Lyrics
In the guts of a ship in the middle of the sea
In the core of a ship at sea, a ring is set up for rivals to be seen.
Stands a ring for the rivals for everyone to see.
Rivals spar, representing their inner conflicts for all to witness.
They spar around the center of their own duality.
They fight within the duality of their own nature.
The audience is full and pressed against the ropes,
An audience surrounds, eagerly watching, pressed against the ropes.
Chanting for the blood of the loser of the bout.
The crowd chants for the loser's blood in the bout.
The fighters are their fears and symbolize their hope,
The fighters embody fears and symbolize hope, wanting to escape but finding no way out.
They want to escape but there is no way out.
A desire to escape, but there's no exit.
The speaker and the spoke, the axle and the wheel.
Describing dualities: speaker and spoke, axle and wheel.
The teller and the tale, the flower and the bee.
More dualities: teller and tale, flower and bee.
The sword and the steel, the beast and the yoke.
Continuing dualities: sword and steel, beast and yoke.
The fish and the sea, the prisoner and the jail.
Additional dualities: fish and sea, prisoner and jail.
Like God asking Abraham to kill his only son,
Reference to God testing Abraham's devotion, seeking help and answers.
He cries out for help, he stares at the sun.
The plea for help, staring at the sun without getting answers.
He never gets an answer when the day finally comes.
No answers received when needed the most.
When David fought Goliath he wasn't bound to lines.
Comparison to David and Goliath, but now bound by rules and unable to succeed.
Now he'll never hit his mark, his opponent makes the rules.
The impossibility of hitting the mark due to opponent's rule-making.
He's a servant to the story and a gallery's confines,
Being confined to the story and the limitations of a gallery.
Drifting on a sea of words, trapped on a ship of fools.
Metaphorically drifting on a sea of words, trapped on a ship of fools.
The speaker and the spoke, the axle and the wheel.
Dualities reiterated: speaker and spoke, axle and wheel.
The teller and the tale, the flower and the bee.
More dualities: teller and tale, flower and bee.
The sword and the steel, the beast and the yoke.
Continuing dualities: sword and steel, beast and yoke.
The fish and the sea, the prisoner and the jail.
Additional dualities: fish and sea, prisoner and jail.
Sinking on the ship of fools. Sinking on the ship of fools.
Repetition of sinking on the ship of fools, emphasizing despair.
Sinking on the ship of fools. Sinking on the ship of fools.
-You clamor for an outcome, a candid dénouement.
Desire for a conclusive resolution, clamoring for an outcome.
The hunger for a resolution manifests the end.
The hunger for resolution signifies the approaching end.
It concludes with an ovation, clap the blood off of your hands.
Conclusion with applause, yet blood on hands suggests a grim resolution.
He knows he couldn't help her when she needed him the most.
A realization that he couldn't help when needed the most.
What he gave her won't undo the one thing that he took.
Actions given can't undo the irreversible loss.
He was the vine around a flower, love in a fatal dose,
Metaphor of love as a vine around a flower, fatal and not enduring.
So his story won't endure, the losers never write the books.
The losers are excluded from recording their stories in books.
The speaker and the spoke, the axle and the wheel.
Repetition of dualities: speaker and spoke, axle and wheel.
The teller and the tale, the flower and the bee.
More dualities: teller and tale, flower and bee.
The sword and the steel, the beast and the yoke.
Continuing dualities: sword and steel, beast and yoke.
The fish and the sea, the prisoner and the jail.
Additional dualities: fish and sea, prisoner and jail.
The fire and the smoke, the starved and the meal.
Expanding dualities: fire and smoke, starved and meal.
The head and the tail, the nut from the tree.
More dualities: head and tail, nut from the tree.
The wax and the seal, the dagger and the cloak.
Further dualities: wax and seal, dagger and cloak.
The loss and the grief, the hammer and the nail.
Final dualities: loss and grief, hammer and nail.
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