This song is so bittersweet. It's about loss but also about believing that sadness doesn't last forever.
Everything that is, dies. Everything that was, will be again.
To me, this song is about accepting your grief and pain, but looking towards a day you won't always feel this bad.
As someone who has lived a semi-nomadic life, I know that one of the quick and dirty solutions to a problem is to pick up and leave. Shake the dust from your feet and go. You stand a pretty good chance of creating that problem wherever you stop and settle (What was, will be!), but as long as the wheels are turning underneath you, "all demons die".
And as a musician, I love the line, "Harmony, you will be my bride." It doesn't have to literally be about music, if you prefer otherwise. Maybe think of harmony as the goodness and richness of life sailing along smoothly. If harmony of life is your bride, that is the thing to which you are joined and from which you will never be parted. That's what you're looking forward to, after all.
Of course, when the sun comes up on your last day, you have to die. Don't worry too much, though. It's just a "slumber". There's a million metaphors for this reincarnation: fortune's wheel, the circle of life, the spinning wheel. Those could also be the wheels under which all demons die.)
I think the "half breed odyssey" lines are a little more personal. GB is gypsy punk, the very definition of half breeds on an odyssey. Whether the orphan prophecy refers to someone in particular or to the stationary people they sing to, I don't know. It could refer to the sense of purpose we "civilized" people tend to feel about ourselves and our place in the world (prophecy) when we're really just orphans without guidance. We're all wanders- some people are just more honest about it than others. We all have to face our situations and ourselves eventually, though. Like the song says, "Our destiny we will not hide." When the sun comes up, we'll see things as they are. In our trouble, we look forward to comfort, but what we'll get is truth. We still hope for comfort, though, or maybe just an easing of sorrow. We hope that the two go hand in hand, or least are not incompatible.
This song is so bittersweet. It's about loss but also about believing that sadness doesn't last forever.
Everything that is, dies. Everything that was, will be again.
To me, this song is about accepting your grief and pain, but looking towards a day you won't always feel this bad.
As someone who has lived a semi-nomadic life, I know that one of the quick and dirty solutions to a problem is to pick up and leave. Shake the dust from your feet and go. You stand a pretty good chance of creating that problem wherever you stop and settle (What was, will be!), but as long as the wheels are turning underneath you, "all demons die".
And as a musician, I love the line, "Harmony, you will be my bride." It doesn't have to literally be about music, if you prefer otherwise. Maybe think of harmony as the goodness and richness of life sailing along smoothly. If harmony of life is your bride, that is the thing to which you are joined and from which you will never be parted. That's what you're looking forward to, after all.
Of course, when the sun comes up on your last day, you have to die. Don't worry too much, though. It's just a "slumber". There's a million metaphors for this reincarnation: fortune's wheel, the circle of life, the spinning wheel. Those could also be the wheels under which all demons die.)
I think the "half breed odyssey" lines are a little more personal. GB is gypsy punk, the very definition of half breeds on an odyssey. Whether the orphan prophecy refers to someone in particular or to the stationary people they sing to, I don't know. It could refer to the sense of purpose we "civilized" people tend to feel about ourselves and our place in the world (prophecy) when we're really just orphans without guidance. We're all wanders- some people are just more honest about it than others. We all have to face our situations and ourselves eventually, though. Like the song says, "Our destiny we will not hide." When the sun comes up, we'll see things as they are. In our trouble, we look forward to comfort, but what we'll get is truth. We still hope for comfort, though, or maybe just an easing of sorrow. We hope that the two go hand in hand, or least are not incompatible.