r/coheed's Song of the Day #35: The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut

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Anyways, The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut is fairly unique in the coheed discography, with one verse, one chorus, and one long ass solo. On the Brink is similar, but that's for another day. This song has incredible instrumentation, with the guitars dueling each other to create a badness hard rock/ bluesy jive that makes love to the eardrums. And the way the Always & Never background comes back in as the solo fades out, letting the keyboards take over is fucking gorgeous. I don't really like the kid vocals, but having them come back in brings a feeling of completion and closure to the album. It feels full; like everything that should've been there, was.

The Fiction - Claudio Sanchez: “The Writer gets brought to this guillotine with wings, and at the guillotine is his love, Erica Court. And the blade comes down on the character, but he doesn’t die- he realizes what he has to do.” (Note: the events in the Final Cut happen just before the events in the telling truth in the graphic novel.)

As the note explains, these events took place just before, and during Apollo II in the graphic novel. As for its place on the album, it is a different set of emotions that Writer experiences that don’t fit into the previous song; it is a closure to his open ended grief. Finally a type of revenge. It should be noted that Claudio S. has said the child’s voice in both songs Always and Never, and The Final Cut, are of no real significance. -CobaltandCalcium.com

The Real- The Willing Well to me as a whole is Claudio letting out his most intense emotions and allowing them to flow from his mind. I highly doubt he would actually want to crush Chondra's face in the door, or that she called him a joke and a bastard. He is struggling with his feelings, calling her a selfish little whore, wait, no actually he's the selfish one. He feels so many complicated emotions, this song is the result.

The Part- Towards the end of the solo when the keyboards tale precedent over the rest of the music. Its so fallen with emotion and is a pretty, somber note to end an album on. I eat shit like that up. Hard.