I’ve come to realize seeing that this is from the murder ballads of 1816 I firmly believe that this is about the Underground Railroad. For the time it would have been common practice to hide away in secret areas mainly under the floor.
Love this song. I once used it to seriously creepy out my dnd party. Everything was super tense before a huge battle and we were trying to have last meal before went to fight but all we had was gruel so my character who grew up in a death cult "prayed" over the food, using part of this song, and cast prestidigitation to make it taste better. While they all appreciated the gesture, she also made everything like 10x tenser. It was a fun character moment
There's a certain beauty to this song. While is does get creepier halfway through, the first half almost feels wholesome and innocent. While other songs involve a lot of families killing each other, this one involves family staying together. Holding hands, praying for the return of Summer.
Based off other comments, this song could be about a starving family who killed another family for their food and they are hiding from A. other hungry people, B. the sheriff, or C. the ghosts. Remember, all these songs have to do with murder of some sort.
It gives me a canibalist vibe for sure, but also reminds me of the jewish people who had to hide during the second world war, and it being described from their view point, being why they talk about blessing the boards above their head, and the refrences to needing to be quiet in the beginning of te song. Like it goes from them being hidden under someone's house to being found by the germans in the end. Don't know if it's true, but it's got that vibe down quite a bit too in my opinion
It's definitely about a family hiding. The boards above our heads definitely means floor boards. Especially when it comes to the pa telling his daughter to hush as they blow out candles. Perhaps, they did some unspeakable act such as cannibalism, and in hopes for survival, they hide away from the law. Hence the dogs digging at the chains, and people breaking in the gate. It's the law coming for them
*_going out:_*_ Let's get this bread._ *_goes to the store:_*_ Let's spend this bread!_ *_shares what I have with friends:_*_ LET'S SPREAD THIS BREAD!_ *_kills another family for nourishment and hides in the basement with my family as to not face the wrath of the law/the forks of another starving family:_*_ L E T ' S B L E S S T H I S B R E A D_
My interpretation is that this family is praying as they get ready to eat, either food stolen from another murdered family, or as they cannibalize said family, meanwhile they are hiding either in their own house and "the law" is looking for them or they are hiding out in the home of the murdered family. Whatever remains of the family they murdered is below the shed, hence the line of the prayer "keep our sins below the shed" generally when praying keep means protect, they are praying that whoever is looking for them doesnt find those "sins"
I think this has to do a lot with hiding, considering it is talking about boards above the head, and the beginning and definitely the end, how they sang in such hushed tones. Based on the line about a stain in the hall that wouldn’t go away, and knowledge on how annoying it is to get blood stains out of things, I think it is safe to assume that a murder of some kind happened in the house above them, and they are definitely hiding from the law. Considering that there is an involvement of the mark of Cain, and that there is mentions of Adam and Eve in the previous song, I think drawing some lines to connecting bread with the body would be a safe assumption as well, so the bread is both probably food they stole, and people they murdered to eat. I’m not sure though, I’m just basing this all off of what other people in the comments have put along with my own speculations.
I feel like this song is about cannibalism, specifically because it centers around a family at dinner time, and this EP seems to be all about the people suffering through the 'year without summer'. If you can't grow any food then eventually you may become hungry enough to eat a person. Then they hide what is left of them (or maybe people they catch for future meals) under they're shed. Just my thoughts on it though, I could be wrong. :>
Something about the phrasing means something different to me. Specifically things like the squeezing past the crates bit. And the boards above our head rather than the roof above our head. Having to keep the child quite and the lights out. The creaking board sounds and the way the prayer gets quieter and more frightened. I feel like their hiding in, in a cellar. Where storage crates and the like are kept. Like they've broken in to avoid the summer that isn't. Like they are afraid to be caught. Whether the family are the murderers or the victims I don't know, but I got a very distinct 'hiding' vibe from the whole thing.
Winter Rose Yeah. I was unsure about that bit too. Don't have an explanation for it. But yeah, got the hiding vibe as well. My sister said it reminded her of people hiding from the Nazis in attics. Then I had to remind her it takes place in 1816. Definitely harder to decode the story for this one. Interesting to here other ideas. :>
That was right around the time that that African Americans were coming up from the south, that slavery was being legislated against in the north, and things like the American Colonization Society were being formed. For "Colonization as a solution to the 'problem' of free blacks" which if I remember right was basically a crap ton of white people wanting to round up all the black people and ship them 'back' to Africa to recolonize that and get them out of the US. Add that to people going nuts because of the winter, and starting to kill people in general. I could see the 'us verses them' mentality when there is so little to go around in the first place. I sure as hell would be hiding at that point, if I couldn't get my family out.
The song kind of makes me think of the bloody Benders, although they didn't have a little girl. They were a "family" who used to murder travelers in order to rob them. But thar happened later than 1816
This one of the spookiest songs I have ever heard, I feel the fear as the prayer chorus gets more intense with the creaks and cracking noises....So good! A favorite!
Bless this table, bless this bread. Bless the boards above our head. Keep our sins beneath the shed. We do not eat in bed. Conspiracy theory: this song's secretly about table manners
I think they ate the mom. The first verse makes us think that the mom is alive cause ‘she butters the rolls with a tune’ and then it says that he sits next to his wife. But I believe it’s talking about the daughter instead of the mom in the first verse because of the line ‘they blow the candles out two by two’ implying that there are only two people there. Even though three people are mentioned. So they’re eating the mom and that’s the sin.
I’ve come to realize seeing that this is from the murder ballads of 1816 I firmly believe that this is about the Underground Railroad. For the time it would have been common practice to hide away in secret areas mainly under the floor.
Love this song. I once used it to seriously creepy out my dnd party. Everything was super tense before a huge battle and we were trying to have last meal before went to fight but all we had was gruel so my character who grew up in a death cult "prayed" over the food, using part of this song, and cast prestidigitation to make it taste better. While they all appreciated the gesture, she also made everything like 10x tenser. It was a fun character moment
I wish I still be part of a DnD party! Your character sounds so funny I want them to be friends with mine
There's a certain beauty to this song. While is does get creepier halfway through, the first half almost feels wholesome and innocent. While other songs involve a lot of families killing each other, this one involves family staying together. Holding hands, praying for the return of Summer.
You're adorable.
@@lilywaterflower3502 _Pfft_
... I guess a family that kills together stays together...
Based off other comments, this song could be about a starving family who killed another family for their food and they are hiding from A. other hungry people, B. the sheriff, or C. the ghosts. Remember, all these songs have to do with murder of some sort.
Rachel Roberts wishful thinking. I suspect anthropophagy.
Rachel Roberts I got a cannibalism vibe, or they hid the bodies under the house.
It gives me a canibalist vibe for sure, but also reminds me of the jewish people who had to hide during the second world war, and it being described from their view point, being why they talk about blessing the boards above their head, and the refrences to needing to be quiet in the beginning of te song. Like it goes from them being hidden under someone's house to being found by the germans in the end. Don't know if it's true, but it's got that vibe down quite a bit too in my opinion
It's definitely about a family hiding. The boards above our heads definitely means floor boards. Especially when it comes to the pa telling his daughter to hush as they blow out candles. Perhaps, they did some unspeakable act such as cannibalism, and in hopes for survival, they hide away from the law. Hence the dogs digging at the chains, and people breaking in the gate. It's the law coming for them
I assumed it's about an escaped slave family hiding from the slavecatchers.
Maybe the law is just.....hungry
I believe the song is actually slaves hiding along the Underground Railroad.
*_going out:_*_ Let's get this bread._
*_goes to the store:_*_ Let's spend this bread!_
*_shares what I have with friends:_*_ LET'S SPREAD THIS BREAD!_
*_kills another family for nourishment and hides in the basement with my family as to not face the wrath of the law/the forks of another starving family:_*_ L E T ' S B L E S S T H I S B R E A D_
_3:35__ Y'all did us dirty with that chord change._
My interpretation is that this family is praying as they get ready to eat, either food stolen from another murdered family, or as they cannibalize said family, meanwhile they are hiding either in their own house and "the law" is looking for them or they are hiding out in the home of the murdered family.
Whatever remains of the family they murdered is below the shed, hence the line of the prayer "keep our sins below the shed" generally when praying keep means protect, they are praying that whoever is looking for them doesnt find those "sins"
I think this has to do a lot with hiding, considering it is talking about boards above the head, and the beginning and definitely the end, how they sang in such hushed tones. Based on the line about a stain in the hall that wouldn’t go away, and knowledge on how annoying it is to get blood stains out of things, I think it is safe to assume that a murder of some kind happened in the house above them, and they are definitely hiding from the law. Considering that there is an involvement of the mark of Cain, and that there is mentions of Adam and Eve in the previous song, I think drawing some lines to connecting bread with the body would be a safe assumption as well, so the bread is both probably food they stole, and people they murdered to eat. I’m not sure though, I’m just basing this all off of what other people in the comments have put along with my own speculations.
I feel like this song is about cannibalism, specifically because it centers around a family at dinner time, and this EP seems to be all about the people suffering through the 'year without summer'. If you can't grow any food then eventually you may become hungry enough to eat a person. Then they hide what is left of them (or maybe people they catch for future meals) under they're shed.
Just my thoughts on it though, I could be wrong. :>
Something about the phrasing means something different to me. Specifically things like the squeezing past the crates bit. And the boards above our head rather than the roof above our head. Having to keep the child quite and the lights out. The creaking board sounds and the way the prayer gets quieter and more frightened. I feel like their hiding in, in a cellar. Where storage crates and the like are kept. Like they've broken in to avoid the summer that isn't. Like they are afraid to be caught. Whether the family are the murderers or the victims I don't know, but I got a very distinct 'hiding' vibe from the whole thing.
Winter Rose Yeah. I was unsure about that bit too. Don't have an explanation for it. But yeah, got the hiding vibe as well. My sister said it reminded her of people hiding from the Nazis in attics. Then I had to remind her it takes place in 1816.
Definitely harder to decode the story for this one. Interesting to here other ideas. :>
InsanelyADD I can think of at least one type of family that might be hiding from possibly violent people getting more and more crazy in the 1800's.
Winter Rose Please share. :>
That was right around the time that that African Americans were coming up from the south, that slavery was being legislated against in the north, and things like the American Colonization Society were being formed. For "Colonization as a solution to the 'problem' of free blacks" which if I remember right was basically a crap ton of white people wanting to round up all the black people and ship them 'back' to Africa to recolonize that and get them out of the US. Add that to people going nuts because of the winter, and starting to kill people in general. I could see the 'us verses them' mentality when there is so little to go around in the first place.
I sure as hell would be hiding at that point, if I couldn't get my family out.
The song kind of makes me think of the bloody Benders, although they didn't have a little girl. They were a "family" who used to murder travelers in order to rob them. But thar happened later than 1816
This one of the spookiest songs I have ever heard, I feel the fear as the prayer chorus gets more intense with the creaks and cracking noises....So good! A favorite!
These guys have a dedicated fanbase someone named a rose among dragons something got a lot of us to want to check it out
Wait, me? I mean, makes sense, but from what video?
Wow, I don't think I've heard this one before.....damn. Terrance and Saar are truly gifted artists.
Bless this table, bless this bread.
Bless the boards above our head.
Keep our sins beneath the shed.
We do not eat in bed.
Conspiracy theory: this song's secretly about table manners
It's we don't eat alone not in bed. How do you get the lyrics wrong on a lyric video????
@@FuriosasWarRig hopefully it was a joke
It could almost be about the Bender family, but those murders took place in the 1870's....
I love this ep so much gdi
Buying!
little rolling bean O hai Bean!
Ik, it's about a family hiding m, but what if there hiding themselves from intruders. I imagine a lot of home invasions happened at the time
Its by The American Murder Story and they pride themselves on earning their name so I think that is a little innocent to be looking at it.
@@GreatPower-hd8fz I’m just saying. I wouldn’t want anyone to know I was home either back then.
Yeah this could easily be from the victims perspective!
@@nala7829 exactly
what the heck
I think they ate the mom. The first verse makes us think that the mom is alive cause ‘she butters the rolls with a tune’ and then it says that he sits next to his wife. But I believe it’s talking about the daughter instead of the mom in the first verse because of the line ‘they blow the candles out two by two’ implying that there are only two people there. Even though three people are mentioned. So they’re eating the mom and that’s the sin.