TheFourthHorseman
In The Twilight World
Format C: said:How can you be sure that Lethe is a drinking song?
I have never thought about it in that way.
Perhaps he just want to drink of the river, not drink of the bottle!
You see my point..hehe
"In currents of cobalt
You storm through my heart
To sever, to puncture
The memories that burn
Let sweep through the arteries
In sharp stabs of pain
Your talonlike fingers to kill me again"
Just sounds too much like an alcoholic telling us how the alcohol is killing him though he doesn't want to drink. Plus the lyrics don't have anything to do with love directly so I don't see it as a lovesong. Now that I noticed,the lines "To sever,to puncture the memories that burn" do sound like he wants to forget too. I just think that all the symbolism is reflected to drinking...alcohol being his lethe.
Btw I agree about Format C:For Cortex being about,as Siren said,protecting someone from experiencing bad thing. Just don't see it directly as a love song. He/she could just as well be protecting a friend.