I had listened to this song in passing and today as I was walking down the sidewalk the gorgeous opening riff/whistle came into my head. It took my a minute to place it...
Josh Pyke says this song was inspired by a gruesome painting of Clovis' murdered sons, a story that turned out to be mere legend. "History has its own version of the truth." (From an interview on thebrag(dot)com.)
I did find this on Wikipedia though: "Clovis would send gifts and money to the nobles and those responsible for protecting a rival king, to bribe them to betray their king, or he would tell a rival king's son that if the son killed his royal father, Clovis would support the son's ascent to the throne and the son would gain an alliance with Clovis. However when the son had killed his father Clovis would reveal the son's crime, have the son murdered and take over the kingdom without much opposition."
This could give "set me lose, like Clovis' sons" a haunting echo of naivety, temptation, and betrayal.
The entire song gives me a sense of the way we distort memories according to our own interpretation of events. We often do it with those closest to us, to those we have grown with.
"How are we ever gonna get any better
If we're always in the same room?"
I had listened to this song in passing and today as I was walking down the sidewalk the gorgeous opening riff/whistle came into my head. It took my a minute to place it...
Josh Pyke says this song was inspired by a gruesome painting of Clovis' murdered sons, a story that turned out to be mere legend. "History has its own version of the truth." (From an interview on thebrag(dot)com.)
I did find this on Wikipedia though: "Clovis would send gifts and money to the nobles and those responsible for protecting a rival king, to bribe them to betray their king, or he would tell a rival king's son that if the son killed his royal father, Clovis would support the son's ascent to the throne and the son would gain an alliance with Clovis. However when the son had killed his father Clovis would reveal the son's crime, have the son murdered and take over the kingdom without much opposition."
This could give "set me lose, like Clovis' sons" a haunting echo of naivety, temptation, and betrayal.
The entire song gives me a sense of the way we distort memories according to our own interpretation of events. We often do it with those closest to us, to those we have grown with.
"How are we ever gonna get any better If we're always in the same room?"