Before I begin I just want to say that I'm under no illusion that any of these findings are my own, merely that I'm attempting to combine said findings together into single coherent piece. More importantly I feel that there's never been a detailed analysis on the time-line of the themes Kojima's been implementing and how this song teases them further. I feel that if more people understood this time-line of ideas and themes the more they'll be convinced the ruse could be real.
Context.
Months before the third Death Stranding trailer a song by title of Silent Hills found its way into existence on October 2017 leading up to Halloween. The song was by ex tATu band member Lena Katina a singer who was born in the year 1984 in Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia also happening to be the place Kojima's character The Sorrow (Whom of which shares a suspiciously similar leaking left tear) was born. Now Silent Hills released with two alternative covers. The world wide release which had Lena depicted in a black n' white photo as a widow with a red: 'X' on her lips whereas the Russian release whilst also still depicting Katina in black n' white photo as a widow this time had a red: 'X' over her right eye and a blue drip over to her left. On top of this the title of Silent Hills itself used a similar variation of the same font on the word: 'SILENT' Hideo Kojima used for Silent Hills according to the end of P.T. and the: 'Concept Trailer.' Lyrically the song seemed to be in the form of very simple words and phrases. Sorta like a nursery rhyme. In fact one of the lyrics in the song even references a nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty. More curiously though is that the song was about relationship, commitments, dreams/existentialism, space elements and murder...
Symbolism.
Asides from Lena Katina being depicted specifically as a widow on the cover. The Russian cover with the red: 'X' over her right eye and blue drip over the left seem to be not only just referencing P.T. with Lisa's eye being gouged out, but also Death Stranding. Now the second trailer of Death Stranding before Silent Hills came out many months later specifically showed Mads Mikkelsen's character with a leaking black tear over the left hand side of his eye. Taking into account also that Time-Fall rain fell specifically on Sam's wife's right eye on the photo Sam dropped.
Furthermore, this character also did a gesture where he'd put his finger to his lips. The world-wide release of Silent Hills had Lena Kati
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