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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Oct 16, 2022 ^^
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A dozen crows and then some
On the rhododendrons
In the cemetery where I lay
Like Rebecca reigning over Manderley
My foot fell upon your grave
Like a pressure point
Hidden beneath the soil
Down came sheets of pouring hail
I sheltered in the church's archway then
From the shards of glass falling so pale
And I looked up, and saw the sun, it separated all the colors
And the ice, into my eyes
It fell and left me blind
That was the last thing that I saw
The fractured glass in its downpour
I felt the blood mix with the water
And I didn't see no more
I came across an injured dove
I wanted to put her out of her misery
There came no signal from above
No sign, no guide, I thought whatever could this mean
And with my hand I picked her up
And in that moment, oh it shifted magically
For when her feathers felt my touch
I saw her a demon
Feathers, they turned black
Oh she was no Phoenix, but a creature of the ash
I let her go, she hit the ground
I heard the thud, regained her color
Saw the scars she had been bound, by someone and left to die
I never really found that dove
Its just a story I made up
Because I wanted all of this to stop
And I didn't know how to tell you
I didn't know how
Oh I didn't know how
And I looked up, into the sun, it separated all the colors
And the ice into my eyes, it fell and left me blind
And I looked up, and saw the sun, it separated all the colors
And the ice into my eyes, it fell and changed my mind
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I haven't found anything about this, but does anyone see the ice blinding as a reference to the snow queen and the mirror splinters that distorts your perception of people. It also sounds like a metaphor for gaslighting in an abusive relationship and how the beauty of love and the person you love can distort the true reality of them and their actions. Anyway i love this song
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@koboldcatgirl
7 months ago
What fascinates me is how this song was written to be almost entirely literal and yet takes on so much meaning from listeners who don't know that. Like, for me, this song was (and still kind of is) about this very self-destructive inability to empathize with oneself, maybe with some BPD vibes. The dove that turns into a monster and then back into a dove as the singer struggles to communicate how hard it can be to hold onto the nuances of color, to see the good in something--including the self--when the brain just won't cooperate. It reminds me a lot of that dodie line in Monster, "All of our scars are looking more like scales."
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