This song is definitely an allusion to the myth of Oorpheus and Eurydice. For those that don't know, basically Orpheus was a great musician (he was the son of the muse Calliope) who's playing could bring about any emotion. When his wife (Eurydice) was bitten by a snake and died he crossed to the underworld and pleaded to Haedes that he might have his wife back. After playing such a beautiful song on his lyre, Hades agreed to this on the condition that Orpheus COULD NOT turn around and look at his wife until they were both in the sunlight and out of the underworld, otherwise she would disappear forever. Anyways, he looks back and Eurydice disappears forever.
" I press my shoulder to this wall between us. I know you are behind me but I press my shoulder to this wall, determined not to turn around."
definite reference to this story.
I think J.K. Samson has modelled himself a modern day Orpheus and Eurydice. A man who's love died, and he'd do anything to get her back. he's haunted by memories of this woman who he loved.
Also- in regards to the "dying with you" line, after Orpheus lost Eurydice for the second time he wandered into the dance of the followers of Dionysus (drunk, half crazed and possibly drugged women), who ripped him apart.
His head floated across the ocean to Lesbos where it became an Oracle.
I agree with that he references Oroheus and Eurydice, but i also think he references another Greek myth about the man who builds the most beautiful women out of stone, and then falls in love with her, the gods make her real for him, but then I think she breaks and he doesn't want any other women.
I agree with that he references Oroheus and Eurydice, but i also think he references another Greek myth about the man who builds the most beautiful women out of stone, and then falls in love with her, the gods make her real for him, but then I think she breaks and he doesn't want any other women.
"...still that statue that I molded in my mind to kiss, so beautiful you'll never move again."
"...still that statue that I molded in my mind to kiss, so beautiful you'll never move again."
I'm confident that there are more myth references, that I don't understand, in this song.
I'm confident that there are more myth references, that I don't understand, in this song.
This song is definitely an allusion to the myth of Oorpheus and Eurydice. For those that don't know, basically Orpheus was a great musician (he was the son of the muse Calliope) who's playing could bring about any emotion. When his wife (Eurydice) was bitten by a snake and died he crossed to the underworld and pleaded to Haedes that he might have his wife back. After playing such a beautiful song on his lyre, Hades agreed to this on the condition that Orpheus COULD NOT turn around and look at his wife until they were both in the sunlight and out of the underworld, otherwise she would disappear forever. Anyways, he looks back and Eurydice disappears forever.
" I press my shoulder to this wall between us. I know you are behind me but I press my shoulder to this wall, determined not to turn around." definite reference to this story.
I think J.K. Samson has modelled himself a modern day Orpheus and Eurydice. A man who's love died, and he'd do anything to get her back. he's haunted by memories of this woman who he loved.
Also- in regards to the "dying with you" line, after Orpheus lost Eurydice for the second time he wandered into the dance of the followers of Dionysus (drunk, half crazed and possibly drugged women), who ripped him apart. His head floated across the ocean to Lesbos where it became an Oracle.
I agree with that he references Oroheus and Eurydice, but i also think he references another Greek myth about the man who builds the most beautiful women out of stone, and then falls in love with her, the gods make her real for him, but then I think she breaks and he doesn't want any other women.
I agree with that he references Oroheus and Eurydice, but i also think he references another Greek myth about the man who builds the most beautiful women out of stone, and then falls in love with her, the gods make her real for him, but then I think she breaks and he doesn't want any other women.
"...still that statue that I molded in my mind to kiss, so beautiful you'll never move again."
"...still that statue that I molded in my mind to kiss, so beautiful you'll never move again."
I'm confident that there are more myth references, that I don't understand, in this song.
I'm confident that there are more myth references, that I don't understand, in this song.