VOLBEAT | Cape of our Hero
Autor sám v jednom z rozhovorů řekl, že jde o velmi emotivní song a přišlo mi, že připouští emotivnost lehce přes čáru. Přesto si za ním stojí a zrovna tenhle kus patří mezi moje top. Nikoliv kvůli silnému emotivnímu zabarvení, ale kvůli heroičnosti, která je zřetelná jak z textu tak hudby.
Přiznám se, že jsem tenhle příběh vnímala zcela jinak, než autor zamýšlel. Jeho vize byla popsat vztah otce a syna. Kdy chlapec věřící v superhrdiny takového suprehrdinu vidí právě ve svém otci. Když o něj nakonec přijde, všechno v co věřil je pryč. Přemýšlí však o tom, že kdyby existovali andělé, mohli by ho vynést do nebe, kde by se setkal se svým superhrdinou. Dostal by od něj plášť, který by mu umožnil létat a hledat svého otce.
Zdroj: blabbermouth.com
Zdá se však, že inspirací Michaelovi Poulsenovi nebyly jenom komiksy, které nejspíš četl, když byl ještě mrně (možná je čte doteď)… ale také slova Josepha Campbella:
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth new life. If the seed does not die, there is no plant.
Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people.
If you are lifeworthy, you can take it. What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
The world is a match for us. we are a match for the world. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
The Hero’s Journey (On Living in the World) by Joseph Campbell
Out of the perfection nothing will and can be made The old skin has to shed before the new one sees the day Opportunities to find the deeper powers in ourselves Come when life is breathing and seem more than what it is Go blindly completely You tell me how I can fly away And believe that all the angels are coming You bring me down then I will fly again And believe that all the angels are coming The kingdom of the fathers and the heroes where are you I’m talking to you every night more than I should do What awaits and when will be the day When I can wear the cape I’m lying on the ground as always staring into the air Go blindly completely You tell me how I can fly away And believe that all the angels are coming You bring me down then I will fly again And believe that all the angels are coming The stars are long gone but we can still see their glow Long after they’ve skidded off into oblivion Zdroj: Volbeat.dk
Out of the perfection nothing will and can be made The old skin has to shed before the new one sees the day Opportunities to find the deeper powers in ourselves Come when life is breathing and seem more than what it is Go blindly completely You tell me how I can fly away And believe that all the angels are coming You bring me down then I will fly again And believe that all the angels are coming The kingdom of the fathers and the heroes where are you I’m talking to you every night more than I should do What awaits and when will be the day When I can wear the cape I’m lying on the ground as always staring into the air Go blindly completely You tell me how I can fly away And believe that all the angels are coming You bring me down then I will fly again And believe that all the angels are coming The stars are long gone but we can still see their glow Long after they’ve skidded off into oblivion