brought home from war. we first have to go to the shore - the persian gulf possibly? just a guess.
"reel in place 'til the bastards take me away sober taste of the eye"
reeling in place is mental reeling from tormenting pain of a serious injury, the bastards are taking the injured away from the fight that the injured wanted to fight back so they are bastards - but yet saviors as well. sober taste of the eye is just that - bleeding in windpipe and actually tasting blood and optic nerve bleeding, which is a sobering taste.
I think this is a most powerful song in it's meaning and i hope i am not too far off. That is just what i hear knowing that Peter Adams was injured by an RPG in Iraq and took some time away it must be very relevant to the band, and they are now finally back playing together like they were when they first met.
Either way you slice it great band indeed!