The Carpet Crawlers Lyrics Meaning

And the themes this particular part centers on are ones of conformity false hope and drudgery.

The carpet crawlers lyrics meaning.

They brought me back to life i had tubes down my neck and could talk so i wrote down carpet crawlers because all i heard when i was dead was you have to get in to get out. The lyrics of carpet crawlers sound a lot like sperm reaching an egg but it can be summed up as you ve got to get in to get out. And that is the carpet crawlers in a nutshell. Verse 1 there is lambswool under my naked feet.

1 18 18 i died after 4 min. Carpet crawlers as well as most of the lamb album is about escaping the new world rael finds himself in. Lewis s metaphor for finding religion and true faith was that any of the rooms is better than remaining in the hall and here the implication seems to be that this corridor is therefore a holding pattern. The wool is soft and warm gives off some kind of heat.

So all things considered this track reads like a criticism of those who blindly follow societal ideologies. The colorful and artistic language used throughout relays a story which is but a segment of a much larger narrative. There is lambswool under my naked feet. But the crawlers are moving in time to a heavy wooden door a clear church reference.

It s when you die and come back to life you have to get in to get out. The fleas cling to the golden fleece hoping they ll find peace. The wool is soft and warm. It s all part of the story of rael.

The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor for my second sight of people they ve more lifeblood than before they re moving in time to a heavy wooden door where the needle s eye is winking closing on the poor. Into flame to be destroyed. A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed.