After signing with Resist Records, the band released the Don't Close Your Eyes EP in 2004 and opened for Shadows Fall, Chimaira, Hatebreed and Alexisonfire on subsequent Australian tours. The I Killed the Prom Queen / Parkway Drive: Split CD was released June 2003 and both groups toured Australia over the rest of the year.
The group played their first show at the Byron Bay Youth Centre where I Killed the Prom Queen vocalist Michael Crafter, visiting from Adelaide, also first saw the group and gained their interest. The 2009 documentary 'Parkway Drive: The DVD' explains that there was a lack of venues for punk rock and hardcore punk bands to practice and perform and that 'Parkway House' was like 'a little oasis for us and all our friends'. The band took their name from the street where their home rehearsal space and live venue, 'The Parkway House', was located.
And then more interpretations are available.Parkway Drive were formed at the beginning of 2003. Who has similar eyes to this new woman, or that this new woman has had a similar heartbreak and is struggling to approach him as well. Alternatively there is the way other people have interpreted it where he is struggling to approach someone he has just met because he is getting over the heartbreak of his previous partner. The lyrics are written ambiguously enough to interpret in at least two distinctive ways. Or alternatively that he has a broken heart and hes waiting to die to join her. This is acknowledging she is someone he loved and suggesting that he promised to literally return to her whilst she was alive but he didn't get chance to, which may be why he has regrets. 'Shining eyes' suggesting she is either crying or she shines like someone pure. This is a reference to his belief that the eyes he remembers are a true vision of her dead self looking at him and that he will see her again when he dies. This refers to how life is now hollow for the two people and that they have lost direction and feel like they are 'falling' in life and will be until they die.
#PARKWAY DRIVE CARRION CRACKED#
hes cracked again and is grieving more heavily. Then he continues to say hes 'broken again' ie. seems like a reference to there being two people grieving together.Īdditionally is written ambiguously because it doesn't follow on from the previous line, this is so that you can also interpret it as 'her heart.' being an unfinished thought suggesting that she had a good heart and it is causing him to suffer more. Hes suggesting on the third line that hes broken her heart and he regrets it, reinforced by the mention of regret at the end of the verse. This speaks about how he becomes breathless when he remembers her and he is looking for strength. [Give me the strength to return, return the breath you've stolen This is an ambiguous reference to the fact it is a dead persons eyes hes speaking about, but also that hes staring into the eyes of someone in the room who is also grieving over the same person at the same time, and they silently wonder if they will ever get over the death because they keep grieving again and again. The final time that we see this through?] 'Carrion' is a play on words where hes telling himself to carry on but also a reference to the decaying memory of this woman.
I think the song is about a woman he knew who has died, all these references to 'her eyes' is his memory of this dead persons eyes coming into his mind and every time it happens it takes him away and hes lost in sad memories. I might be damn wrong about this, but this is just my humble opinion. IMO this song is about him trying to resist some girl he's with or been with.Įverytime he meets her or is with this girl, she makes him feel like a lump of lifeless meat, trying to resist her but fails at resisting her hoping this time he will do what he wants to do so it'll finally be all over between them, tell her how he feels about their relationship, that it aint gonna work cuz they have nothing but bad memories to look back at, and he is feeling bad about causing her emotional pain several times and wanting to take her pain away But they keep on trying to make it work although they never get to that point. Give me the strength to return, return the breath you've stolen