Wolves by Phosphorescent
I came across this song when I was watching movie Margin Call.
It can be interpreted many ways,
like feelings for someone turned south, a person talking about politicians, a
woman having an intense period etc.
But after listening to this so many times, I can deduce only
one meaning. Wolves are analogous with vices and “house” is analogous with the "mind".
I want to say mind and not body. These wolves or vices tear us apart inside
out. Make holes in the walls, floor and stones of our soul which started out as a beautiful clean entity and
then gets tainted by our weaknesses and mistakes which are nothing but clawing
and attacks of these wolves. Yes we know they are there and they affect us and
we try to “put them out”, but we still keep getting draw to them, like greed,
lust, gluttony. They are strong and sometimes one is more prominent in us than others. Sometimes they seem to be our characteristics and we showboat
with those to the outside world. But they hurt us slowly inside out, gnawing at our inner. They “mate” at night when we are our
most vulnerable. The vices grow inside when our minds are empty, our hands are
not employed in some work, when we have nothing else to do but stare at the
ceiling lying down. We are prisoned and surrounded by them.
We appeal to “mama” who I believe can be thought of in 2
ways. First one is our mother, who is birth giver, our better parent, the most
caring person in the world to us and to the most of us is the most pious “something”
only second to God in our minds and life. Second is nothing but the “good” in
us. The good house which doesn't have wolves but flowers and inner peace. In
both cases, we know someone (mama) or something (inner conscience) knows the better
us, tells us that we are much better than being in a position to be hurt from
the wolves. We know what needs to be done and yet we wait for them to go away
on their own and until they “make nice”…which of course never happens….never because we keep making the same mistakes again and again and again.
