The Carpet Crawlers Lyrics Meaning

Into flame to be destroyed.

The carpet crawlers lyrics meaning.

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. And that is the carpet crawlers in a nutshell. 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. But the crawlers are moving in time to a heavy wooden door a clear church reference.

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. The wool is soft and warm. A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed. Gives off some kind of heat.

The carpet crawlers are sperm the red ochre corridor is the vagina needle s winking eye is perhaps the opening of the vagina or cervix only one direction is towards the waiting egg the spiral staircase is the fallopian tube the porcelain manquin is maybe the egg itself and the clincher you ve got to get in to get out. 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. Carpet crawlers as well as most of the lamb album is about escaping the new world rael finds himself in.

And the themes this particular part centers on are ones of conformity false hope and drudgery. There is lambswool under my naked feet. It s all part of the story of rael. Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid.

The fleas cling to the golden fleece hoping they ll find peace. The wool is soft and warm gives off some kind of heat. Verse 1 there is lambswool under my naked feet.