Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: grindcore
Song Meaning of “A Face Podre do Covarde” by Plague Rages
This song is a dark and haunting meditation on cowardice and regret. The narrator laments how easily they have become “a face podre do covarde” – a rotting face of cowardice – and how this has ruined their past. The song reflects on unending regret, a regret that has been allowed to fester and consume the narrator’s life.
The imagery of decay is used to describe how far the narrator has fallen, and to make us feel the weight of the protagonist’s guilt and anguish. They are fully aware of their cowardice and are begging for some kind of redemption, but the song ultimately ends on a sorrowful note with no hope of rescue from the torment. In the end, the narrator is left with nothing but a face full of rot.