Today in song interpretation

[brin_bellway]

[cw: apocalypse]


The music's not really my style, but I read the lyrics and--

--okay, look, I admit I don't know anything about Polish mythology, I know it's 2022 and we all have apocalypse on the mind, but this poem sure does sound like it's about civilisational collapse and especially (though perhaps not exclusively) nuclear war.

Take the chorus, for example:

Fortified by age-old condolences
Drawings of the northern lights
God, give us clearer skies
Open-eyed, entangled in promises
Furthering the questions asked
Hands tied behind our backs
Bared fangs behind a mask

Comments

[contrarianarchon]

There is a part of me which finds the idea of something in a (parses to me as) folkish style, sung by literally nobody, fascinating.

(And yeah it def does. Looking at the comments, it might be a smaller end of the world than that (just the death of specifically the polish civilization at the hands of the Germany and Russia, but like, the vibe is absolutely there.)

On the other hand it's the kind of music which is a grab-bag of imagery and symbolism intended to convey a vibe over a specific meaning. That's the best music, but it does make the idea of a specific true meaning a little bit absurd.