Arcade Edits has a good lyric video for Euclid so you can see the lyrics as they occur, just fyi. Also. Fuckin’ GALAXY BRAIN ANALYSIS ON THE THREE HEADED FIGURE MY GUY. Holy shit. Good job!
THIS! THIS 100x thank you, sir. I came here to say this! Holy smokes, it's one dot connecting after another and another, all the callbacks. Such clever, intentional, intricate, and brilliant dots connecting. The more I listen to their music, watch reactions, and read comments, the more I continue to discover. They consistently amaze me.
Sometimes I feel like this song is from Vessel singing to the fans in the audience. He felt like he was nothing before, and going no where.. but the crowds have rained their love upon and it's changed him.
I just realized that in rain he means that his REFLECTION smiled at him like back in DYWTYLM. I was confused because it gets darker again in TMBTE but it makes sense because TMBTE is about the relationship which still doesn’t make him happy.
I see this song as him finding someone new that is bringing him out of his darkness and helped him stop crying that's where he salt comes from all the tears he's cried. He also says when he opens his eyes to the future I can hear you say my name so like you said he can see a future with her. But I also think it's a shout out to his fans which. He kinda confirms in the ( conversation between him and sleep) at the Philly show recently. Sleep asks something about when he cries on stage that we think he's faking it and also asks him if he fakes it and he says no I don't and so sleep asked him do you ever see them crying and he says no I can only ever see them smiling but that's good I want them to smile!
I’m convinced sleep is the person he loved before that was in the wreck with him and past away, now there is new love interest who he’s struggling to love today while also struggling to leave his past love behind through the dreams and memories Also the first lyrics sound like his mentality is still near the ocean/Atlantic just waiting for no one as she’s past away and life is just passing him by until this new love smiled and touched him and washed the salt water and dust that he accumulated from his mental state of waiting/wanting for sleep
Very interesting analysis! I didn't think to make the connection(s) to Hecate, though they very much add up. There are plenty of Greek Mythology references in this one. I definitely was leaning more towards the Moirai from the character image, and themes from other songs. They represent the 3 Fates (3 sisters) who effectively are personifications of birth, life and death. Clotho (the spinner) is the beginning, spinning the thread of your life on the spindle (Thread the Needle maybe? First track on "One". The origin of Sleep Token) Atropos being the 3rd Fate, the end...death. She is responsible for "cutting the thread of life" ("Come now, bite through these wires"). Then there's the reference to the Stoics in the beginning (not sure if there's a link here to "stoic statue" and the "statues" from Atlantic) But a definite link to Atlantic with "wash out the salt from my hands" vs "Wash away the blood on my hands" The "mouth of the wolf and the eyes of the lamb", given the other Greek links, likely a reference to Aesop's Fables "The Wolf and the Lamb" as an allegory for people abusing strength over the weaker and innocent. The snakes are an easy tie-in to the "Eden" narrative, as an inherent part of the Garden ("you are a garden, entwined with all" - The Offering). With all that said, I think the wrapping up of the trilogy and Vessel's healing journey - I think the "new" love is either the music or the fans - or both. Euclid is practically a direct thank you to the followers of the band - and his almost-direct message during the room below show "The truth is I did not save anybody. You saved me". Such a fascinating band to analyze and be a part of experiencing 🙏
Hekate/Hecate is the Greek Goddess with 3 heads, i wanna say the heads represent Mother, Maiden, and Crone but that might be my squirrel brain mixing up mythologies haha.
The three-headed Hekate, Hekate Trikephalos, was associated with three-way crossroads. The Mother-Maiden-Crone thing is a more modern pagan idea. It's fine, but I don't think it has any basis in historical religious practice. I love this stuff, and i'm glad someone commented on it. :D
@@henbit3568 Ohhh yeah, thank you, I couldn't remember for sure if the mother, maiden, crone bit was part of original mythos or a modern addition ☺️. Also thank you for the additions, I'm sleep deprived and medicated so I'm sadly not as quick as usual 💜. Mythology and history are so fascinating, it's always a pleasure when there's folks to chat with about it 🥰
I'm so looking forward to seeing you do Euclid. It's coming full circle and I want to see when you start connecting the dots. I expect a lot of pauses.
Dude your insights are fire. I wanted to say this about you wondering what salt symbolism is. Salt is harsh. Salt rusts cars and eats away at things. The new relationship washes away everything that eats away at him. Maybe? Either way love the reactions so far I subbed.
One of my absolute favourites from that album and I have the same interpretation than you: he finally met someone new and is ready to live his past behind (or at least try to). The triple goddess could very well be Hecate, but also Diana (associated with crossroads, the moon and hunting, but also fertility and ... childbirth. If the theory of the lost baby is accurate, it could fit). I think there is another call back to Aqua Regia, "And these days I'm a picture frame - Screaming at the sunshine, singing in the rain". I guess he calls on the cleansing properties of the rain to help him leave the darkness behind. And I second everbody else: no peaking at Euclid's lyrics before the reaction, pleaaaase! :p
Euclid will literally blow your mind. The amount of references, throwbacks, resolutions, etc happening will just take you to a whole new place... I can already see you screaming to the screen when going through the song! What a PERFECT ending to the album 🙌🏼
Watching your journey through the entire catalog has been amazing. As much as they’ve sucked you in, I cannot wait to watch you experience Euclid for the first time. It’s such an incredible way to close a masterpiece of an album.
Definitely do not have the lyrics up....thats cheating 😋 It's so good! Can't wait! When you finally get to Euclid, its going to come full circle and your reaction will be better if you're only listening and not reading the lyrics. Have enjoyed your videos so much on this journey. There are other bands that are great, but it's not the same without the "trilogy" of back story. Sleep Token is so unique and special that way. At least now you can binge all their music! 😁🤘😎🤘 Love ponytail bobbing with the head banging 😂. Thanks for the great reactions! ❤ Worship ❤
I have a suggestion for a band for you to check out. They are called Haste the Day. Two songs I would highly recommend checking out are The Place Where Most Deny ft. Micah Kinard from Oh, Sleeper (another great band and one you should check out) and White as Snow from their album Attack of the Wolf King.
So, this might be far fetched but. In Jaws, she's was looking at him with the eyes of a predator. Here, he says he's got the eyes of a lamb - a prey-ish animal. It might not have any connection but I joked about it by saying predator/prey is a sexual thing and Vessel might be bottom.
I'm going to agree with the other comments, do NOT have the Euclid lyrics up when you react to it. I believe you're one of few reactors that will truly appreciate the song in it's entirety and I don't want you spoiling yourself!
DON’T HAVE THE LYRICS TO EUCLID UP WHEN YOU LISTEN, you need to experience it without spoiling yourself! I can’t wait! 😄
Arcade Edits has a good lyric video for Euclid so you can see the lyrics as they occur, just fyi.
Also. Fuckin’ GALAXY BRAIN ANALYSIS ON THE THREE HEADED FIGURE MY GUY. Holy shit. Good job!
Agreed
AGREED
THIS!!!
Salt - he asked Atlantic to wash out the blood from his hands. Now he is asking the Rain to wash out the salt (leftover from Atlantic) from his hands.
THIS! THIS 100x thank you, sir. I came here to say this! Holy smokes, it's one dot connecting after another and another, all the callbacks. Such clever, intentional, intricate, and brilliant dots connecting. The more I listen to their music, watch reactions, and read comments, the more I continue to discover. They consistently amaze me.
This 💯
I agree with everyone here saying to not have the lyrics pulled up for Euclid until after you hear the song!
Sometimes I feel like this song is from Vessel singing to the fans in the audience. He felt like he was nothing before, and going no where.. but the crowds have rained their love upon and it's changed him.
Like someone else said, I would NOT have the lyrics for Euclid up before you hear it.
I just realized that in rain he means that his REFLECTION smiled at him like back in DYWTYLM. I was confused because it gets darker again in TMBTE but it makes sense because TMBTE is about the relationship which still doesn’t make him happy.
I’m so glad you caught that because that’s what I was going to say
I see this song as him finding someone new that is bringing him out of his darkness and helped him stop crying that's where he salt comes from all the tears he's cried. He also says when he opens his eyes to the future I can hear you say my name so like you said he can see a future with her. But I also think it's a shout out to his fans which. He kinda confirms in the ( conversation between him and sleep) at the Philly show recently. Sleep asks something about when he cries on stage that we think he's faking it and also asks him if he fakes it and he says no I don't and so sleep asked him do you ever see them crying and he says no I can only ever see them smiling but that's good I want them to smile!
For a fun Easter Egg: if you listen closely to the beginning of Chokehold, you can hear the birds from Take Me Back To Eden in the background
Reaction request: Oktaf Kanis - Come On, thanks 🔥
I’m convinced sleep is the person he loved before that was in the wreck with him and past away, now there is new love interest who he’s struggling to love today while also struggling to leave his past love behind through the dreams and memories
Also the first lyrics sound like his mentality is still near the ocean/Atlantic just waiting for no one as she’s past away and life is just passing him by until this new love smiled and touched him and washed the salt water and dust that he accumulated from his mental state of waiting/wanting for sleep
Very interesting analysis! I didn't think to make the connection(s) to Hecate, though they very much add up. There are plenty of Greek Mythology references in this one.
I definitely was leaning more towards the Moirai from the character image, and themes from other songs. They represent the 3 Fates (3 sisters) who effectively are personifications of birth, life and death.
Clotho (the spinner) is the beginning, spinning the thread of your life on the spindle (Thread the Needle maybe? First track on "One". The origin of Sleep Token)
Atropos being the 3rd Fate, the end...death. She is responsible for "cutting the thread of life" ("Come now, bite through these wires").
Then there's the reference to the Stoics in the beginning (not sure if there's a link here to "stoic statue" and the "statues" from Atlantic)
But a definite link to Atlantic with "wash out the salt from my hands" vs "Wash away the blood on my hands"
The "mouth of the wolf and the eyes of the lamb", given the other Greek links, likely a reference to Aesop's Fables "The Wolf and the Lamb" as an allegory for people abusing strength over the weaker and innocent.
The snakes are an easy tie-in to the "Eden" narrative, as an inherent part of the Garden ("you are a garden, entwined with all" - The Offering).
With all that said, I think the wrapping up of the trilogy and Vessel's healing journey - I think the "new" love is either the music or the fans - or both.
Euclid is practically a direct thank you to the followers of the band - and his almost-direct message during the room below show "The truth is I did not save anybody. You saved me".
Such a fascinating band to analyze and be a part of experiencing 🙏
Knowing Vessel, this could very well add up 🤘
Yes please please please either do a lyric video or no lyrics up for Euclid
Also this doesn’t have to be your last sleep token, they have covers and live versions of songs like “Hallelujah” that you can only find on RUclips.
That cover lives in my head
@@urfvsuthrngal318 I love it so much. So powerful 😭
Best moment "I'm about to put my tin foil hat on". Great video, glad you enjoyed this song, one of my absolute favorites!
Got to see them last night, life changing.
Worship.
You have more subscribers from this series because you invest in each song. We all love that.
Rain comes down very hard, I love this song. I am so excited for you to experience the end of this journey we've been on.
Worship.
Hekate/Hecate is the Greek Goddess with 3 heads, i wanna say the heads represent Mother, Maiden, and Crone but that might be my squirrel brain mixing up mythologies haha.
The three-headed Hekate, Hekate Trikephalos, was associated with three-way crossroads. The Mother-Maiden-Crone thing is a more modern pagan idea. It's fine, but I don't think it has any basis in historical religious practice.
I love this stuff, and i'm glad someone commented on it. :D
@@henbit3568 Ohhh yeah, thank you, I couldn't remember for sure if the mother, maiden, crone bit was part of original mythos or a modern addition ☺️. Also thank you for the additions, I'm sleep deprived and medicated so I'm sadly not as quick as usual 💜. Mythology and history are so fascinating, it's always a pleasure when there's folks to chat with about it 🥰
I'm so looking forward to seeing you do Euclid. It's coming full circle and I want to see when you start connecting the dots. I expect a lot of pauses.
Dude your insights are fire. I wanted to say this about you wondering what salt symbolism is. Salt is harsh. Salt rusts cars and eats away at things. The new relationship washes away everything that eats away at him. Maybe? Either way love the reactions so far I subbed.
One of my absolute favourites from that album and I have the same interpretation than you: he finally met someone new and is ready to live his past behind (or at least try to).
The triple goddess could very well be Hecate, but also Diana (associated with crossroads, the moon and hunting, but also fertility and ... childbirth. If the theory of the lost baby is accurate, it could fit). I think there is another call back to Aqua Regia, "And these days I'm a picture frame - Screaming at the sunshine, singing in the rain". I guess he calls on the cleansing properties of the rain to help him leave the darkness behind.
And I second everbody else: no peaking at Euclid's lyrics before the reaction, pleaaaase! :p
This song live is so fucking good, the stomp beat with the audience is electric. Hope you get a chance to see them live some day
It takes the goddess of three-ways to reel in a dude like Vessel. Brown chicken brown cow 🎶
I did not have a Trace Adkins reference on my Bingo card. Damn 😂
🤣
Euclid will literally blow your mind.
The amount of references, throwbacks, resolutions, etc happening will just take you to a whole new place...
I can already see you screaming to the screen when going through the song!
What a PERFECT ending to the album 🙌🏼
!!!PLEASE DON'T HAVE THE LYRICS UP FOR EUCLID!!!
Watching your journey through the entire catalog has been amazing. As much as they’ve sucked you in, I cannot wait to watch you experience Euclid for the first time. It’s such an incredible way to close a masterpiece of an album.
Def someone new, and I'm glad he found someone new.
You need to check out live vresion of this song
You need to watch shelter and how rain calls back to shelter
BING BANG BOOM
Would love to see you watch the covers too i think youll thoroughly enjoy them as well! The hallelujah covet and the Loathe cover are so good
Do you remember my name or you dont remember my name pops up in one of the songs in tpwbyt - someone remebered the name in this song
Definitely do not have the lyrics up....thats cheating 😋
It's so good! Can't wait!
When you finally get to Euclid, its going to come full circle and your reaction will be better if you're only listening and not reading the lyrics.
Have enjoyed your videos so much on this journey. There are other bands that are great, but it's not the same without the "trilogy" of back story. Sleep Token is so unique and special that way. At least now you can binge all their music! 😁🤘😎🤘
Love ponytail bobbing with the head banging 😂.
Thanks for the great reactions!
❤ Worship ❤
This is honestly one of my favorite songs on the album. Now I'm ready to see you lose your mind to Euclid.🤘🔥🤘😝
I have a suggestion for a band for you to check out. They are called Haste the Day. Two songs I would highly recommend checking out are The Place Where Most Deny ft. Micah Kinard from Oh, Sleeper (another great band and one you should check out) and White as Snow from their album Attack of the Wolf King.
So, this might be far fetched but.
In Jaws, she's was looking at him with the eyes of a predator.
Here, he says he's got the eyes of a lamb - a prey-ish animal.
It might not have any connection but I joked about it by saying predator/prey is a sexual thing and Vessel might be bottom.
no lyrics for euclid seconded
I'm going to agree with the other comments, do NOT have the Euclid lyrics up when you react to it. I believe you're one of few reactors that will truly appreciate the song in it's entirety and I don't want you spoiling yourself!
*puts tin foil hat* what about the gods???? 🧐🧐🧐