The Boy is leaving the safe confines of his childhood home, realizing that there is nothing holding or binding him to there. The world is beckoning him to explore it, but the prospect is terrifying. The Boy is struggling with his innocence and naivety. Led to view life and think about things a certain way by his father, he comes to terms with the price he’s paid for not taking responsibility for his own self at all. Now that he’s being forced into the world he will see and experience many new things, and his true self will reveal itself through the process.
He chastises himself for having lived a happy life so devoid of knowledge about the outside world, “euphorically floating” on his own wings of naivety throughout childhood. Now that he is being forced to venture beyond his familiar surroundings he is finding himself utterly unequipped to handle any of it. His blissful ignorance has led him straight towards the sun, and the inevitable descent will be painful.
Sö Anmol óu Í Tûmsoik
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(translated) The Lake and The River
Everything you’d live and die for
Reasons leading you through here
Perished matriarchal bonds failing innocence of love
When the world beckons your approach
It swallows you whole
You’ll believe what you’re led to believe
In the hands of gods we’re never responsible
Wait to see what you’re meant to see
The veil lifts when you expose your soul
Pray’d I would leave this place someday
Joined to alarm from long ago now unconcerned
Euphorically floating upon between: where is the Son?
I still see her face; her beauty, her grace
Transfixed like a light in front of me
It follows my soul;
And swallows me whole
His branches reached so far before
His leaves were bold extremities with great control
Wasted along; He’d die alone
- The Crown Wars (translated by Rithör Læmbén)
Scene II: The Lake and The River
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