Questions about lyrics

[methamphetamine]

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.

[reznore]

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.