Do you remember anyone here?
No you don't remember anything at all
I'm sleeping, I'm flat on my back
Never woke up, had no regrets
Death / Morpheus vs. waking/resurrection.The soul wiped clean of memory -- and yet the singer is also tormented my intensities of memory. This is a powerful dialectic tension within the song. The song is tragic and disturbing at its core.
Elysian Fields: Classical Greek notions of death-as-sleep, Hades & Sheol:
Take a walk through the land of shadows
Take a walk through the peaceful meadows
Don't look so disappointed
It isn't what you hoped for, is it?
The pastoral promises of Psalm 23
(He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me...) have vanished and there is a profound disturbance within the singer's soul.
There is a menace here - the peaceful Elysian grave can implode into a vision of hell and its torments. Maybe you have been lied to about the afterlife.
In the end, the singer is in an existential crisis of intensified nostalgia, worsened by insomnia, perhaps augmented by psychotropic substances (?)
Do you remember anyone here? No you don't remember anything at all I'm sleeping, I'm flat on my back Never woke up, had no regrets
Death / Morpheus vs. waking/resurrection.The soul wiped clean of memory -- and yet the singer is also tormented my intensities of memory. This is a powerful dialectic tension within the song. The song is tragic and disturbing at its core.
Elysian Fields: Classical Greek notions of death-as-sleep, Hades & Sheol:
Take a walk through the land of shadows Take a walk through the peaceful meadows Don't look so disappointed It isn't what you hoped for, is it?
The pastoral promises of Psalm 23 (He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me...) have vanished and there is a profound disturbance within the singer's soul.
There is a menace here - the peaceful Elysian grave can implode into a vision of hell and its torments. Maybe you have been lied to about the afterlife.
In the end, the singer is in an existential crisis of intensified nostalgia, worsened by insomnia, perhaps augmented by psychotropic substances (?)