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Breaking down the figurative lyrics of Sing for The Queen.
>Oh mother of ashes spreading the wings of a dusk o resplendent unseen
‘The mother of’ as who possesses the fallowing relation to the artist.
Ashes of grief, humility, and mortality, but also repentance.
Spreading the wings can be a birth or a new beginning.
Dusk as in a day setting or an era ending.
Resplendent is a Latin also used in English as a more powerful synonym for beautiful.
Unseen, most likely means they aren’t currently recognized from what they become.
>Blessed be her majesty
To introduce in good faith, the ruling royalty.
>Praise be the absolute Queen
The title of the ruler.
>Eyes upon the vault of time
Eyes upon the secrets of the past, or the Ark. A time vault is something that is "sealed" from the outside elements.
>Skies shattered in the decline.
Great conflict or a battle. Decline means the possible decline of the receiving force, most likely Humanity and it's tools.
>Cries echoing in the silent haze of day, fading away
The current era of humanity on the surface is ending in a mass extinction event abandoned by the deep state of humanity. A lot of people died within the coming weeks as they weren't chosen or separated.
>Oh mother of ashes tearing the light of a dawn of radiant unseen.
It's tearing the light, as in tears in the rain. The metaphor means the twilight, which is the light after dusk and before the dawn. Radiant is shining brightly or emitting light and heat.
>Sing chorus of vows. The world is astray and fading away.
Nikkes losing their minds, becoming corrupted, or forgetting what is left of the known world with both.
Chorus
>It is lost, it is found, it is her disaster
Most likely the Heretics after she was missing in action.
>All hail to the Queen for she brings ether
Ether as in peaceful tranquility. Diethyl ether or nicknamed “Ether” was an early medical anesthesia. But ether is not in the American pronunciation so it doesn’t mean “both”.
>All hail to the Queen for she will offer salvation, despair and absolution
The ideal royalty.
>From the womb of night, draped in fire
Figurative language phrase meaning of origin in absolute darkness, there is the new inspiration but who is literally fire in the story?
>Unmaking the laws of the sun.
>Carrying away all existence in her gravity
Taking responsibility of everything, like a star holds gravity of planets, the sun holds the world in this song.
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>She pleads agony
She is in great pain or suffering.
>Descend and resound
To call for
>o eternity
forever
>haloed with obscurity
surrounded by the unknown, or forgotten
>O cathedral of the void crowned in lament and fear
A cathedral has a bishop, who serves royalty but reports to the church, but ultimately it's a structure and holy site of the kingdom. Void is in a darkness. Crowned as in “given the honour of” to vocal their current emotions.
>You holy unseen, sing, chorus of vows
Because they are holy to the Queen, therefore already converted as Heretics. It can figuratively mean they are forced to obey a ruler who doesn't see them as worthy.
>The world is astray and fading away.
It could be someone’s reality of what they know while under the disillusionment of the Queen.
>It is lost, it is found, it is her Disaster.
Foreshadowed again. Twice means it’s important.
>All hail to the Queen for she brings ether
>All hail to the Queen for she will offer salvation, despair and absolution
The chorus most likely in the POV of the criticizer, most likely the one singing the Elegy.
>Voices rise as a hymn
The public masses, in this case Raptures that replaced humanity and Heretics all controlled by the Queen.
>Sing, sing, sing for her elegy
The repetition of the same word is as an order to obey. Elegy as pre-historic records is ether in song or poem.
>Oh sing, sing, sing for the Queen
Those commanded by the queen are forced to obey her.
Characters
The Mother of Ashes, the relation of the singer to the Subject, but shouldn't be the Queen because that's not a publicly addressed title for the royal subject.
The Queen, is the Topic or the title of the person of interest.
The Artist. People that do Elegy aren't told anything about the person, only that person had done something to influence their life. Most of the lyrics of the song is most likely related to the Artist's experience with the Queen.
Disclaimer
The annotations are first impressions.
Thoughts on the Lyrics.
This Elegy is almost like a requiem, which can also be something of a remembrance of past persons and history put to rest. There is some strange compromises in the verses and the lyrics, as if there were two Queens or one Queen replacing the other. Why would there be two lines to introduce the Queen twice, one formal and one less formal afterwards?
That means the Queen's body most likely in the event will be combatted again in the Main story with its Solo Raid config like Gluttony, but by then who will control the Queen's previous profile picture?
The opener sounds more like it's about a different person before it's about the Queen herself, but why would that person be a mother? There is only one "mother" known in Nikke in which the Artist can open up to on the surface. But it goes beyond to say this mother is creating a new possibility, as "Dusk" is the position of the sun ending below the horizon. Figuratively the song says the Queen "rewrites the rules of the sun", so the sun represents the power and responsibility to changing the world, as the sun we know determines life. But why would the mother be mentioned first? Well it was mostly when the Artist became aware, but still remember them before they became their mother. "Oh mother" was addressed in surprise or astonishment twice, most likely when the current Queen never expected them to become their mom.
The mother has tears of light, which means the mother cried when the sun set or before the new dawn was seen by the real Queen. Whoever was first found by the Queen, and succeeded her position temporarily, becomes a new daughter to a mother who cared about her story of suffering.
Why would the song continue past the chorus past that point It's most likely the new Queen will be revered as someone more worthy. The final verse of the song has "Voices rise as a hymn" which was placed tactically to determine that if the daughter had to be the Queen, then it would not be of oppression and fear.
Something huge is going to happen, and this song is the prelude to it.