Dragon
Veiled Realities and Roaring Dragons: Mount Eerie's Ethereal Journey
Lyrics
3. DRAGON
Introduction: Title of the song - "Dragon"
There is a veil between me
Feeling separated or distanced from something significant or vast
and the bottomless sky.
Sense of separation between the speaker and an immense, limitless space
Cloud or a sheet billowing,
Comparison of something expansive and moving, possibly a cloud, to the boundary of the speaker's thoughts
the edge of my mind.
The limit or boundary of the speaker's consciousness
Standing on the street
Physical location: the speaker stands in the rain on a street
in the rain,
Environmental condition - raining
(unnamed and unknown)
Feeling unidentified and unrecognized
only sound,
Perception limited to only auditory sensations, no other assumptions made
assuming nothing.
Approaching the situation with a blank state of mind
Seeing the echoing shape
Observation of a suggestive form or figure
of the mammoth that tore
Recalling a massive creature that moved forcefully through the area
through the brush here
Imagining the path or destruction left behind by the mammoth
(A tractor idling
A contrasting present-day scene: a tractor idling in the fog, not directly visible
two blocks away
The distance of the tractor - two blocks away
in the fog, unseen.)
Its presence is obscured by the fog
and the dragon that roars now.
Awareness of a present danger or ominous presence symbolized by a roaring dragon
For all I know,
Uncertain about the surroundings, feeling lost in changing conditions
lost in the weather.
Metaphorically, petals blowing suggests a sense of transience and change
Petals blow. Is this a river?
Uncertainty about the nature of the surroundings - questioning if it's a river
In a palace of water
Feeling displaced or unfamiliar in a place that should be comforting or known
nothing is familiar
Disorientation in surroundings, causing a constant feeling of instability
and the ground always shakes.
Metaphorically diving into a state of confusion or ambiguity
I dive into
Symbolic descent into a place associated with uncertainty or discomfort
a pool of uncertainty.
Metaphor for exploring unknown or ambiguous aspects of humanity
Going into the basement again,
Returning to a lower or hidden level, possibly metaphorical
I reach down
Reaching for something below the surface, seeking understanding or meaning
beneath the human.
Delving beneath the surface of human existence or understanding
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