Simple Town
Echoes of Silence: Unraveling the Depths of a Simple Town's Secrets
Lyrics
Its a simple town; with a lonely sound
Describes the town as simple but with a sense of loneliness.
There's demons in the trees
Suggests a presence of inner struggles or challenges represented by demons in nature.
Come and rescue me
Expresses a plea for help or rescue from the difficulties.
Its a simple town; where the face becomes a veil
Highlights the town where appearances hide true emotions.
Where the eyes become a jail;
Implies that the eyes serve as a prison, restricting freedom of thought.
For the settlers minds to pale
Suggests a sense of oppression on the settlers' minds, leading to pale thoughts.
Its just a simple town
Reiterates the simplicity of the town.
Where the secrets drown
Describes a town where secrets are buried or suppressed.
Before they get around
Indicates the urgency to hide secrets before they become known.
But tonight they have been found
Suggests a revelation of secrets on this particular night.
With the words come shatter out your mouth
Refers to the impact of spoken words, possibly destructive.
You made a thundercloud come and rain on me
Describes the emotional effect of words, comparing them to a thundercloud that brings rain.
Under a simple sky in a simple town
Sets the scene under a simple sky in the described simple town.
You made a knife of sound, cut the air for me
Describes the cutting impact of words, creating a metaphorical knife of sound.
Cut the secrets free
Implies the release of hidden truths or secrets.
Its a simple town, just a simple town
Reaffirms the simplicity of the town.
But that simple choked
Suggests that simplicity has a choking effect on life.
The life right out of me
Expresses the suffocating impact of simplicity on the speaker.
Cause simple things
Reflects on the deceptive nature of simple things, which are not as straightforward as they appear.
Aren't so simple anymore
Comments on the ease of ignoring death when it's presented abstractly.
Death is easy to ignore
Highlights the theme that death is easier to overlook when distant.
When its numbers on a screen
Addresses the detachment people feel when confronted with statistics on a screen.
And that simple town
Reiterates the simplicity of the town and its preference for uncomplicated conflicts.
It likes a simple war; chooses red or blue
Describes the town's inclination towards straightforward choices like red or blue in a war.
The rest can be ignored
Suggests that certain issues are intentionally overlooked or dismissed.
While the secrets wait; on tortured lips
Touches on the theme of suppressed secrets lingering on people's lips.
Till they're moved to sing; with the passion of a kiss
Describes the eventual release of secrets with the intensity of a kiss.
And there's the words...
Leaves the narrative open-ended, referring to the impact of spoken words.
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