The Skull
Embracing Mortality: The Haunted's Poetic Journey Through Defeat
Lyrics
Easy now
Cautionary advice to take it easy.
Don't give yourself away
Warns against revealing too much about oneself.
Don't let them know you're breaking
Hide any signs of vulnerability or weakness.
These are wolves and they carry no sympathies
Describes others as predatory and lacking empathy.
Don't look down
Discourages looking down, likely metaphorical for feeling low.
These are but minor details
Emphasizes that certain details are trivial.
Hopefully they'll keep you alive
Hopeful that minor details will help in survival.
Don't let them see you're breaking
Reiteration to conceal one's vulnerabilities.
Achieve to justify
Encouragement to find reasons and justifications for actions.
Pearls before swine
Metaphor suggesting valuable things given to those who don't appreciate them.
No more hesitation
Call to act without hesitation.
No more slipping away
Resolve to stop escaping or avoiding challenges.
No more waiting for a loving grace
Rejecting the expectation of receiving mercy or divine intervention.
You will crawl
Anticipation of a difficult journey or struggle.
Let's not get personal
Advises against taking things personally.
You will serve an example to others
Being an example for others, possibly through hardship.
A skull at the gates to mark who's the king
Symbolic reference to a skull marking leadership or authority.
We learn from falling down
Learning and growth from failures and setbacks.
A willingness grows from defeat
Developing willingness and strength through defeat.
To mock the ordinary punk
Mocking those who conform to the ordinary.
And see if you still got it in you
Testing oneself to see if resilience persists.
Did you cry? I wept like a child
Reflecting on emotional vulnerability and acceptance of mortality.
In final acceptance to my own mortality
Acceptance of one's own mortality as a final stage.
Fuck your pride, it will be your downfall
Critique of excessive pride as a potential downfall.
Easy now
Repetition of the cautionary advice to take it easy.
Go lightly these are tricky times
Encouragement to navigate cautiously through challenging times.
We don't need much fuel to feed the fire
Minimization of external factors needed to fuel conflicts.
No more hesitation
Reiteration of the call to act without hesitation.
No more slipping away
Reaffirmation of the decision to stop avoiding challenges.
No more waiting for a loving grace
Continued rejection of expecting divine intervention.
Easy now
Repetition of the cautionary advice to take it easy.
Go lightly these are tricky times
Renewed encouragement to navigate cautiously through tricky times.
We don't need much fuel to feed the fire
Emphasis on not needing much to escalate conflicts.
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