This Syrup to Exchange
Syrup of Transformation: Exploring Life's Weighty Changes
Lyrics
It's a early rise
Refers to an early start or awakening.
His teeth are furred
Describes teeth covered in fur, possibly indicating a gritty or unkempt state.
And cleanse with hands to hunt and hold
Suggests using hands for purification, hunting, and securing things.
The sun divides
Indicates a division caused by the sun, possibly symbolizing a new day.
Imagined leaves
Refers to leaves that exist in the imagination rather than reality.
A shelter while I sleep
Describes seeking refuge or protection during sleep.
There are many years
Alludes to the passage of many years.
To cloud my mind
Refers to the clouding of the mind with time.
But no burden
Denies the existence of a burden despite the passage of years.
It's heavy like a tipping load
Compares a heavy burden to a tipping load, suggesting its weight and precariousness.
Early day
Refers to the early part of the day.
On a bloodied patch
Describes a patch stained with blood, indicating a violent or troubled area.
Only noise and brick surround
Portrays a surrounding environment of noise and brick structures.
Tradition sinks
Suggests the sinking of tradition into the soil, possibly hinting at a loss of cultural roots.
In the soil here
Describes the soil swallowing a rock, symbolizing disappearance or assimilation.
As a rock is swallowed in the mud
Refers to the polluted skin of the earth, possibly indicating environmental degradation.
The polluted skin
Describes the earth as brittle, implying fragility.
Of my brittle earth
Indicates that the polluted earth somehow prevents bleeding.
It keeps the bleeding at bay
Describes a sweet and thick syrup used for exchange, possibly symbolizing a coping mechanism or escape.
This syrup sweet and thick to exchange me
Suggests a rearrangement of the speaker's spirit due to the syrup.
My spirit has rearranged
Describes the spirit as crippled, dampened, and lame, indicating a negative transformation.
Crippled, dampened, lame
Expresses acceptance of the ongoing process.
As it goes
Describes the syrup filling the speaker's eyes, possibly blinding them metaphorically.
The syrup fills my eyes
Indicates the fading of faces to black, suggesting a loss of perception or connection.
The days faces fade to black
Expresses a lack of feeling.
And I don't feel
Describes an inability to fight for one's home.
And I can't fight
Repeats the sense of inability and detachment from home.
For my home anymore
Expresses a return to an open land.
Anymore
Refers to a time when blood served as a protective shield.
And I return to an open land
Repeats the description of the syrup as sweet and thick, emphasizing the exchange.
Where bloods blanket shielded me
Reiterates the rearrangement of the spirit due to the syrup.
This syrup sweet and thick to exchange me
Reiterates the negative transformation of the spirit.
My spirit has rearranged
Repeats the acceptance of the ongoing process.
Crippled, dampened, lame
Reiterates the description of the spirit as crippled, dampened, and lame.
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