ASCENDANCY SONG INTERPRETATIONS (BY MATTHEW K. HEAFY)
1. Rain. Rain is a very personal track about the way I felt about life during a period where I spent much of my time alone - agonizing in anxiety and boredom, failed expectations and treachery from so many I confided in. It seemed like all the while that I was going through this, the whole world kept moving along, happy and content with itself. The last lines of the song are to the world's happiness personified- and all I wanted to do was to kill that happiness, choke out it's every last breath.
2. Pull Harder on the Strings of your Martyr. Pull Harder is a look at a villainous tyrant; one who can simply kill and destroy on will, push his faith upon all, be hated by all other powers around - and still be loved by many that he rules.
3. Drowned and Torn Asunder. Drowned can be applied to any macro or microcosm/ era or life. Speaking of micro- this can be about a child living entangled in their parents tyrannical ways; in macro terms- about a people living in a mind-controlled dictatorship. Either way this is an anthem to the rebellion of self-empowerment and breaking free.
4. Ascendancy. I think the loss of innocence is a time when you realize how truly fucked up the world around you is. This album, as a whole, deals lyrically with many realizations based on this theme. Ascendancy, to me, means the overcoming of life's obstacles; to rise above everything that once held me down- and to realize and overcome the corruption of the world around me.
5. Like Light to the Flies. This song is about people's attraction to all forms of tragedy. It seems like everywhere you turn to today (e.g., television, newspaper, magazine, movies, etc.) it's all about murder, violence, war, cruelty- and it's because this is what sells; people are totally captivated by subjects in this vein. We are the flies.
6. A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation. It's a sad and sickening thought that some people live in fear of their own families. Whether spousal abuse, child abuse, neglect or sexual abuse- it's all tragic on a life threatening scale. Monsters will create monsters through their own actions. This song reflects the outright anger that I have for these people who think they can harm another in their own family.
7. Suffocating Sight. Instability, insecurity, and stress wrote this song. Suffocating is a look into my personal issues and peculiarities that I go though and recognize. The 'shore' and 'shipwrecked' lines were written at a time I was out by the ocean; 'shore' represents people, 'novel' represents songs and lyrics that I will write about my 'shipwrecked' (disturbed) self.
8. Dying in Your Arms. Being with someone can be like an addiction. Gradually, you can't stand to be without them, everything you once enjoyed- you no longer care about, you become weak and dependent. Like a heroin addiction - you think you can't live without it, but you're gradually dying inside and out. Break free.
9. Departure. Suicide is a thought that grazes the minds of many; and in any case, it isn't worth it. Departure? is about every thought and emotion that myself and many have gone through. This song shows that you're not alone and that others have gone through the same and have overcome.
10. Declaration. It's time to take action against those who are poisoning this world. The powers that be are telling us how to live our lives, trying to force feed us their fucked up morals. The truth is that "all men are created equal" "no matter race or creed or gender" and it is in the responsibility of the youth to take a stand against the hate that the dictators of this country are creating. Our country is teaching hate against other races thanks to a redneck retaliation agenda, our country is preaching hate against love between people because of their sex, our country is segregating itself in it's methods and it is time to break free. "Burn the scriptures, bury the governing, free yourself, break the structures, declare freedom."
11. Washing Away Me in the Tides. A song about the outrage and unbridled anger I felt about someone. Writing this song was my release so that I could express myself in musical retaliation, not in a physical disaster.
12. The Deceived. The idea of perfection and utopia brought about by a unified religion or any other system of life is a ludicrous impossibility. It is also a scary thought that people live their lives dependent entirely on upon the principles of a blind faith. It is in our right to break free of helpless conformity.
13. Blinding Tears will Break the Skies. There are many who fight for the freedoms that we have today, and for each there is an opposing negativity- albeit person or personal obstacle. As long as we each stay true to what we are, and fight for what we are- we will never lose.

^Metallica and Trivium are the only two bands I've ever done that with.

I saw this in the Kerrang! magazine. But the best thing is to get the lyrics from the web ans read through it while listening to the album, it helps to understand it much better this way.

^Cool!

QUOTE(KrazyLegs @ Jun 27 2007, 04:41 AM) [snapback]383898[/snapback]I think its up to the listener to interperet the lyrics and find thier own meanings. A lot of his interperetations are cool, though. I respect them. But there are a couple of songs that i got a different meaning out of, its mostly just little details though.
Yeah that's true, and most of it becomes clear when you look at the lyrics,
unless if it's metaphoric of course.

I think its up to the listener to interperet the lyrics and find thier own meanings. A lot of his interperetations are cool, though. I respect them. But there are a couple of songs that i got a different meaning out of, its mostly just little details though.

It's cool to see his way of thinking behind the songs

random question what deos the k stand for in matthew k heafy

QUOTE(blindskater @ May 13 2007, 06:39 PM) [snapback]377059[/snapback]random question what deos the k stand for in matthew k heafy
M for Matthew
K for Kiichi
H for Heafy

ohh thats his middle name kiichi thanks

I think I still like gunshot's meaning the best.