The Rivers Run Red
Moonlit Love: A Riverside Romance Unveiled
Lyrics
Vat of acid
The mention of a vat of acid, suggesting a violent and corrosive act.
Dissolved their skin and bones
Describing the dissolution of skin and bones, indicating a gruesome and destructive event.
Call it conspiracy
Suggesting a conspiracy, possibly questioning official narratives or hidden truths.
But the public chose it long ago
Implying that the public has accepted or endorsed the alleged conspiracy.
Headlined another tragic loss
Referring to a tragic event getting attention in the media.
Surface level sympathy, to selfishly get involved
Criticizing superficial sympathy, accusing people of getting involved for selfish reasons.
For the people, a statement of evil
Characterizing a statement as evil, possibly referring to official responses.
Covered in lies
Highlighting deception and falsehoods in the narrative.
And now the rivers run red
Symbolizing a significant loss, with red rivers possibly representing bloodshed.
When there's a price for your head
Suggesting a threat to one's life with a price on their head.
The seventh sons finally caught on
Referring to awareness or realization coming too late.
Premonitions leading to death
Indicating forewarnings leading to fatal outcomes.
Where I'm involved
The speaker's personal involvement in the unfolding events.
Hunted down, with evidence found
Describing being pursued and evidence being discovered.
I've come to an end
Suggesting the end of the speaker's involvement or existence.
So they'll call me a monster
Anticipating societal condemnation of the speaker as a monster.
Without taking a look in the mirror
Criticizing society for not introspecting or self-reflecting.
I'll go down as a martyr
Expressing a willingness to be remembered as a martyr for a cause.
For the world to see it clearer
Highlighting the speaker's desire for the world to understand a clearer truth.
So they will call me a monster
Repeating the theme of being labeled a monster without self-reflection.
Without taking a look in the mirror
Reiterating the speaker's expectation of societal misjudgment.
I'll go down as a martyr
Expressing the speaker's preparedness to be a martyr for clarity.
For the world to see it clearer
Emphasizing the speaker's wish for a clearer understanding by the world.
Sentenced to eternity
Describing a severe punishment lasting for eternity.
For these crimes I've done
Acknowledging guilt for committed crimes.
Without the death penalty
Commenting on the absence of the death penalty, suggesting an alternative form of suffering.
A new suffering has begun
Indicating the commencement of a new form of punishment or suffering.
This instrument of death
Referring to an instrument of death, possibly a metaphor for a guilty conscience.
Forced into my memories
Describing the forced recall of memories, particularly those of final breaths.
Replays their final breath's
Suggesting a haunting repetition of memories related to death.
And now the rivers run red
Reiterating the imagery of red rivers, symbolizing ongoing consequences.
Within these walls I'm never dead
Expressing a sense of perpetual existence within confining walls.
And now the rivers run red
Repeating the theme of red rivers and perpetual existence.
Within these walls I'm never dead
Reiterating the notion of continued existence within certain boundaries.
I'm never dead
Emphasizing an enduring state of being alive.
I'm never dead
Reiterating the idea of perpetual existence despite external circumstances.
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