Swallowing Spiders
Oceanic Lament: Haunting Tales of Seaweed, Spirits, and Spiders
Lyrics
Early in the morning in the mist
Early morning in misty conditions.
When the tide comes in and conditions exist
Referencing the tide and specific conditions.
If the moon is right, you can stand right beside her
Under the right lunar circumstances, standing beside a woman.
And gaze upon them as they swallow down the spiders
Observing eerie scenes of women consuming spiders.
Ghoulish apparitions of women
Describing ghostly female figures.
Long dead, grey and glowing much thinner
Portraying deceased, pale, and slender women.
Vengeful
Characterizing the spirits as vengeful.
On the shoreline
Located on the shoreline.
Eyes are trancelike
Trance-like eyes of the apparitions.
Hands are full of spiders
Hands of the spirits are filled with spiders.
Watch them laugh as they eat
Observing the spirits' laughter during the spider consumption.
At their feet, foaming water
Depicting foaming water at the spirits' feet.
Incomplete, missing teeth, flaking skin
Describing incomplete, decaying physical appearances.
Wretched seahag
Referring to a repulsive sea witch.
Boiling the pools of saltwater
Boiling saltwater in pools by the sea witch.
The vapors in my sinuses awaken me
Sensory experience of vapors affecting sinuses.
Their voices take the place of the pressure in my head
Voices of the spirits replacing pressure in the head.
Walking forward, I leave the land behind
Transitioning from land to the underwater realm.
And slip below the shallows in their silence
Submerging beneath the surface in silence.
I can hear below the rolling waves
Hearing voices beneath the rolling waves.
A chorus of their voices call to me
A collective voice of the spirits calling to the observer.
Undertow pulls me down, an embrace from the gravity of water
Being pulled underwater by the undertow, symbolizing the gravitational force of water.
Lured here by the longing voice of a dead mans wife and daughters
Drawn to the haunting voice of a deceased man's wife and daughters.
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