Key Entity Extraction IV: Evagria the Faithful Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Cargonator 

Cover art for Key Entity Extraction IV: Evagria the Faithful lyrics by Coheed and Cambria

This is a song about Sirius talking to Mary. At the end of Vic the Butcher the All Mother tells Sirius he is not well, but yet he continues on. Each time he extracts an entity, it takes a part of his life as well. He thinks he is about to die, and that's where the chorus comes in, it's what he is saying to Mary. "And from the other side, she'll save me Her courage, strength and heart beyond I wish she'd stay mine, but her place is in some other time" i think this means that the love from Mary is keeping him going, but he knows he has been gone to long and she has probably found another love interest. (which she has in good night fair lady) he knows that Mary won't be waiting for him when he gets back "bodies separating, sit and release... reaching desperately to salvage anything" Like i said, he thinks he is about to die, thats why he keeps saying 'goodbye forever' but Mary is also saying to him "You won't be forgotten" because he is the only person who sought out to learn about the keywork and she will always love him, but she can't wait for him to get back

Song Meaning

SPOILER ALERT!!!! you are pretty close actually...sirius is not in a good state when the song starts. He witnesses an entity thats flickering in front of him, appearing and disappearing. So he reaches out to help this soul and on contact he can see what Evagria sees. Evagria is the Cop that who is now together with Mary, sirius wife. Evagria got shot either way by domino in the bankrobery or by holly wood on her killing spree. Evagria is deadly wounded and Mary is sitting next to his hospital bed. Sirius is angry at first when he finds out about...

I'm going to have to go with rizzosp on this one. I always just thought it was a matter of him seeing her in Evagria though, not that Evagria was the cop. I would think it's odd that these characters seem to be connected in some way. All of them are. You can basically hear them coming at the end of each of their songs. Vic's is just the most noticeable because you can hear his giant ass walking and talking at the end of Holly Wood.