I can help but think this is about environmentalism, specifically the intergenerational problem. The general idea is that as we pollute more and more, we'll essentially have a desolate, nearly uninhabitable earth for future generations. With this background...
"There was a single one..." = We're populating and populating to the point of overpopulation, a huge factor of pollution.
"...But their offspring love them" = As humans, we have every right and drive to love each other and reproduce, and we deserve to have children as well, who love them back.
"Marriage of eagle and snake...offpsring is blank" = 'Eagle and snake' could be a historical nod or some sort of folk lore, but I just take it to be stylistic and add it to the dramatic foreboding sort of vibe of the song. Anyway, the parents are fertile and all is well, but their offspring will be moot if there is no earth to inhabit.
"Fire rages on...heat feels alright" = We're okay or at least blissfully unaware of the destruction we're doomed to cause. Which segues nicely into...
"can't recognize our poverty"
"Darkness...silence that can swallow sound" = Another apocalyptic picture of reality, presumably as a means of our pollution.
I also think that the form of the lyrics are telling. It goes from identification of life and fertility to merely mentioning a sort of 'erased' reality. In that sense, it also drives the point home.
All in all, I take it to be 'we're destroying ourselves,' but we're so conflicted by the very clear right to love and reproduction that we undoubtedly have.
I can help but think this is about environmentalism, specifically the intergenerational problem. The general idea is that as we pollute more and more, we'll essentially have a desolate, nearly uninhabitable earth for future generations. With this background...
"There was a single one..." = We're populating and populating to the point of overpopulation, a huge factor of pollution.
"...But their offspring love them" = As humans, we have every right and drive to love each other and reproduce, and we deserve to have children as well, who love them back.
"Marriage of eagle and snake...offpsring is blank" = 'Eagle and snake' could be a historical nod or some sort of folk lore, but I just take it to be stylistic and add it to the dramatic foreboding sort of vibe of the song. Anyway, the parents are fertile and all is well, but their offspring will be moot if there is no earth to inhabit.
"Fire rages on...heat feels alright" = We're okay or at least blissfully unaware of the destruction we're doomed to cause. Which segues nicely into...
"can't recognize our poverty"
"Darkness...silence that can swallow sound" = Another apocalyptic picture of reality, presumably as a means of our pollution.
I also think that the form of the lyrics are telling. It goes from identification of life and fertility to merely mentioning a sort of 'erased' reality. In that sense, it also drives the point home.
All in all, I take it to be 'we're destroying ourselves,' but we're so conflicted by the very clear right to love and reproduction that we undoubtedly have.
@Jezro humans don't deserve to have children. that's your anthrocentrism coming out.
@Jezro humans don't deserve to have children. that's your anthrocentrism coming out.