HEIR APPARENT:
Slow days
Slow words
Slow lies
Slow ends
So many years to clean the slate
Endless despair within its wake
His touch soiling what used to be clean
His gaze burning on the edge of our dreams no more
Slow pain
Slow deaths
And again he rides in, it's September and he covets the gullible
Skeletal wish
Hunter
A thousand lies, cast from the throne of secrecy
Hear him spewing forth meaning to miserable lies
See the twisted hand of doubt seal the affair
The insect trust
Believer
Your body a vehicle to house his disease
Pearls before swine they are nothing but blind
Submit to nothing and swallow my spit of scorn
Invisible king
Dying
Procession of woe, struck down by sorrow
A burden so great weighs heavy on old and withered beliefs
The swift solution crumbles beneath the mock notes of a masterpiece
Death in his eyes
Waiting
Spiralling judgement, provoked in the rains
This futile test drowned in the levee of deception
In the year of his sovereign
Rid us of your judgement
Heir apparent
_______________________
I hypothesize that this song is about, or at least widely influenced, by United States President George W. Bush. In b4
& "ur overanalyzing"
An Heir Apparent is an assumed successor to the throne by bloodline. Kings and princes and such. Bush's father, George H. W. Bush preceded him (with Bill Clinton in between) - the next time after Clinton that the republicans had a strong, popular candidate was during Bush Jr.'s campaign - he was the heir apparent to the office.
"So many years to clean the slate" may refer to Bush's 8 years of opportunity to right his wrongs - or, from his perspective, wipe clean the slate of his family's mistakes (he believed that Bush Sr. should have invaded Iraq).
Just a note: well over half of the song is an abstraction, like most of Opeth's stuff. I'm saying that it might be referencing Dubya.
Next:
"And again he rides in, it's September and he covets the gullible"
September 11th, 2001. Bush rides in and stands on the rubble and sells a war against terror to the citizens, coveting the gullible who later approve of the war in Iraq, which leads to the deaths of hundreds of thousands civilians and millions displaced, and over 4,000 US troops (as of late). A "skeletal" wish.
As for the "slow pain, slow deaths" bit, it reminds me of the slow suicide of humans at large with our treatment of the environment and all that.
"Spiralling judgement, provoked in the rains/This futile test drowned in the levee of deception"
Another widely recognized disaster: the Hurricane Katrina crisis in Louisiana, when the levees broke. Note the imagery of drowning and rain.
Last verse: his term is ending, rid us of him, the heir apparent.
So maybe it's a stretch, but I completely see it there. Thoughts?
Slow days
Slow words
Slow lies
Slow ends
So many years to clean the slate
Endless despair within its wake
His touch soiling what used to be clean
His gaze burning on the edge of our dreams no more
Slow pain
Slow deaths
And again he rides in, it's September and he covets the gullible
Skeletal wish
Hunter
A thousand lies, cast from the throne of secrecy
Hear him spewing forth meaning to miserable lies
See the twisted hand of doubt seal the affair
The insect trust
Believer
Your body a vehicle to house his disease
Pearls before swine they are nothing but blind
Submit to nothing and swallow my spit of scorn
Invisible king
Dying
Procession of woe, struck down by sorrow
A burden so great weighs heavy on old and withered beliefs
The swift solution crumbles beneath the mock notes of a masterpiece
Death in his eyes
Waiting
Spiralling judgement, provoked in the rains
This futile test drowned in the levee of deception
In the year of his sovereign
Rid us of your judgement
Heir apparent
_______________________
I hypothesize that this song is about, or at least widely influenced, by United States President George W. Bush. In b4
& "ur overanalyzing"An Heir Apparent is an assumed successor to the throne by bloodline. Kings and princes and such. Bush's father, George H. W. Bush preceded him (with Bill Clinton in between) - the next time after Clinton that the republicans had a strong, popular candidate was during Bush Jr.'s campaign - he was the heir apparent to the office.
"So many years to clean the slate" may refer to Bush's 8 years of opportunity to right his wrongs - or, from his perspective, wipe clean the slate of his family's mistakes (he believed that Bush Sr. should have invaded Iraq).
Just a note: well over half of the song is an abstraction, like most of Opeth's stuff. I'm saying that it might be referencing Dubya.
Next:
"And again he rides in, it's September and he covets the gullible"
September 11th, 2001. Bush rides in and stands on the rubble and sells a war against terror to the citizens, coveting the gullible who later approve of the war in Iraq, which leads to the deaths of hundreds of thousands civilians and millions displaced, and over 4,000 US troops (as of late). A "skeletal" wish.
As for the "slow pain, slow deaths" bit, it reminds me of the slow suicide of humans at large with our treatment of the environment and all that.
"Spiralling judgement, provoked in the rains/This futile test drowned in the levee of deception"
Another widely recognized disaster: the Hurricane Katrina crisis in Louisiana, when the levees broke. Note the imagery of drowning and rain.
Last verse: his term is ending, rid us of him, the heir apparent.
So maybe it's a stretch, but I completely see it there. Thoughts?
