Consisting of
Ryan Shelkett (… Read Full Bio ↴Indie band from Baltimore, Maryland
Consisting of
Ryan Shelkett (vocals, guitar)
Charles Cole (rhodes, drums)
Alan Randall (bass)
Buck Holk (drums)
A dark and poignant merging of indie rock, hardcore and blues, Dead Red Sea strikes with a hushed aggression. Alienation and intensity mark the candid lyrics of frontman Ryan Shelkett (ex-Cross My Heart) who plays the melancholy everyman on Birds - his voice familiar and connecting - uncovering the charred aspects of his naked psyche. Through musical memoirs about insecurity, mistrust and self-loathing, he reveals the person trapped within his scrambled sense of self. The softly treading rhythm section provides the perfect accompaniment for Shelkett's earnest pop poetry. Weaving between sobering states of depression and energizing encounters with clarity, Birds is an exquisitely intimate affair flagged with songs that are soulful, drenched in feeling and charming.
The Red Sea
Dead Red Sea Lyrics
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The lyrics to Dead Red Sea's song The Red Sea paint a vivid picture of destruction and chaos. The opening lines "The sky is falling, the church is burning" give the impression that the end of the world is nigh. The imagery continues with "the river stopped running", "the ground is opening", and "nothing is surviving", further emphasizing the catastrophic nature of the situation.
The following lines, "we're headed into a new era of humanity / where diamonds turn back to coal / and flesh turns to machine", suggest a complete transformation of society as we know it. It seems that a new order is emerging, and it is not a pleasant one. The idea of landfills exploding and garbage turning into a city is particularly striking, implying that the very foundations of our civilization are being uprooted.
The final lines, "all the corpses rise from their grave / and bleed back into society", further illustrate this collapse of traditional norms and values. The dead rising from their graves is a classic apocalyptic image, and the fact that they are bleeding back into society gives the sense that everything we once knew is being recast in a new, gruesome form.
Overall, the lyrics to The Red Sea present a bleak and harrowing vision of the future. They suggest that we are on the cusp of a transformation that could be catastrophic for humanity.
Line by Line Meaning
The sky is falling.
The world is in chaos and nothing is certain anymore.
the church is burning.
Even institutions that were once thought to be stable and unchanging are crumbling.
the river stopped running.
The natural world is being destroyed and altered irreparably.
the ground is opening.
The very foundation of the world is shifting and unstable.
the earth has stopped moving.
Even the basic laws of nature seem to have been upended.
nothing is surviving.
The destruction is complete and there is little hope for the future.
we're headed into a new era of humanity.
This is a turning point in history, and there is no going back.
where diamonds turn back to coal.
Even symbols of wealth and value are losing their meaning and significance.
and flesh turns to machine.
Humanity is becoming more technologically advanced, but also more separated from our natural selves.
the landfills will explode.
Our waste and excess is reaching a critical point and will cause catastrophic damage.
all the garbage will turn into a city.
Our urban areas will continue to expand and consume more and more resources.
all the corpses rise from their grave.
Even death cannot stop the changes happening to the world and society.
and bleed back into society.
The past is not gone and forgotten, but rather continues to influence the present and the future.
Contributed by Aria I. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@dennismaloney7241
It's barely the size of a Frigate, who's life expectancy is about seven minutes in a ship to ship battle.
@wissam3641
you never know
@aeonhelendale8777
It's not been sent to fight. It's been sent as a flag to raise the region into a more emotionally embattled state. War is more than guns and death. It's a mentality, a belief, an ideologs gift so to speak. To bring up a higher presence to an ideology that pulls on all in the region. These kind of tactics have been used in, around, and throughout war since books could be written. I'd recommend a few for strategic education.
@johnjohn-gt4eg
it depends on location... it is happening outside planet america
@innocentrichard2945
@@aeonhelendale8777 this has to be the best defination of number i ever encountered
@ultrahd3388
Do you think iran don’t know that ?
@waltuh7234
It's crazy when all these organizations start a fight they can't possibly win, then cry when a real military power hits back.
@pilot3016
Wow! We have Coast Guard Vessels with higher tech weaponry than that. Seriously!
@obxarms7685
Iran has hypersonic Missiles you bozo. this isn't WW2.
@godemperorofmemekind4170
The Middle East really is such a gift to the world isn’t it???