I'm pretty sure it's about pussying out of suicide, or at least the start is: "The sight of the drop got me off the roof."
It could be about trying to escape something like - as quite a lot of AWS songs ultimately relate to - a fucked up relationship (or the burden of life in general) through suicide: "To finally admit... got another one of their own."
I also get the feeling the proganist's mind is telling the story, referring to himself (the mind) as King and his body is the city: "Put me in the back of an ambulance cause my city dies tonight."
The story itself seems like the mind's in a fucked up state and has done something stupid: "The knife, or the rope, or the lemon, this brain and I." in the name of "art". Then you sort of see as the song progresses him lying to his body ("I lie to myself, it's my right to do.") that what he did was fine, guilt slowly overtaking him until he realises what he's done to himself ("To wade through the virus of your lies.") ultimately ending up in the back of an ambulance slowly letting go of life ("the guilt is weighing down by arms" - life leaving his body). The story, if interpreted that was, is fairly similar to MacBeth in that respect - and the king references and guilt driving him mad fit pretty well, too.
As for what it means? I've no idea. I guess it's sort of showing one choice leads to a set of consequences you can't go back from - which fits in 100% with what Ruiner as an album was all about. Maybe a sort of blunt "this is what we're all about" track at the start to tell you?
Well, I'm really not sure.
P.S. The lemon is a reference to autoerotic asphyxiation for anyone puzzled on that. That's straight from the Q&A thread on the bands message board.
No, but it's got a lot of references.
I'm pretty sure it's about pussying out of suicide, or at least the start is: "The sight of the drop got me off the roof."
It could be about trying to escape something like - as quite a lot of AWS songs ultimately relate to - a fucked up relationship (or the burden of life in general) through suicide: "To finally admit... got another one of their own."
I also get the feeling the proganist's mind is telling the story, referring to himself (the mind) as King and his body is the city: "Put me in the back of an ambulance cause my city dies tonight."
The story itself seems like the mind's in a fucked up state and has done something stupid: "The knife, or the rope, or the lemon, this brain and I." in the name of "art". Then you sort of see as the song progresses him lying to his body ("I lie to myself, it's my right to do.") that what he did was fine, guilt slowly overtaking him until he realises what he's done to himself ("To wade through the virus of your lies.") ultimately ending up in the back of an ambulance slowly letting go of life ("the guilt is weighing down by arms" - life leaving his body). The story, if interpreted that was, is fairly similar to MacBeth in that respect - and the king references and guilt driving him mad fit pretty well, too.
As for what it means? I've no idea. I guess it's sort of showing one choice leads to a set of consequences you can't go back from - which fits in 100% with what Ruiner as an album was all about. Maybe a sort of blunt "this is what we're all about" track at the start to tell you?
Well, I'm really not sure.
P.S. The lemon is a reference to autoerotic asphyxiation for anyone puzzled on that. That's straight from the Q&A thread on the bands message board.