gepard playlist analysis continued. part 2 / listen here. this somehow went from being a mostly epic the musical playlist to a bring me the horizon playlist.
blasphemy. bring me the horizon. the first verse touches on the topic of knowing something is wrong but turning a blind eye to it, there's been times where gep felt things within the silvermane guard and with the supreme guardian weren't right but he didn't speak up on them. bend the knee and give away your life also referring to the oath the guard swears to follow. your faith has you immured in the chorus sort of touches upon gepard being confined within the faith and loyalty he has to the supreme guardian. you're not blessed, you're cursed relating to the preservation and how while preaching this ideal the lives lost are fleeting and aren't truly protected by it. verse 3 again talking about this concept of right and wrong which has been his truth for a long time, it not making sense to him anymore but it must be right because it's the supreme guardian's will. the blood, sweat, the sacrifice that's the guard, their training, their enduring, their deaths sacrificed to keep belobog safe. Hearing no voice when they pray at night could either be directed at the fact that the supreme guardian doesn't hear them or that qliphoth doesn't care / won't save them. but they swore their oath and they cannot turn back.
remember everything. five finger death punch. both verse one and verse two reflect on the complicated relationship gepard has with his family, while the mother and father one aren't as obvious as the one talking about sister and brother in the second verse they are both applicable. especially when it says 'father in your eyes i never added up' being the pressure that is put on his shoulders to reach his father's expectations. the dear sister dont blame me, I only did what I thought was truly right talks about the guilt he feels for letting serval down in his belief that the supreme guardian was right, that he chose his loyalty over his family. the outro talks about how one cannot change the past and how they will always remember everything, this in relation to loss and grief. It's about those days before death came into his life feeling so fleeting and now they're inescapable memories.
cold. five finger death punch. the chorus here talking about how no one wants the blame to me felt in correlation with belobog's situation in relation to the supreme guardian and those in power. it's all so wrong but who am I to say shows Gepard reflecting on how he knows, past the loyalty that he has, that what is happening is wrong but is it in his power to say something against it. no, it's not. the second verse mostly relates from the line that implies that one is enslaved by rules which gepard very much is and then it goes on to say somehow, someday, i'll have to turn the page giving the feeling of change in belobog and how despite having wanted that before now is the time to see it through.
president perfect. caleb hyles. this is a almost light hearted but also impactful song in contrast to alot of other songs on his playlist but it reflects the internal struggle between being in love with someone and having this notion that it's wrong. when it says I see a face in the window and my brain starts to go it really shows that his position won't allow him to foster the feelings he has and that it could potentially ruin him. I've spoken about how alot of Gepard's life has encompassed love as compromise and here where it says love you dont even know reflects that.
behind blue eyes. limp bizkit. this one's just this excerpt from verse 2 but it feels impactful with seeing that Gepard forces back his emotions alot and bites back on his anger, how pain can't be shown. it's alot to do with expression and how he's been encouraged if not sort of forced to not express it. ( not so much force bc at the end of the day it's his decision to act as he does but his life doesn't accommodate expression )
birds. imagine dragons. this song was giving huge leo & gep vibes and that's sort of why this is on his playlist but it also speaks to grief and losing someone who is close to you. Gepard has lost plenty of friends / colleagues in the battle against the fragmentum.
drown. bring me the horizon. from verse one talking about loss and grieving and how the longer someone withstands it the more of a toll it takes on them. The last line where it says the weight of the world's getting harder to hold up talking about enduring in spite of death and loss and again, it's taking a fucking toll on him. The chorus line where it says who will drag me out alive could literally be talking about hauling his ass back from the front lines and him almost dying over and over again like. he's saving everyone else who is going to save him ?
strangers. bring me the horizon. in the chorus where it talks about a room full of strangers consider every, single member of the silvermane guard and what they do and do not know about each other, truly, when they first join they are pretty much strangers to one another. alone together, we're dying to live and we're living to die talking about how much many of them want to live and how by swearing the oath many of them are condemned to death. verse 2 last 2 lines really touching upon saying that they're going to make it, training and believing themselves strong only to end up witnessing their colleagues deaths. dragging themselves through hell could be directed towards either the frontlines themselves and the hellscape it can become or navigating loss. the bridge saying we're all alone talking about how the separation between guard / protector and the citizens is actually quite isolating. there's no place like home to me is like looking back on belobog and almost feeling dejected because protecting it has come at such a grave cost.
