In twilight's blue
You don't find your way
The way finds you Queens of the Stone Age – Someone’s in the Wolf
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A reference to the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf’s gentle smile hides his “teeth”, a euphemism for his cruel predatory nature. In the story, Little Red notes that the wolf posing as her grandmother ‘what big teeth you have’. The wolf then soon eats her.
The wolf can be interpreted as a male lover or sexual predator, and eating her can be a sexual reference to giving a woman oral sex.
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The ships are the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia.
#Battle of Hampton Roads
They first met on the March 9, 1862, marking the first time in history that two ironclad warships engaged each other in battle.
On the first day of the battle, the CSS Virginia had decimated wooden union ships due to its superior armour. That did not last; the following day, it met the USS Monitor.
The resulting battle led to both ships withdrawing from battle, yet both claimed victory.
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Acid + Ambien = Some seriously good times
Ambien is said to lead to some brilliant sex 10-15 min after taking it.Just ask Tiger Woods
Also, taking the song’s disassociative/hallucinatory themes into account, the main reason he would mention Ambien is that if you take enough (and fight the sleep-inducing effects) it will eventually make you trip.
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Ant got those “Triple Beam Dreams”, but he ain’t selling drugs, he’s a user.
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Vinum Sabbathi/Sabbati translates to Witches' Wine or Wine of the Sabbath.
Most Likely a reference to The Novel of the White powder by Arthur Machen.
Men and women, seduced from their homes on specious pretences, were met by beings well qualified to assume, as they did assume, the part of devils, and taken by their guides to some desolate and lonely place, known to the initiate by long tradition, and unknown to all else. Perhaps it was a cave in some bare and windswept hill, perhaps some inmost recess of a great forest, and there the Sabbath was held. There, in the blackest hour of night, the Vinum Sabbati was prepared, and this evil gruel was poured forth and offered to the neophytes, and they partook of an infernal sacrament; sumentes calicem principis inferorum, as an old author well expresses it. And suddenly, each one that had drunk found himself attended by a companion, a share of glamour and unearthly allurement, beckoning him apart, to share in joys more exquisite, more piercing than the thrill of any dream, to the consummation of the marriage of the Sabbath.
It induces a dreamlike trance, almost like a drug trip.
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2D has severe cetaphobia (fear of whales), the manatee is there as a guard or just to mess with him.
Additionally, the Manatee’s name could be Hugh. Think about it…. Hugh Manatee… Humanity? In a sense aren’t we all kinda sitting up on melancholy hill? The dude seems to be asleep, drugged, comatose or something. Most of us could say we’re stuck in a net of other people’s expectations, not knowing who we really are.
The manatee could also be a reference to what is actually happening as a result of pollution: the extinction of aquatic species. Manatees are an endangered species. In the video, the manatee seems like it is dying and could very well be seen as the last manatee. Shortly after, the Boogyman drags it into the ocean, still covered in plastic and fishing nets which would likely kill it, possibly meaning the end of a species. Not to mention, Murdoc tells Cyborg Noodle to shoot at the Boogyman, likely to stop it from attacking the manatee.
Manatee’s in symbolism are used to represent gentleness, calmness, and non-violence (peace). The boogieman, being called ‘the essence of everything bad in the world’, is stealing it away from plastic beach. He is essentially getting rid of all peace and calm from it. The manatee is also crying, possibly for loss of peace and calm where it sits.
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I think that the Boogieman was using a manatee to intimidate 2-D since he is afraid of huge fish.
Since it’s there as a guard, and it’s on the melancholy hill, it could mean that there it would be safe, artificial, plastic, but a life with only desire and sadness is not worth living hence the going away.
When it comes to the order of music videos I don’t think the whale incident happened yet… and manatees aren’t the same as whales.
However,
If you take the lyrics literally and think of the video at the same time… the manatee I think is being used by the Boogie man to watch out for Noodle. In the video, Murdoc, 2D and the rest of the people who show up on the album set off to look for Noodle. They find the Boogieman using the manatee on the hill to do the same thing.
Up on the hill there is a manatee looking out for the day that she’s close to him…
At the end of the video, the manatee sorta becomes the Boogieman’s submarine like Stylo became Murdoc, 2D, and Cyborg Noodle’s submarine. The manatee is more of a device to look for Noodle.
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In the video you can see that the manatee looks defeated and that it doesn’t care. The creature tries to take it away and this could possibly refer to the dark thoughts inside of 2D trying to coax him to give up. I feel that the manatee represents his emotions.
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In addition to what jon tucker said (very well said btw), this net could be the plastic world of plastic trees and fake personalities.
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To be “melancholy” is to be pensively sad without a specific reason. More often than not, melancholy comes out of nowhere. All of a sudden, you find yourself not in the moment, but somewhere up above, isolated and watching. By nature, manatees are passive creatures, so it could be that this manatee represents the singer, shape-shifting into a creature that is passive about the world around it–not knowing whether he is in real life or a dream. I don’t think it’s a negative thing to be “melancholy.”
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Yes Hugh is probably the name. But he is dead, the story is that the boogeyman that is following Murdoc killed the manatee.