仮にここで主人公があっさり「母の家の屋根の上には，死神が訪れている，止めようと思っても，やり方がわからない，母の家の屋根の上に，死神が訪れている，いつかは俺のところにもあいつらがやって来る」といっていたらどれほどつまらないか考えてみてください。
This song taught me the power of metaphors. For example, in verse 3, we find a word 'birds.' Although the narrator doesn't mention their species, we somehow know the birds represent 'death' and therefore they're ravens. Just imagine how this part would be boring if he plainly said "Death is on the roof of my mother's house, I've nothing to prevent it, Death is on the roof of my mother's house, Will sit on my roof some day" instead.
Lazarus Heart (Sting)
[Verse 1]
He looked beneath his shirt today
There was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside
He turned around to face his mother
To show her the wound in his breast that burned like a brand
But the sword that cut him open
Was the sword in his mother's hand
[Chorus]
Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
[Verse 2]
Though the sword was his protection
The wound itself would give him power
The power to remake himself at the time of his darkest hour
She said the wound would give him courage and pain
The kind of pain that you can't hide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Birds on the roof of my mother's house
I've no stones that chase them away
Birds on the roof of my mother's house
Will sit on my roof some day
They fly at the window, they fly at the door
Where does she get the strength to fight them anymore
She counts all her children as a shield against the pain
Lifts her eyes to the sky like a flower in the rain
[Chorus]
[Verse 1]
今日あいつが着ているシャツの中をちょっと覗いてみたら
すごく深くて大きな傷が体の上に出来ていて
一本の可憐な花がその傷から咲いていた
体のどこか内側の奥のとこから生えていた
それであいつは振り返り母親の方を見て
焼印を押されたようにヒリヒリと痛んでる胸の傷を見せたけど
その傷をつけた刀は母親が手に持っていた
[Verse 2]
[Verse 3]
[Chorus]
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