3/16/2023 0 Comments Lyrics burn the rope![]() ![]() ![]() He delivers haunting lyrics with a gravelly voice not unlike Wolfman Jack’s, that lends credence to the horrifying tales he sings about. Lead singer, Cragmire Peace has always been an evocative story teller and does not disappoint on “Rope Burn”. The Bloody Jug Band consists of eight members and with names like: Cragmire Peace, Stormy Jean, Brian Shredder, Steevil, Bloody Rick Lane, Seth Funky, Big Daddy Jerm and Baby Dingo, and lyrics that weave tales about serial killers, insanity, and blood thirsty unicorns make no mis-take about it-this isn’t your grandmother’s jug band. Combined with the bands own musical influences ranging from: Tom Waits, Johnny Cash and The Band, the end result is a sound that has been labeled as Roots rock meets Florida Swamp Noir, with a heavy dose of southern gospel and outlaw biker rock. With 13 new tracks drawing influences from the dark, dirty south of the 20’s and 30’s, each track was created using traditional jug band instruments including: washboards, mandolin, harmonica and a washtub bass. The Grinning Colossus is, in fact, merely an illusion created by the rope to give you a motive to burn the rope.The Bloody Jug Band, who hail from Orlando, Florida, have been making music for over six (6) years and have pretty much carved out their own lane as far as jug bands go, and continue to do so with their new album, “Rope Burn” which dropped on April 13th. The only death that can ensure the rope's complete and utter destruction is burning, so it creates a situation in which You Have to Burn the Rope and gives you instructions to that effect. It is so desperate that it does not care that the chandelier will die as well indeed, the rope will be happy to have its friend join it in the afterlife. Even if it were to perform a Heroic Sacrifice, it would be far more likely to try and develop a plan that minimize the damage done to the rope (eg, You Have To Untie the Rope).The only possible explanation is this: The rope, tired of being constantly stretched taut, is committing Suicide by Cop. The chandelier, however, is attatched to the rope, indicating a strong friendship between the two. This leaves our speakers as the rope or the chandelier. The Grinning Colossus would have no need of such vocalization, as his grin clearly indicates that he has a mouth of his own. How many items are really in that area? Who could have told you that You Have to Burn the Rope? Now, the instructions appear on the screen without text boxes, which generally indicates a telepathic or omnipresent voice. The rope wants to get burned.Think about it. This theory is made of win! I heartlily salute the troper who proposed it.Most forms of sexuality are symbolized as bad (straight with the main character and the rope, gay with the rope/chandelier and the Grinning Colossus, lesbian with the main character and the symbolic tunnel/room shape, the rope and chandelier look exactly like a really oddly-shaped woman with dozens of limbs that dies while in a bondage situation, and polygamy, as represented by the relation of all the previously mentioned factors), and the very shape of the final dungeon and the long corridor leading to it seems to say "if you go down this path, bad things will happen." The eye-beams are a metaphor for the risk of pregnancy, the collision damage symbolizes how consentual sex has the same potential consequences as rape, and the final battle is reminiscent of conception (a sperm traveling into the womb and attacking an egg) and abortion/contraception (a little pink pill-shaped being goes into same womb and attacks the life inside). You defeat it by using the pink thing to transfer fire, a metaphor for STDs, to the thinner (and possibly shorter) pale-colored rope, which drops an entire chandelier of fire and wax onto the Grinning Colossus, destroying it. You Have to Burn the Rope is a treatise against sexuality, or at least polygamy.The Grinning Colossus, as the final boss, is a huge black phallic symbol. ![]()
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