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Post by methamphetamine on May 23, 2021 19:34:10 GMT -5
Actually I have more problems with literal then the meaning itself. I guess it's a lot about drugs but I'd like to literally understand it/translate it to my native language.
The Primitives Forget your family son The face on the clock, your foreign body The ship is just a frame Pinpoint eyes, seething decks and pain
You wonder how it should be You wonder how it should go Then deny no loathsome thing Hands beyond hands beyond oblivion swing
Forget your yesterdays son The face on the clock, your foreign body The ship is just a frame Pinpoint eyes, seething decks and pain
on the clock 1. Currently engaged in work during one's normal working day or assigned hours. I also made a mental connection with "Death is my due" from Drunk on Destruction.
Seething decks? I understand pintpoint eyes are small pupils, pain is pain, but what are decks? Cards? Aboards? Both would work as someting seething and unsteady.
The ship is just a frame? Please help. Is deceiving? Is an empty shell? I don't even know what's a ship (but I know somewhere a ship comes in every day).
Hands beyond hands beyond oblivion swing ... it's taking numb, careless risks again and again.
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Post by reznore on May 24, 2021 4:33:57 GMT -5
It's really hard to make literal traduction when it comes to songs, poetry, or even sometimes comedy stuff. There can be a lot of metaphors/word plays. My native language isn't english either. The face on the clock = I guess seeing your face aging ? Or it's time to go to work. The ship is just a frame = a ship is a boat. Wether the ship is his life journey or his means of escape...I think "just a frame" is a way to distance himself from whatever is going on. "Your foreign body" just before could be about this as well. Seething decks = hard to say. It could be about getting to work on the "ship" , and there's lots of activities. I think seething is often about boiling water or anger so it's not really something joyful. Hands beyond hands ...= could be about rowing the ship. I guess the somewhat literal meaning, is the person leave his family/problem behind and go on a ship to who knows where (probably hell ), he's in bad shape, and just row mindlessly away. Trying to distance himself from his past, and even his own body.
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