As you can see, this project is all about my yaelokre theories! So let’s jump right in, shall we? (Please do not judge anything I write. I wrote this at 8 AM and I do not function well in the mornings.) Let’s start with Hartebeest. I believe that Hartebeest is about the singer’s original connection to nature. In this, we’re going to call the singer Hare. Maybe he’s telling a story about his past before the other person came along. I don’t have many theories about this one. On to Harpy Hare! This one is pretty easy. It’s about an overprotective mother (Harpy). And of course the singer is Hare. I know it implies that Harpy Hare is one person, but they aren’t. You’ll see why later. The next song I am going to talk about is And The Hound. From what I can tell, this is the only song with a third-person narrator. It’s about, again, the speaker’s connection to nature, but this one is more animalistic. Maybe he runs away from his overprotective mother and somehow gets caught up in a pack of coyotes or wolves or something? I mean, that’s what I can gather from the song. Maybe he has trauma from “the hounds” back before Harpy came along, which is why they were so willing to stay with them. Neath The Grove Is A Heart is the one I have the most theories for. I think this one is truly about when Hare runs away from their mother. Hare comes across a group of adventures who likes to tell stories, mostly stories like “Neath The Grove Is A Heart.” Hare asks them how the adventures can survive “when the roof is everchanging.” The adventures reassure them and tell him that them will soon forget his mother. Soon Hare starts missing their home. The adventures tell him that this is his home now, and there is no escape. He reluctantly agrees, and starts to repeat the story, “Neath The Grove Is A Heart.” This would make more sense if I could animate it. Now, we’re going to talk about Songs Of Origin. I’m going to automatically assume that these are origin stories for other characters other than Hare. We’re going to start with “my farewells to the fields”. It says, “Find me beneath the grove,” so I assume that this is the origin story to “Neath The Grove Is A Heart.” I assume that this is a story of a person(ish?) that used to live peacefully on the land “where the yarrow grows.” After the fighting and drama started, the narrator went into hiding beneath the grove and stopped talking. But every night, the narrator hums a tune. This is how the story “Neath The Grove Is A Heart” started. The final song is “bird cage blue and yellow.” This one is hard to piece together. I think it’s the origin story of one of the adventures. It gives a vibe of somebody with a mental disorder, disability, or illness. Someone who thinks much differently than everyone else. They end up being placed in a mental health hospital because of this, with their only refuge being the flowers and other minor details around the hospital room that they can focus on. Eventually they escape to nature and join the adventurers, forgetting all about their past. The lyrics from the other language translate to “There was water ‘neath the precipice It beckoned nothing but the sky Seemingly empty and undisturbed I found you as you found I.” This only supports my theory that the narrator eventually found the adventurers.
Correct me if I’m wrong, I got all of this information just from listening to the songs.
