I always look at their songs from a horror/fantasy story view.
This song always makes me think of the movie hellraiser and the lament configuration.
I feel that the song tells the story of several people investigating urban legends and becoming part of them.
The path under the city, the girl under the river, and the burning black house. Each of the people encounters some sort of entity, the first tries to hide in the dark, hysterically saying "I wanna go home" that she doesn't want to be there anymore, knowing that she shouldn't have investigated the legend or "opened the puzzle box." In the end she is killed, her eyes turning grey in death like the black and white photo of her in the paper reporting her dead or missing.
The rest of the verses follow suit. With the verse about the place they can all be together possibly being a subconscious thought implanted by the entity, the something in the dark, once they've been terrified enough to give up.
I always look at their songs from a horror/fantasy story view.
This song always makes me think of the movie hellraiser and the lament configuration.
I feel that the song tells the story of several people investigating urban legends and becoming part of them.
The path under the city, the girl under the river, and the burning black house. Each of the people encounters some sort of entity, the first tries to hide in the dark, hysterically saying "I wanna go home" that she doesn't want to be there anymore, knowing that she shouldn't have investigated the legend or "opened the puzzle box." In the end she is killed, her eyes turning grey in death like the black and white photo of her in the paper reporting her dead or missing.
The rest of the verses follow suit. With the verse about the place they can all be together possibly being a subconscious thought implanted by the entity, the something in the dark, once they've been terrified enough to give up.