There is some levity however, with perhaps something to counteract the seer's destruction in Song for a Warrior, though it's hard to tell if the light within the warrior is actually something new or just the seer again. The seer itself is some entity that can "see it all" and possesses several characters over the course of the album, from the child in Lunacy, to the wolf vessel on the album art, to the singers in The Seer Returns and Avatar. I think it's more just the idea of cosmic horrors, evil, darkness, and destruction. Tbk is definitely about time spent on earth, with themes from the innocence and mortal limitations of mankind (to be kind, just a little boy) to the pollution of that innocence (oxygen, some things we do) to humans attempting to channel something beyond them, a sort of godlike energy (a little god in my hands, nathalie neal).Īnd the seer, while a hellish album, doesn't really have any references to hell. There's plenty of religious subtext to all of the albums so it's not out of the question, and it really nails in the idea that tgm = heaven. I'm not sure if it's been confirmed by swans that tgm is Joseph if not, my interpretation would be a divine figure in history like Jesus Christ, who literally is your guide to the afterlife in the Christian faith. It ties into the trilogy too with lyrics like on its coming, it's real (which is entirely about death and the end of things imo) where you "reach out for the hand of the glowing half-man" as a guide to the afterlife. The point where you leave meaning and enter a world where there is no meaning that a human mind could comprehend. is the transitioning phase, all about death and the end of things. I will say that if the trilogy is a metaphor for this world and possible afterlifes, leaving meaning. A lot of swans writing falls into that ephemeral camp so it's hard to really string together a story, though common themes are definitely present.
I mean the seers entire premise only came about because Michael started chanting "I see it all" during a live performance of the instrumental, completely improv. I think tonally the trilogy lines up with the hell, earth, heaven idea, but it probably wasn't originally intended that way.
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