I was listening this (one of my favourite songs) and I found it to be more straightforward than I previously thought. I think it talks about a man who threw himself over a bridge, the bottom of the bridge is perhaps unreachable so they tow him using a harness or something like that.
The song describes the chalk outline drawn by the police who found the body, and describes the forensic report, how his face was crushed against the asphalt (his teeth broke and fell, his jaw was splitted in two) .
Perhaps the part that speaks is an hypotesis on how he killed himself and his last thoughts or even by someone who saw him killing himself:
"You should have seen
The curse that flew right by you
Page of concrete
Stain walks crutch in hobbled sway
Autodafe
A capulary hint of red
Everyone knows the last toes are
Always the coldest to go"
Refers to the fear of killing himself, the curse is the fear of imagining himself hitting the concrete (or perhaps is the police asking someone that should have seen him as he fell).
"Stain walks crutch in hobbled sway" the fear to death makes him nervous and he can't even walk straight, the "auto da fe" is a leap of faith ( for freeing himself from this world) "capulary hint of red" he imagines the blood spilled against the concrete.
"Everyone knows the last toes are Always the coldest to go"; the moment of the last step into the void becomes eternal, the toes that are still on the bridge/platform feel cold and are harder to move because even this far he's still afraid of death.
I was listening this (one of my favourite songs) and I found it to be more straightforward than I previously thought. I think it talks about a man who threw himself over a bridge, the bottom of the bridge is perhaps unreachable so they tow him using a harness or something like that.
The song describes the chalk outline drawn by the police who found the body, and describes the forensic report, how his face was crushed against the asphalt (his teeth broke and fell, his jaw was splitted in two) .
Perhaps the part that speaks is an hypotesis on how he killed himself and his last thoughts or even by someone who saw him killing himself: "You should have seen The curse that flew right by you Page of concrete Stain walks crutch in hobbled sway Autodafe A capulary hint of red Everyone knows the last toes are Always the coldest to go"
Refers to the fear of killing himself, the curse is the fear of imagining himself hitting the concrete (or perhaps is the police asking someone that should have seen him as he fell).
"Stain walks crutch in hobbled sway" the fear to death makes him nervous and he can't even walk straight, the "auto da fe" is a leap of faith ( for freeing himself from this world) "capulary hint of red" he imagines the blood spilled against the concrete.
"Everyone knows the last toes are Always the coldest to go"; the moment of the last step into the void becomes eternal, the toes that are still on the bridge/platform feel cold and are harder to move because even this far he's still afraid of death.