If you don't take the lyrics that literally and look at the EP as a whole, this could be about a child growing up, becoming an adult (a soldier) and losing the innocence.
For example Wasteland:
"Now I remember the joy and the taste of candy cane
The innocence of youth and the sound of major scales."
"Deep in the ocean, dead and cast away
Where innocence is burned in flames
A million mile from home, I'm walking ahead
I'm frozen to the bones, I am..."
Wasteland:
"Now I remember the joy and the meaning of the fate
The color of the truth and the sound of sunny days."
There're a lot of connections between these two songs, also some with Brooklyn and Baltimore's Fireflies . Like the innocence of childhood, 'fate', and shame.
"A soldier on my own, I don't know the way
I'm riding up the heights of shame"
Baltimore's Fireflies:
"What is the price, am I supposed to pay?
For all the things I try to hide?"
"What are the words that I'm supposed to say?
If someone knew about this lie?"
The 1st song is Iron and the last Wasteland. He starts out on his own and loses innocence (Iron), then he longs back to childhood (Brooklyn), does shameful things he regrets (Baltimore's Fireflies) and eventually finds his loved one who makes him remember the good old times (Wasteland).
People usually forget to look at an album (or EP as this one) as a whole, they focus too much one the individual songs.
If you don't take the lyrics that literally and look at the EP as a whole, this could be about a child growing up, becoming an adult (a soldier) and losing the innocence.
For example Wasteland: "Now I remember the joy and the taste of candy cane The innocence of youth and the sound of major scales."
"Deep in the ocean, dead and cast away Where innocence is burned in flames A million mile from home, I'm walking ahead I'm frozen to the bones, I am..."
Wasteland: "Now I remember the joy and the meaning of the fate The color of the truth and the sound of sunny days."
There're a lot of connections between these two songs, also some with Brooklyn and Baltimore's Fireflies . Like the innocence of childhood, 'fate', and shame.
"A soldier on my own, I don't know the way I'm riding up the heights of shame"
Baltimore's Fireflies: "What is the price, am I supposed to pay? For all the things I try to hide?"
"What are the words that I'm supposed to say? If someone knew about this lie?"
The 1st song is Iron and the last Wasteland. He starts out on his own and loses innocence (Iron), then he longs back to childhood (Brooklyn), does shameful things he regrets (Baltimore's Fireflies) and eventually finds his loved one who makes him remember the good old times (Wasteland).
People usually forget to look at an album (or EP as this one) as a whole, they focus too much one the individual songs.