I'll preface this by saying ultimately it's not 100% this information :
( I may explain this in a tarantino sort of sequence but i think it may help the end result...)
The intial inspiration for the name was from a song:
Lazarus was a man who in the bible is raised from the dead. The name has since been used to not directly describe the man himself in all accounts but the concept of being raised from the dead. (many biblical characters have acheived this status;
for example: "a judas", the man who betrayed christ, is used to describe people who are back-stabbers."a doubting thomas" is used to describe someone who doesnt have faith or trust.
wikipedia has some info about the word. It explains it in much detail
The title "The Lazarus Heart" was discovered by me in a Sting song by the same name. The style of this songs draws no parallel to the band in any way as you would find out if you listened to it, but the lyrics spawned the art concept.
here are the lryics:
"The Lazarus Heart"
copyright 1987 Sting
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
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
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
Every day another miracle
Only death will keep us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
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 someday
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 rain
Lifts her eyes to the sky like a flower to the rain
Every day another miracle
Only death will keep us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
On his site he goes into how he came up with the song.
Ok.....
so here is where is all comes together....i hope
Conceptually to me the imagery created by this has really been powerful for me this past year.The ideas of rebirth and having new life breathed into dead things. I've been through a lot of "soul-searching" and "coming-to-grips-with" with regards to the demise of a band that was my baby...some friendships on the rocks...you know that whole re-evaluate your life stuff. interestingly, both Drew and Erin, have also sort of experienced a parralleling experience; for the three of us it has been aproximately a year's time since our respective bands met their demise. so the name is for me quite fitting for its members personally; a new musical life begining. The name also makes me think about how our hearts(emotionally) are constantly going through a death and rebirth process. We have to constantly go back to square one, go back to the source. There is just a lot of power in this concept for me...
also I think it sounds pretty sweet.
If you made it all the way to here, well thank you. I'm glad you are joining us in this journey, this experiment
-Tulley
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