A Perfect Circle: The Noose Meaning
The Noose Lyrics
Overcome them, completely silent now
With heaven's help
You cast your demons out
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're...
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Im going to agree with the person way above me. I believe this song is about a murderer on death row, the one I was specifically thinking of was a woman who brutally axe murdered some people, and her last words were that god had forgiven her, and that's all fine and dandy but god isn't the one she hurt, how is she gonna "make amends" with the dead? and that's it.
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"So glad to see you well
Overcome and completely silent now
With heaven's help
You cast your demons out"
So glad you're well and you got saved
"And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
To the dead"
Not to pull you off your self righteous pedestal, but you are just saved. What are you going to do for Jesus?
"Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's
Atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn
Before us all
So glad to see you well"
I'm glad you got saved
With your halo slippin' down
Turning back away from Jesus -
Why is everyone with the murder and drug interpretations?
Obviously the song is about someone who "found God", someone who was plagued with troubles that caused them to hurt people a lot before they "washed their hands of it." But there are some things you can't take back, and just getting rid of the behavior doesn't fix what you did, it doesn't make it right.
The issue is not that the people died by someone's fault NECESSARILY, though it's possible there's no direct evidence of that in the song. The people who died could have just died before the person was supposedly "saved." The person who fixed themselves might have just taken too long to make it up to the people who deserved it the most. This revelation made by Maynard in the song is what chokes them, unable to be prideful in their "halo", which chokes them symbolically for their failure to live up to its angelic image. -
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Someone, say who killed someone (4 children in a microwave, etc)or a druggy Who goes through psychiatric help/ rehab. They feel better and clean, but (and not to destroy their new found peace with themself) how will they make ammends to the people they injured with their crimes?
They think about them like it wasn't their fault, their doing. And they come back into society (He sarcastically states, I'm glad to see YOU well)
This doesn't even need to be about that. Just humans in general. We forgive ourselves for the harm we cause for others merely to make it easier for our selves, but we do nothing to make peace with the people we hurt in the first place. -
This is what I love about music. This song means something completely different to me than what you all are saying, and everyone is right. Music means whatever it means to you. Anyway, I'll just pick out a few lines in particular, as most of it is self-explanatory I think.
When I heard the lyrics for the first time I took it as a critique of Christianity.
So glad to see you well. (in it's current, "healthier" form)
Cast your demons out. (all the bloodletting and violence in it's past)
How you're planning to go about making your amends to the dead. (All of the countless people murdered in the name of Christianity)
Recall the deeds as if they're all someone else's atrocious stories. (How modern Christians talk so easily and thoughtlessly about The Crusades, Witchhunts, etc.)
Anyway, that's how I've always interpreted this song, probably due to my own atheism. -
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The noose has been one of my favorite songs since the first time I heard it because it of course sounds incredible but also because of the duality of the lyrics. While I don't doubt that the song is about someone who recovered, I think that it also fits someone, like a military leader, who has made decisions that got people killed, and is being judged at the time of his death.
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This song is about those people who have gone through a recovery program and are now holding themselves up on a pedastal as if they were never low. They give themselves a halo but it isn't very deserved. They seem to forget how horrible they were and how many people they hurt.
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