Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
It hung heavy on the tree above your head
This chaos, this calamity, this garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me; I'll set you up against the stars
Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive
Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
And there is discord in the garden tonight
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
I cut the arrow from your neck
Stretched you beneath the tree
Among the roots and baby's breath
I covered us with silver leaves
Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
The sea is wine red (Gloria, we lied)
This is the death of beauty (we lied, this is the time and place)
The doves have died (Gloria, we lied)
The lovers have lied (this is the time and place)
Who missed the crimson apple?
It hung heavy on the tree above your head
This chaos, this calamity, this garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me; I'll set you up against the stars
Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive
Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
And there is discord in the garden tonight
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
I cut the arrow from your neck
Stretched you beneath the tree
Among the roots and baby's breath
I covered us with silver leaves
Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
The sea is wine red (Gloria, we lied)
This is the death of beauty (we lied, this is the time and place)
The doves have died (Gloria, we lied)
The lovers have lied (this is the time and place)
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Who missed the crimson apple?
It hung heavy on the tree above your head
- the first two questions are for consciences of Adam and Eve
for they had just eaten what was forbidden.
Apple was hung heavy on the tree
It was heavy for its price of sin
This chaos, this calamity
This garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me
I'll set you up against the stars
- The original sin brought the chaos into the garden
it was the perfect garden made by God
Because they did what they were not supposed to do
they were set up against the stars which means that they are not against the fate
Gloria, we lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive
- They lied and the price for sin is death
It is the grief of people who inherited the original sin
Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
And there is discord in the garden tonight
- there are questions again for conscience and to remind what they did
There was a disagreement between Adam and Eve about who ate the apple first
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died, the lovers have lied
- The wine red sea represents the blood of christ which saved human being from sin
He died to save us
His death was beautiful
When he was hung on the cross, disciples, lovers of God, lied and seemed like peace was over
I cut the arrow from your neck
Stretched you beneath the tree
Among the roots and Baby's Breath
I covered us with silver leaves
- right after the blood part the the lyrics
it says that 'I cut the arrow from your neck'
it means that he took the sins away from us and we are clean again
He pulled us from the hell down the ground and trees
among all the harships and innocences
he was the silver leaves which can save us and which was the way
I also think that Baby's breath represents the baby jesus
Gloria, we lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive
- they lied, and we could not go on
it was the place for us to live
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died, the lovers have lied (x2)
- Jesus died for us and we are whole again
The sea is wine red
(Gloria, we lied)
This is the death of beauty
(This is the time and place)
The doves have died
(Gloria, we lied)
The lovers have lied
(This is the time and place)
there is that famous scene where odysseus strings his bow and shoots alcinous in the neck in the courtyard (garden) and the lovers have lied, odysseus slept with others (circe, calyspo, ect.)but this is the reunion of them
in the olden days friends used to do a ' trust test'. one person had to stand up against a tree with an apple on their head while the other person shot an arrow through the apple...
i think maybe the song is about betrayed trust and how nothing looks beautiful and innocent anymore. i think it's using holy references to show the scale of the betreyal to the person?
.:lFANTABULOUSl:.
i wonder *face of hard concentration* with the subtle biblical references running throughout the song, could it have something to do with the world and ultimatly the effect we humans are having on it (this chaos this clamity, this garden once was perfect) or maybe an ending relationship which was they whole world metaphorically (this is the death of beauty/the lovers have lied)
it was awasome
Whos gloria??
revelation kind of thing??
the sea is red -- Blood
The doves have died-- end of peace or a period
This garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me
religios song
i seem to b hearig a ot of biblical things on that show