There's some killer references to Norse mythology in here:
/ Self crucified - missed the right tree /
/Tore the wrong eye out /
Odin hanged himself on a tree with a spear in his side to gain knowledge. He also gave up an eye to drink from the well of Mimir, also to gain knowledge.
The writer here is using this image to say that he tried to gain knowledge and wisdom about the world/his existence, but that he learned all the wrong things - hanged from the wrong tree, tore the wrong eye out. He is saying that the things he learned are meaningless, or disturbing, or that like Pandora's Box, once opened cannot be restored.
/ For this I have gained a victory
I burn as I ought to /
Now with this knowledge of stones better left unturned, he will suffer until the end of his life about the world, existence, and the futility of humankind.
Very fitting as the closer to an album about exercises in futility.
There's some killer references to Norse mythology in here:
/ Self crucified - missed the right tree / /Tore the wrong eye out /
Odin hanged himself on a tree with a spear in his side to gain knowledge. He also gave up an eye to drink from the well of Mimir, also to gain knowledge.
The writer here is using this image to say that he tried to gain knowledge and wisdom about the world/his existence, but that he learned all the wrong things - hanged from the wrong tree, tore the wrong eye out. He is saying that the things he learned are meaningless, or disturbing, or that like Pandora's Box, once opened cannot be restored.
/ For this I have gained a victory I burn as I ought to /
Now with this knowledge of stones better left unturned, he will suffer until the end of his life about the world, existence, and the futility of humankind.
Very fitting as the closer to an album about exercises in futility.
@diligentia thank you for writing this, I didn't understand this reference before!
@diligentia thank you for writing this, I didn't understand this reference before!