This site getting rid of all paragraphs is not cool.
I'm going, as I always do, with what I think I am not stating this is the actual interpretation. A few reasons for this. One is I'm not convinced that musicians always tell the truth about what their music is about. If you wrote a song about your crazy ex or some sort of dangerous criminal would you say this? Secondly, this is how I get value from all music, what does it emotionally mean to me?:
"A last fire will rise behind those eyes
Black house will rock, blind boys don't lie
Immortal fear, that voice so clear
Through broken walls, that scream I hear"
The fear is 'immortal', because the child is young. Fear when we are that age, is all encompassing. "Blind boys don't lie" is that the boy is told that he should not look at something, perhaps his sister being beaten up. The last line is self explanatory. The first line hints at there being a death in the house, perhaps from abuse. But it could also be that the boy is dying inside due to child abuse. Becoming a broken person.
"Blue masquerade, strangers look on
When will they learn this loneliness?
Temptation heat beats like a drum
Deep in your veins, I will not lie"
'Strangers look on' is one of the really strong things that children that are abused remember. Strangers often cannot help and when they try to they make it worse. But even so there is a strong emotional impression in the child that adults do not do anything to help them.
"When will they learn this loneliness". Having to keep a secret like this means you can't connect with others.
"Temptations heat beats like a drum, deep in your veins I will not lie".
I am thinking a rythmic beat of the drum is indicating exactly what we might think in our darker visions, I can't think of another interpretation for that line. I am hoping that the brother has not succumbed to temptation (although this might be indicated by the Shangri La paragraph) but it is in fact someone, likely the parent, that is working on the sister and that he is commenting on this.
"My Shangri-Las
I can't forget
Why you were mine
I need you now"
Another interpretation of this could be that the brother has now escaped and no longer has contact with the sister. One of the upsetting things in abusive families is that there are different ways these things can be handled and some obsessively praise their abusers. So if you have one sibling that thinks rightly that physically and otherwise abusive parents should be cut out of ones life, but then another sibling has praised the abusers then the siblings can't connect. Or it could simply be that they don't like to contact each other but he misses her. Too many memories.
Also, something else worth mentioning. He says "Why you were mine". His sister needed and confided in him only for the reason that she was being abused, in this analogy. They have not had a normal childhood where they could partially bond, but an over intense closeness from an abusive environment. So the reason "why" is literally haunting.
I prefer the interpretation where it was not the brother succumbing to temptation.
"Cry, little sister - Thou shall not fall
Come, come to your brother - Thou shall not fly
Unchain me, sister - Thou shall not fear
Love is with your brother - Thou shall not kill"
This is the discussion of not taking revenge at the abusive parent. Thou shalt not kill literally. The brother perhaps would have liked to have stopped the sisters assault by killing the adult male, or more likely attempting to kill the adult male figure and getting himself killed, instead, he cousels her. He tells her to cry and not hold it all in.
[Edit: Added a paragraph starting: Also something else worth mentioning.]
This site getting rid of all paragraphs is not cool.
I'm going, as I always do, with what I think I am not stating this is the actual interpretation. A few reasons for this. One is I'm not convinced that musicians always tell the truth about what their music is about. If you wrote a song about your crazy ex or some sort of dangerous criminal would you say this? Secondly, this is how I get value from all music, what does it emotionally mean to me?:
"A last fire will rise behind those eyes Black house will rock, blind boys don't lie Immortal fear, that voice so clear Through broken walls, that scream I hear"
The fear is 'immortal', because the child is young. Fear when we are that age, is all encompassing. "Blind boys don't lie" is that the boy is told that he should not look at something, perhaps his sister being beaten up. The last line is self explanatory. The first line hints at there being a death in the house, perhaps from abuse. But it could also be that the boy is dying inside due to child abuse. Becoming a broken person.
"Blue masquerade, strangers look on When will they learn this loneliness? Temptation heat beats like a drum Deep in your veins, I will not lie"
'Strangers look on' is one of the really strong things that children that are abused remember. Strangers often cannot help and when they try to they make it worse. But even so there is a strong emotional impression in the child that adults do not do anything to help them.
"When will they learn this loneliness". Having to keep a secret like this means you can't connect with others.
"Temptations heat beats like a drum, deep in your veins I will not lie".
I am thinking a rythmic beat of the drum is indicating exactly what we might think in our darker visions, I can't think of another interpretation for that line. I am hoping that the brother has not succumbed to temptation (although this might be indicated by the Shangri La paragraph) but it is in fact someone, likely the parent, that is working on the sister and that he is commenting on this.
"My Shangri-Las I can't forget Why you were mine I need you now"
Another interpretation of this could be that the brother has now escaped and no longer has contact with the sister. One of the upsetting things in abusive families is that there are different ways these things can be handled and some obsessively praise their abusers. So if you have one sibling that thinks rightly that physically and otherwise abusive parents should be cut out of ones life, but then another sibling has praised the abusers then the siblings can't connect. Or it could simply be that they don't like to contact each other but he misses her. Too many memories.
Also, something else worth mentioning. He says "Why you were mine". His sister needed and confided in him only for the reason that she was being abused, in this analogy. They have not had a normal childhood where they could partially bond, but an over intense closeness from an abusive environment. So the reason "why" is literally haunting.
I prefer the interpretation where it was not the brother succumbing to temptation.
"Cry, little sister - Thou shall not fall Come, come to your brother - Thou shall not fly Unchain me, sister - Thou shall not fear Love is with your brother - Thou shall not kill"
This is the discussion of not taking revenge at the abusive parent. Thou shalt not kill literally. The brother perhaps would have liked to have stopped the sisters assault by killing the adult male, or more likely attempting to kill the adult male figure and getting himself killed, instead, he cousels her. He tells her to cry and not hold it all in.
[Edit: Added a paragraph starting: Also something else worth mentioning.]