Oh, Sleeper - The Family Ruin
This song is off Oh,Sleeper’s album titled, “Children of Fire”. What you have to be careful about is taking this bands songs out of context. Each song is a chapter in their “theme” - like they are telling a story. The albums theme is following a Father, who is a priest, and then his atheist daughter. It follows them in a time where people think God and Satan have long since disappeared (perhaps this day and age?) and it follows them in their journey in this world and their search for truth. The daughter was raped, and we find that out in a song earlier on the album, and the father murders the man who raped her. In this song the daughter murders her father for the crimes he committed (thinking in her mind she had every right to do so), but in the end discovers grace and finds God. In this song the clean vocals and screams portray different characters, and is a great example of storytelling lyrics and emotion in this music. Enjoy.
