So after listening to this song a few times I have a feeling this song is about someone dealing with a death... a death of someone who is very important to them...
"You were cold as the blood through your bones
And the light which led us from our chosen homes
Well I was lost"
The first part of this is obviously a meaning for death... and the second line could mean the person "going to the light." The "chosen homes" being the persons flesh body. last line being that they were lost without the person.
"And now I sleep
Sleep the hours and that I don't weep
When all I knew was steeped in blackened holes
I was lost"
a Breakdown the person went to... locking themselves away because of this death, just sleeping, their waking hours only thinking about the person that died... the "blackened holes" could mean a grave...
The second verse seems to be the person kind of starting to get over that person, though they need time, they know all was well, and also have religion to help them...
I haven't actually worked the chorus into this theory, but it seems to be what I got...
Excellent read on what this song is driving at. I agree, this is a song about death, and the chorus fits in well with what you're offering here. I see the chorus as an invocation of some kind, a poetic verse cast in the style and posture of a prayer. "Keep the earth below my feet" is a reference to the grave; the kindred dead has been buried beneath the ground, in the earth, and this invocation is calling down the blessing of life. In other words, "Let me live" could be a more mundane way of saying the same...
Excellent read on what this song is driving at. I agree, this is a song about death, and the chorus fits in well with what you're offering here. I see the chorus as an invocation of some kind, a poetic verse cast in the style and posture of a prayer. "Keep the earth below my feet" is a reference to the grave; the kindred dead has been buried beneath the ground, in the earth, and this invocation is calling down the blessing of life. In other words, "Let me live" could be a more mundane way of saying the same thing.
"For all my sweat, my blood runs weak" could refer to the inevitability of death, that no matter what he does, he can feel himself approaching death.
"Let me learn from where I have been / Keep my eyes to serve, my hands to learn" might be a reference to afterlife or whatever outcome may befall after passing through the grave, he wishes for this life and wisdom to go with him, for what he has seen and done to not vanish with death, but continue, maybe even continue through others.
So after listening to this song a few times I have a feeling this song is about someone dealing with a death... a death of someone who is very important to them...
"You were cold as the blood through your bones And the light which led us from our chosen homes Well I was lost"
The first part of this is obviously a meaning for death... and the second line could mean the person "going to the light." The "chosen homes" being the persons flesh body. last line being that they were lost without the person.
"And now I sleep Sleep the hours and that I don't weep When all I knew was steeped in blackened holes I was lost"
a Breakdown the person went to... locking themselves away because of this death, just sleeping, their waking hours only thinking about the person that died... the "blackened holes" could mean a grave...
The second verse seems to be the person kind of starting to get over that person, though they need time, they know all was well, and also have religion to help them...
I haven't actually worked the chorus into this theory, but it seems to be what I got...
Excellent read on what this song is driving at. I agree, this is a song about death, and the chorus fits in well with what you're offering here. I see the chorus as an invocation of some kind, a poetic verse cast in the style and posture of a prayer. "Keep the earth below my feet" is a reference to the grave; the kindred dead has been buried beneath the ground, in the earth, and this invocation is calling down the blessing of life. In other words, "Let me live" could be a more mundane way of saying the same...
Excellent read on what this song is driving at. I agree, this is a song about death, and the chorus fits in well with what you're offering here. I see the chorus as an invocation of some kind, a poetic verse cast in the style and posture of a prayer. "Keep the earth below my feet" is a reference to the grave; the kindred dead has been buried beneath the ground, in the earth, and this invocation is calling down the blessing of life. In other words, "Let me live" could be a more mundane way of saying the same thing.
"For all my sweat, my blood runs weak" could refer to the inevitability of death, that no matter what he does, he can feel himself approaching death.
"Let me learn from where I have been / Keep my eyes to serve, my hands to learn" might be a reference to afterlife or whatever outcome may befall after passing through the grave, he wishes for this life and wisdom to go with him, for what he has seen and done to not vanish with death, but continue, maybe even continue through others.