Great tune from their 1994 album. Obviously speaks of child abuse. Good story arc wherein the beginning is the outcry of injustice against the innocent kid, the black sun I assume is hell. Funny this came out right around when "Black Hole Sun" came out by Soundgarden. I think this is a far better song. The story arc occurs where the speech focuses on how the abused child turns into the seeker and executor of vengeance and/or the abuser clearly gets what's coming to them: justice. Generally, abuse takes on such cosmic, eerie, permanent meaning when it permeates in the child from not only the event itself but for years and years later, doing the real and permanent damage to the young adult's present and future, and adults often who never heal from the abuse. However, in this song, the adult abused child seems to have processed the past, and evolved. He/She now realizes THEY have tremendous power, and that the abuse is completely in the past, that their abuser can no longer hurt them. They speak of justice in return, but more importantly they speak about how THEY can now interpret the past differently and even sum it up so simply as "Yeah, you were a bully". And that's it - you were not a destroyer of me or my life, you were not a God, you were just a screwed up person who bullied a little kid. Great song, and I hope abused kids who are older now perhaps benefit even if only 1% from the way this song speaks to their pain and their personal power to overcome it and rewrite not only their past, but their future as well.
Great tune from their 1994 album. Obviously speaks of child abuse. Good story arc wherein the beginning is the outcry of injustice against the innocent kid, the black sun I assume is hell. Funny this came out right around when "Black Hole Sun" came out by Soundgarden. I think this is a far better song. The story arc occurs where the speech focuses on how the abused child turns into the seeker and executor of vengeance and/or the abuser clearly gets what's coming to them: justice. Generally, abuse takes on such cosmic, eerie, permanent meaning when it permeates in the child from not only the event itself but for years and years later, doing the real and permanent damage to the young adult's present and future, and adults often who never heal from the abuse. However, in this song, the adult abused child seems to have processed the past, and evolved. He/She now realizes THEY have tremendous power, and that the abuse is completely in the past, that their abuser can no longer hurt them. They speak of justice in return, but more importantly they speak about how THEY can now interpret the past differently and even sum it up so simply as "Yeah, you were a bully". And that's it - you were not a destroyer of me or my life, you were not a God, you were just a screwed up person who bullied a little kid. Great song, and I hope abused kids who are older now perhaps benefit even if only 1% from the way this song speaks to their pain and their personal power to overcome it and rewrite not only their past, but their future as well.