Faith No More: Ashes to Ashes Meaning
Song Released: 1997
Ashes to Ashes Lyrics
It's on my head
I'll point the finger at me
It's on my head
Give it all to you, then I'll be closer
Smiling with the mouth of the ocean
And I'll wave to you with the arms of the mountain
I'll see you
I will...
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Someone loved could not be saved. The narrator, still being alive, is trying to reconcile the fact that there was nothing he could do to ease the anger and pain (the shouting). The lost person could not let him get close enough to support them, despite the love felt, and willingness to carry them that was there. In the end, the only lifting up of the person the narrator could do was in lifting their lifeless body from the flood. Now the anger for that helplessness and loss,and pain of not being able to save them is his alone. In time,still bereft and wanting to be closer requires him to forgive them for leaving. And so, accepting the guilt and blame for it is his way of still being there for them, still in relationship to them, and looking to the day that he himself joins them in that larger place beyond our physical being. Smiling with the mouth of the ocean, waving with the arms of the mountains - the universe, the all.
It reminds me too of Chris Cornell's Audioslave song,"The Highway".
Not ironically, I found my son dead from overdose. I did not pick him up. But he had played the Audioslave CD about 2 weeks before his death. And we discussed death, what we believed becomes of us afterwards. This, and The Highway, summed it up for both of us. We played it at his funeral.
And Mike Patton was pretty much his idol. -
What I got was more like drugs he gave some one and that person over dosed and died and he blames himself. Just a thought.
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This song is about a psychopath, a murder, a suicide and some connection with the victim after death through some kind of reincarnation. "I want them to know, it's me
It's on my head
I'll point the finger at me
It's on my head" a person wants to do something and make sure that people know he did it. "Give it all to you, then I'll be closer
Smiling with the mouth of the ocean
And I'll wave to you with the arms of the mountain
I'll see you" he gives another person death, and he kills himself after, that's how he'll get closer. Then he's dead body, he's ashes return to the ground, the earth, and he becomes the earth. After death, he smiles trough the shape of the shore, and he salutes with the arms of the earth, wich are the mountains. "I will let you shout no more
It's on my head (It's on my head)
I'll pick you up from the floor
It's on my head (It's on my head)
I'll let you even the score
It's on my head (It's on my head)" he will kill the other person so he don't make more sound. He will pick the body and leave it somewhere. He will let him even the score through killing himself. "Give the same to me then I'll be closer closer". He will take his own life to be closer to his victim. It can be a special person like a loved one. Not just any victim. -
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