Ed Harcourt – Here Be Monsters lyrics

Ed Harcourt – Here Be Monsters lyrics

Fell in the well
Church rang a bell
Priests they just tried to help but he went straight to
Hell
Lost in the flames, such a shame
Here be monsters again
Here be monsters again

Brain wash the weak
Join up the clique
Overcome by peer pressure turn the other cheek
Lost in the flames, such a shame
Here be monsters

Ah, he lost the plot, and for what?

Here be monsters again
Here be monsters again

And they roam the land so free
And they look like you and me

Do do do do do do (x4)

Oh lost in the flames
Such a shame
Here be monsters again
Well he lost the plot, but for what?
Here be monsters again
Here be monsters again

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Unregistered 2022-06-07 07:58:21

For me, the meaning of the song is similar to returning to or being lost in something of malice. From the title it mention "Here be monsters *again*", insinuating the returning to I mentioned before. With the word choices of "lost in flames" pointing towards being lost in a desire. Going to the line mentioning the priests and hell, priests could symbolize the efforts of trying to change or steer away from hell, hell being the (perhaps mental) state of being deep in the desire. The mentions of the joining the clique and "brainwashing" shows a sort of submission or transformation, creating a worse disillusion and state for the character. The line saying "and they look like you and me" clearly grounds that the problem or conflict is human, nothing beyond normal. And of course the main line, "Here be monsters again," concludes that the character has been transformed into a "monster," in hell. Lost, and back to their old, harming, ways.

TL;DR: Despite the changes the person went through, in the end all was for nought, as they returned to their former state as a "monster"

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Unregistered 2012-04-22 04:28:00

I wonder if the whole meaning of the song is just a sort of factual thing. He uses flames "hell" as a sort of evil that consumes people. And that means that people that succumb to such "flames" tend to be monsters. Also it takes the meaning of monsters and turns it into less of a mythical or literal meaning and turns it into something along the lines of "anyone that neglects their emotion and their logic at the same time is essentually a monster. " or maybe it could be rephrased better than how I put it.

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