Ce sixième album, baptisé Hearthandsky (Terre et Ciel si vous préférez), paraîtra le 27 septembre via Rise Records et verra donc le jour un an et sept mois seulement après le précédent opus Defy présenté en janvier 2018. "Mushroom Cloud" est le second extrait de ce disque, présenté deux mois après "How To Survive" dont la vidéo faisait déjà référence à un cataclysme nucléaire.
Cette fois, même si la représentation d'une dystopie reste de mise, il est davantage question de santé mentale, de l'intérêt de ne pas trop se concentrer sur ses pensées ou de ne pas trop se parler à soi-même (se sont d'ailleurs bien souvent les premiers signes de troubles psychotiques ou de schizophrénie). Un sujet plutôt dur et compliqué mentionné par Aarone Pauley en interview : "I was pretty young when I became aware of the danger of spending too much time in my own head. My mind has never been a safe place for me to retreat to, and it's something I have to consciously deal with on a daily basis. 'Mushroom Cloud' is our visceral representation of how it feels to be trapped, how it feels to be cut down by your own inner voice, how it feels to have nowhere to hide, and how it feels to be someone with a mind that's as dangerous to themselves as the aftermath of an atomic weapon." Voilà qui justifie la puissance de ce morceau, sans doute l'un des plus violents du catalogue de Of Mice & Men.
Have you ever felt the chains of life around your wrist,
When it shoves the grenade right in your mouth then pulls the pin,
And do you really know just what it's like to never fucking sleep,
Or what it's like to remind yourself that the voices don't pull the strings
They're not real to you but they're real to me, I know I'm spiraling, I'm just waiting to detonate,
3, 2, 1, Boom. Countdown to insanity, Ignite the fuse and immolate,
I've got a mind like a mushroom cloud,
I'll either perish in the flames or be frozen in the fallout.
Can someone sound the alarm ? This is not a test, I repeat this is not a test.
Does anyone hear the screaming from the trojan horse burning inside of my head ?
If hell is really empty, then maybe the demons found a home in there instead.
They're not real to you, but they're real to me. They set my mind ablaze every time that I detonate.
I am in control. But where do you hide when the thoughts running through your mind trip ?
Where do you hide when the thoughts running through your head trip the landmine ?
Boom.
I've got a mind like a mushroom cloud.
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