The Carpet Crawlers Lyrics Meaning

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.

The carpet crawlers lyrics meaning.

So all things considered this track reads like a criticism of those who blindly follow societal ideologies. Verse 1 there is lambswool under my naked feet. Carpet crawlers as well as most of the lamb album is about escaping the new world rael finds himself in. 1 18 18 i died after 4 min.

And that is the carpet crawlers in a nutshell. But the crawlers are moving in time to a heavy wooden door a clear church reference. There is lambswool under my naked feet. Gives off some kind of heat.

The lyrics of carpet crawlers sound a lot like sperm reaching an egg but it can be summed up as you ve got to get in to get out. It s all part of the story of rael. A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed. 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.

And the themes this particular part centers on are ones of conformity false hope and drudgery. Into flame to be destroyed. The wool is soft and warm. 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.

Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid. The wool is soft and warm gives off some kind of heat. 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.