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| Ramatheson, un utente del comatorio, si è messo ad analizzare riga per riga i pezzi dell'ultimo album. Copio/incollo, ovviamente sono da prendere con le superpinze che tutti avete in tasca quando si parla dei testi di Cedric, ma qualche spunto interessante c'è. Forse il problema di questa interpretazione (e delle altre della serie di Tamharreson) è il fatto di voler restare un po' troppo attaccati a quello che Omar e Cedric hanno rivelato sul concept, forzando i significati per trovare la quadratura del cerchio. A voi. CITAZIONE Ouroborous: This song starts of frantically. The band races off to pursue the plan of destroying the board. The song alternates viewpoints between the the daughter, Goliath, and the band. Ouroborous is a reference to a snake eating its tail, which symbolizes eternity. Goliath will live forever if something isn't done about it. This song focuses on the attempts by others to end Goliath's existence.
It appears to me
Quoting alarms
We begin with hearing from Goliath. “It” here is the plan the band made with the daughter spirit. Goliath has discovered their plan. The “alarm” has gone off, it has been “quoted,” as in, heard.
The guillotine smirks in
The “guillotine” here is the plan to kill Goliath. The guillotine represents death and destruction. Their plan to kill Goliath winks, or “smirks” at Goliath, letting him know what the plan is.
Your house I smothered
Goliath was made aware within the house he lives in. This is the board. It all took place within the board, which is occupied (“smothered”) by Goliath. Nothing can happen within the board without Goliath knowing about it.
Sight unseen
The band accepted the daughter spirit’s plan without really asking many questions.
Sworn to harm
The band and daughter have “sworn to harm” Goliath.
Ground to a powder
And soaked through the board
Image lines. The binding between Omar and the daughter spirit is represented by being ground together into a powder. Their plan is inexorably tied to the board.
Don’t you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy
The band has made a mistake. They trusted the voice they heard from within the board. Unfortunately, they didn’t realize that the daughter doesn’t exist. She is merely a piece of
Goliath’s memory. Now Omar is possessed by Goliath. In this line, Goliath is laughing at Omar.
When will you flirt with all that’s burning
Keep them safe and by your side
A message from the daughter. She begs the band to hurry and destroy the board. She asks, “When will you become acquainted with (flirt) the destruction (burn) of Goliath.” She reminds them to keep her by their side as she is their main ally against Goliath.
Of all that’s left
A lucid home
All that is left of the actual man who became Goliath is a thinking (“lucid”) spirit within a board, which is now his “home.”
Anecdote settles
The story (“anecdote”) has been told…
In the smear
Of this corpse
…through the revealing of the murders.
If the larvae speaks
Ask where to go
Goliath tells the band, “If the fragments of my consciouness (“larvae”) “speaks” to them, ask them where to go”
They mount the maker
With a sulphur in fume
”But remember that they only ride on my consciousness, and smell (“sulphur in fume”) of me, and so might lead you astray.” He is trying to put doubt into their minds.
Don’t you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy
See above.
Of all the warnings that you gave me
With all components in the fault
Have you heard me scraping
It'll be hard to hold
This is a line coming from the band. It is from the band to the daughter’s spirit. They are saying, “I know you gave us plenty of warnings, and we’ve put up all the protections and prayers against Goliath’s spirit (“components in the fault”). Daughter-spirit, can you still hear us call to you when our hands move across the board? It is hard to trust you know, and hard to talk to you because we don’t really trust you now. It is hard to tell which is you, and which is Goliath. It will be hard to stick to the plan if we can’t tell who is who. (“It’ll be hard to hold.”)”
All I hear
Mending the gap
From the daughter. She doesn’t care what they think, all she hears is that they might help her.
Fall in here
Might not make it back
She warns that they may not be able to succeed, and my end up trapped with her.
Call that someone
May they hear you
She tells them that they should offers prayers to whatever benevolent spirits they think may help.
Take me with you
It’s not safe in here
She pleads with them to succeed and free her from the board.
And all you ask is why
I’m certain you’re holding on
She is certain that they will not give up. She is sure that they will hold on to the plans they made, and see them through.
Mirror floats to the surface
Imagery line. She is reflecting their lives to them. How would they feel, in her situation?
Of all the warnings that you gave me
With all components in the fault
Have you heard me scraping
It'll be hard to hold
See above.
They lost the presence they were holding
Looks like the tenants flickered off
The daughter loses hope. She loses contact with the band here. The “tenants” of the board disappear (“flickered off”). She realizes that they “lost” touch with her and her spirit (“presence”).
If the cell that holds me breaks me
It will be hard to hold
As a last warning, she tells the band that if the "cell" that holds her (Goliath...remember, she is a spirit within him) breaks her, she will no longer be able to "hold" on and help the band. They must hurry. |
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