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Project 86: Sioux Lane Spirits Meaning

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Sioux Lane Spirits Lyrics

Daddy, she has your eyes
And when she grins you can only realize
The guilt she manifests so deep inside you
That your thin veneer of catechism can no longer hide
The voice you hear, her secret pain
As she digs the shiv into her placid...

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  1. Malkiyahu
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     Nov 5th 2010 !⃝

    Very good analysis. I just have a few differences of opinion.
    "Daddy, she has your eyes" means more than just that she's his biological daughter. It means that she has become like him. I don't think this song refers to suicide. Digging "the shiv into her placid veins" could be referring to self-mutilation, or it could just be referring to emotional self-destruction.
    Either way, it seems clear that the song is talking about her becoming like him. "Now she has your eyes. But she can't yet realize your ever-wayward eyes will be her demise." In other words, she's become like him (now she has his eyes), but she doesn't realize that it's destroying her.
    "She dances in the moonlight, collecting drops of the earthly dew, celebrating her exit from the benign sense of self she once knew." This is clearly saying that she's changed, her "benign sense of self" is gone, and she celebrates it because "she can't yet realize" that it "will be her demise." But then, "her cup now spills on her skirt" and "she cuts her knees in the dirt" and "she prays for the hourglass to flip and reverse." She finally realizes it has destroyed her, and she wishes things were different. She wishes she could go back to the way things were, to the way she was.

  2. brian.s.lynn
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     Feb 16th 2006 !⃝

    It would appear this is a song about the torture of a young girl/woman by her father and the thoughts that should pass through his mind, and did in hers.

    Daddy, she has your eyes
    (The fact that this is his biological daughter)
    And when she grins you can only realize
    The guilt she manifests so deep inside you
    (Talking about the guilt that should enter the heart of someone who molest his own daughter)
    That your thin veneer of catechism can no longer hide
    (The rules you live by do not cover up the sin and heartache that your actions inflict)
    The voice you hear, her secret pain
    (The sobbing he hears is the result of his actions)
    As she digs the shiv into her placid veins
    (The heartache she deals with has caused suicide)
    Something you wanted
    (His desire drove him to cause pain)
    But she can't yet realize Your ever wayward eyes
    (She doesn't understand his desire for her over her mother)
    Hoping to let her deep inside your disdain
    (Despising himself in some way drove him to abusing her)
    What was it that drove your feign
    Into another's arms, into another's bed
    (What drove him away from the relationship that was right with her mother, into this abusive one with her.)
    Writhe and burn, father you were
    (consequnces of this relationship, and once he crossed the line he was no longer acting as a father)
    She dances in the moonlight
    Collecting drops of the earthy dew
    Celebrating her exit
    From the benign sense of self she once knew
    Raising her heavy glass
    Her cup now spills on her skirt
    (A poetic desription of her suicide, and the blood she drenced her skit with a reference similar to in the Bible of Jesus stating "take drink, for this is my blood")
    She prays for the hourglass to flip and reverse
    (Wishing things could be as they were before her father's sin)

    The sum total I believe is actions have consequences have you looked at what your actions are going to cause?

    *** Granted I have not looked on the forums of the group's web-site or e-mailed any of them so this could merely be my interpetation of what I heard.


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