This song, in the most part, is sung from the perspective of Aristaeus, a key player in the story of Eurydice and Orpheus, and details unrequited love.
Eurydice claimed that Aristaeus was obsessed with her, and was chasing her - causing her to step on the poisoned snake which killed her. Eurydice therefore held Aristaeus responsible for her death in some versions of the Eurydice and Orpheus tale.
The awful sound mentioned numerous times here is variously; the noise of Orpheus' music wooing Eurydice, the silence with which Aristaeus' professions of love were met by Eurydice, and the noise of Eurydice's body as it hit the ground after being poisoned.
This "awful sound" has a dual meaning. It could also be the "awful sound" of modern life, therefore the first lines "You and I were born in a little town / Before the awful sound started coming down" hark back to a time of innocence and before the prevalence of the destructive modern forms of technology and communication which are recurring throughout Reflektor. Indeed the lines "I met you up upon a stage / Our love in a reflective age" are taken straight from the title track.
I see the song as being written from the perspective of Orpheus. The awful sound being the burden of carrying Eurydice (the tree of knowledge) through him, propelling him to his own repeating doom as Orpheus rendered, as Innana's corpse in suspension, as Wotan in suspension, and as Christ upon the world tree of the cross.
I see the song as being written from the perspective of Orpheus. The awful sound being the burden of carrying Eurydice (the tree of knowledge) through him, propelling him to his own repeating doom as Orpheus rendered, as Innana's corpse in suspension, as Wotan in suspension, and as Christ upon the world tree of the cross.
Eurydice is the song that fills the vessel, which seems real until brought by the vessel into the light of the living, then evaporates leaving the vessel to face the vitriol world alone. Hence . . . Why have you forsaken me?
Eurydice is the song that fills the vessel, which seems real until brought by the vessel into the light of the living, then evaporates leaving the vessel to face the vitriol world alone. Hence . . . Why have you forsaken me?
As a reflector....
As a reflector. He is surely the vessel. Without existential meaning until filled with the Muse's gaze. But when Eurydice evaporates at the threshold? And should the vessel refuses to fill, is this not the path of the Buddha, who is also married to the tree.
This song, in the most part, is sung from the perspective of Aristaeus, a key player in the story of Eurydice and Orpheus, and details unrequited love.
Eurydice claimed that Aristaeus was obsessed with her, and was chasing her - causing her to step on the poisoned snake which killed her. Eurydice therefore held Aristaeus responsible for her death in some versions of the Eurydice and Orpheus tale.
The awful sound mentioned numerous times here is variously; the noise of Orpheus' music wooing Eurydice, the silence with which Aristaeus' professions of love were met by Eurydice, and the noise of Eurydice's body as it hit the ground after being poisoned.
This "awful sound" has a dual meaning. It could also be the "awful sound" of modern life, therefore the first lines "You and I were born in a little town / Before the awful sound started coming down" hark back to a time of innocence and before the prevalence of the destructive modern forms of technology and communication which are recurring throughout Reflektor. Indeed the lines "I met you up upon a stage / Our love in a reflective age" are taken straight from the title track.
I disagree.
I disagree.
I see the song as being written from the perspective of Orpheus. The awful sound being the burden of carrying Eurydice (the tree of knowledge) through him, propelling him to his own repeating doom as Orpheus rendered, as Innana's corpse in suspension, as Wotan in suspension, and as Christ upon the world tree of the cross.
I see the song as being written from the perspective of Orpheus. The awful sound being the burden of carrying Eurydice (the tree of knowledge) through him, propelling him to his own repeating doom as Orpheus rendered, as Innana's corpse in suspension, as Wotan in suspension, and as Christ upon the world tree of the cross.
Eurydice is the song that fills the vessel, which seems real until brought by the vessel into the light of the living, then evaporates leaving the vessel to face the vitriol world alone. Hence . . . Why have you forsaken me?
Eurydice is the song that fills the vessel, which seems real until brought by the vessel into the light of the living, then evaporates leaving the vessel to face the vitriol world alone. Hence . . . Why have you forsaken me?
As a reflector....
As a reflector. He is surely the vessel. Without existential meaning until filled with the Muse's gaze. But when Eurydice evaporates at the threshold? And should the vessel refuses to fill, is this not the path of the Buddha, who is also married to the tree.