Did 'Take Us Back', predict how the second season of The Walking Dead was going to be?
I thought of this theory a few months ago, and God, I'm so exited about this: I think the lyrics of the song 'Take Us Back' performed at the end of Season One of The Walking Dead, predicted how the Season Two was going to be. I thought of this theory one day I realised some lines of the lyrics of the song told events similar to ones that happened in Season Two, but not so similar to the ones in Season One.
Atop the crags and cliffs the air is thin
So we'll find a mountain path on down the hill
Meet me where the snowmelts flows
It is there, my dear, where we'll begin again
Skipping stones, braiding hair
Last years antlers mark the trail
This verse basialy sets the ambientation of the season: The characters are in a cold enviroment, facing dificulties, "Skipping stones". Also, the characters are going to "Beging Again" in this place, in Wellingtone, I believe.
Take us back, Oh! take us back, Oh! take us: Take us back!
Take us back, Oh! take us back, Oh! take us: Take us back!
In my opinion, the characters want to be "Taken Back" to the world they lived before, when you didn't have to worry about assholes or zombies trying to kill you all the time.
I've a friend who lives out by the rivers mouth
He knows the fiddle's cry is an old sound
A lonesome bow, the creaks and moans of empty houses
Are songs like falling rain
Wind blown buildings, muddy ground
The strength of water can sink a man
The cabin group are the "Friends that live out by the rivers mouth". A line of this verse that really interestes me is the one of "The strength of water sinking a man", which is the exact description of Luke's death. But I think it has another meaning, deeper. In another song of Alela Diane, "White as Diamons", she says that "Some hearts are ghosts settling down in dark waters, just as silt grows heavy and drowns with the stones". I think this hearts are the people that has lost all innocence and purity. They are lost causes, unable to feel love or campassion, made to survive and only to survive. This "dark water" that "can sink a man" is the water of pain and loss, that shape people into heartless survival creatures. Also, the first song played in The Walking Dead: Season Two, is 'In The Water', by Anadel. My favourite line of the song is "Against the tide we struggle. To keep our heads above the deep. Our hearts above the lie" They try to survive, but not only to the Walkers, but to the dark waters that sinks men.
Take us back, Oh! take us back, Oh! take us: Take us back!
Take us back, Oh! take us back, Oh! take us: Take us back!When the higher hills have turned to blue
And the waves are lapping where the children grew
All that we have known will be an echo
Of days when love was true
Muted voices, just beyond
The silent surface of what has gone
The waves of the darks waters are lapping the Childer's home. Home is family. The children (Clem and A.J) are being afected and treatened of being drown by these dark waters. "All that we have known will be an echo of days when love was true" This line is art. They are young, they are being raised in this world of dark waters, and all they will know when they grow up will be just a memory of the times when people stuck together for something stronger than survival: love. Muted voices, people die, they always die.
Here's my interpretation os the song Take Us Back, by Alela Diane, and how it predicted the Season Two. If you guys liked it, I could make other threads of the others songs, with my predictions for Season Three, of course.
Comments
Holy shit, woman! You are a genius! How did you even- I don't think it was completely deliberate, but it really is a perfect fit. I AM FANGIRLING OVER HERE
It's extremely unlikely that it was intentional, but I do see a parallel of sorts! The most noticeable part would be the stanza of the friend that live by the river mouth, which resembles the cabin group by the stream, and, as you said, the sinking man could be interpreted as Luke's death.
I really love the songs from TWD credits and one of my favorite things to do is to analyze them. And I must say, you've done a good job here.
Nice work and I feel its a safe bet to be accurate. For many artists music plays a deep role when drawing inspiration to create. The key is what inspired what. What if the game and song only share a real world location as thier inspiration? Many of the points you've made would still be true! I do like your theory and would welcome more!:)
Thanks guys for your support
This seems an accurate assessment. I'm sure a lot of forethought went into choosing the credit songs so they would relate to the games somehow.