#evidence of more lore to come?

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dusty agate
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Before I start I want to clarify that I’m not necessarily saying that I believe with certainty that we’re getting more music/lore soon, but the evidence I’ve collected is ever so slowly convincing me otherwise.

Do you find it strange that they lowkey just kinda told us what was gonna happen in the City Walls music video well before it ever came out? The bishop robe from the FPE event that one time that was moved and had the letter pinned to it with big red words reading “DEAR CLANCY”, the shirts towards the end of the Clancy World Tour that listed the bishops names and then ended with Clancy, the letters at the end of the CWT between Torchbearer and Clancy seemingly taking place AFTER the events of the City Walls music video judging based on how Torch says that “We destroyed them so that we didn’t become them.” and how Clancy says: “The crown is heavy, but I can carry it. This city needs hope, and I alone can give it to them. But the city needs to feel powerful again, and snap out of the lifeless obedience they’ve been trapped in. I can give it to them. I gave them hope. I will be their example of absolute power. I feel alive again.” Why would they just spell out the end of a story told over years and years that blatantly?

What sent me down this theorizing rabbit-hole in the first place was Tyler’s shirt from the March Madness performance recently. The one taken from the CWT and altered to feature an ink blot thingy, and how it appeared exclusively during Tear In My Heart. We never saw any of these shirts after the CWT ended, and supposedly there’d be no point for them to come back as there seemingly is nothing to be cryptically pointing to anymore, so why in the world did he wear that shirt? It really feels like they want us to reevaluate what we’ve been given. I can’t imagine why he would be wearing this shirt if there wasn’t anything left to find.

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Now let's talk about something I realized last night. There are three hidden unreleased songs’ lyrics in the Clancy Digital Remains, Drag Path, Graffiti, and Silver Weighted Sun (to be fair Silver Weighted Sun could just be an early version of songs we did get, but the lyrics in it feel like something else entirely, we’ll get to it.) The realization I had was that each one of these songs are DIRECTLY referenced in the lyrics of City Walls:

Drag Path - “A drag path etched in the surface”
City Walls - “War path etched in the surface”

Graffiti - “... Promises in pen…Use mistakes..” (graffiti’s lyrics are hard to read)
City Walls - “I write a promise in pencil but my loyalty’s in pen, use a mistake as a crooked stencil”

Silver Weighted Sun - “Left right, left right, then side-swiped.”
City Walls - “I can take your right, throw a left” and “Was this a side-swipe or did you picture this in a dream?”

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To me the most interesting one here is Graffiti. Why would Tyler take that random line from an unreleased song about something else entirely and put it in City Walls? Why include the lyrics in the Digital Remains in the first place? We ended up actually getting Drag Path (which directly talks about leaving evidence to be found) so maybe these other songs will actually see the light of day, why else would they be referenced in City Walls.

Let’s shift attention to Silver Weighted Sun now, more specifically this part of the song: “Calling allegiances over the grievances of a tampered witness
In the absence of the sun
Breaking alliances
Over the silences from ignited torches
When the battle had begun”

Lets go line by line here because there is a lot to chew on.

“Calling allegiances over the grievances of a tampered witness” I’ve been thinking about this line ever since I went down this rabbit-hole and I think I finally understand what's being said here. “Calling allegiances” is Clancy calling for the citizens of dema to shift their loyalty to the former regime to him and his power, “over the grievances of a tampered witness” the grievances in this case refer to the corruption of Dema that fuels Clancy’s rebellion and “tampered witness” I believe refers to Clancy’s tampered perspective on how he should carry out the rebellion, it was “tampered with” after he gained the power of the antlers and realized he could literally kill all of the bishops and take over Dema himself, when he originally intended to dismantle the whole system and/or just leave the city. “In the absence of the sun” Clancy made the decision to become the lead bishop before Torchbearer could get to him, “Breaking alliances over the silences from ignited torches, when the battle had begun” I believe this is specifically referring to how Clancy lacked support from Torch and the Banditos in his clash with Nico until it was too late.

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This section of Silver Weighted Sun to me seemingly describes the events of City Walls after they've happened, because of the whole breaking alliances part, the alliance didn’t break fully until Clancy offered Torch the robe, to which he declined. This all definitely could just be early City Walls lyrics, but they’re just so different that I feel more compelled to believe they’re separate. It feels like it lines up with Torch and Clancy's letters to each other at the end of the CWT as mentioned previously. I could totally see it being a song that picks up after City Walls, maybe even being the full version of the “torchbearer’s theme” as that's what plays after the song ends in the City Walls video.

But wait, despite all of that City Walls WAS the ending, right? In a way it really was but also may not have been entirely the end. The story was about the cycle, and in City Walls we see the cycle repeat. This was kinda the whole point of the story, to depict the cycle of mental health/life struggles and through that send the message of always trying again and learning from your past mistakes. Regardless, that still leaves more story to be told as the cycle has not yet ended. The end is the death of Clancy. It’s never really over until you die because life is all about trying again and learning and growing, struggles never really go away. So while City Walls was in a way the ending, I think we could potentially see an epilogue depicting the end of the cycle itself.

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Going back to the shirts, now that Tyler’s worn that new shirt at the last show I think it's time we talk more on Seldom Surface, No Kin, Do You Feel At Home, and Is This Really You. What in the world are those even supposed to mean? I know about the idea that they’re a sort of inner monologue Clancy’s going through but it just doesn’t make sense to me. I’d subscribe to that theory if all four of them were phrased like the last two but the first two sound wayy too much like song titles for me to buy into that theory. I genuinely believe these serve a bigger purpose, potentially song titles for a sort of true ending EP.

Just some food for thought.

celest knoll
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Cooked so hard ngl

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I very like this

lime smelt
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there's also a large chunk of scrapped lyrics on the RITN page of CDR that are very interesting to me

you should try to fight the vignette

There's no other way, there's still fight in you yet

Floor shifts out(ward), from the center of the room

Slides beneath the wall, things are falling to their doom

Spirits, hopes, and energies are sucked into the floor

I'm trapped against the wall that stands opposite the door

Then a black vine, comes out the outlet by my leg

Keeping me in place, no matter how much I would beg

So I reach out, no more logic, no more facts Til/then the light switched on, come to, snap back

dusty agate
lime smelt
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there's enough weirdness still going on around the city walls ending/the band + their team being sus that im not fully convinced they're finished with the story heeheegiggle

dusty agate
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evidence of more lore to come?

maiden citrus