r/coheed's Song of the Day #34: The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth

My least favorite part of The Willing Well is an amazing piece of music. It used to be high up in my top music lists, but it's made it's way lower as songs like The Willing Well I and The Crowing made their way up. This song was exciting to hear for the first time because all I remembered from Apollo I was the COME ON BITCH and the chorus, and this song had both in spades. I was driving down that dark highway, still alone, and I tried to sing along, something I rarely do with a song first time. Even more fun was, this being my first Coheed album, I didn't know that the Jesse part and the Blood Red Summer bit were reprises of older songs. My favorite part of the song shone though and I listened to this song a lot. You can imagine my absolute excitement when I finally bought SSTB and checked out Everything Evil around a year later and was treated to something very familiar.

The Fiction- Claudio Sanchez: “This is the full on end, where the Character is coming to the Writer, and the Writer is saying to him ‘You are the one, I am your God’ and, ‘in my presence/you will make sure the fiction meets its fate…all the worlds from here must burn.”

In the graphic novel, during this song, several events occur. Claudio, Jesse, Ambellina and their gang land on House Atlantic after getting through a lapse in the shields, according to Ryan’s plan. Jesse is immediately engaged in a fight with Mayo Deftinwolf, as he had predicted, as Claudio and Ambellina run off to enter combat. Simultaneously, Writer is taken to a guillotine with angel wings and as the blade drops, he realizes he does not die. Instead, for the first time, he is certain about what he has to do. He enters the story through the Willing Well, which is what appears to be a full-length mirror that exists in both worlds. He enters the story by walking into a room in House Atlantic where Claudio and Ambellina are standing, having just killed an Onstantine Priest. Writer attacks Ambellina, and Claudio evokes his Crowing abilities to fight Writer. His attempts are in vain, and Writer has his way. After realizing his powers are useless, Claudio is forced to listen to Writer’s commands. -CobaltandCalcium.com

The Real- This seems to be a very angry, very bitter message to Chondra. Just like Apollo I, but much more... violent, I guess. The deepest of Claudio's anger is here. He's going to kill her character off.

The Part- Man, that Blood Red Summer riff absolutely destroys with the reworked "Jesse" part. The overall best part is the harmonies in the background. JEEEEEESSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

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