This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Whose song is that remembered
At random serpentine
Through phatic coils emerging
Some other thought it's thinking
This light sounds above the houses on the ground
This illumination visited upon the whole land
Unmarked helicopters, hovering
The lord is coming soon
Here comes the super-copter
here comes the noise it makes
The demon was an idea
The demon is awake
The scratch mark left across the surface of your mind
This hour now upon us
The hour has now arrived
Unmarked helicopters, hovering
The lord is coming soon
Unmarked helicopters, hovering
They said it was a weather balloon
I know truth
I know the whole shebang
I know the names of men they had to hang
I let her out of the trunk
I heard what she said at them
They've come to drag her through the double-M
It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
Unmarked helicopters, hovering
The lord is coming soon
Unmarked helicopters, hovering
They said it was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
At random serpentine
Through phatic coils emerging
Some other thought it's thinking
This light sounds above the houses on the ground
This illumination visited upon the whole land
Unmarked helicopters, hovering
The lord is coming soon
Here comes the super-copter
here comes the noise it makes
The demon was an idea
The demon is awake
The scratch mark left across the surface of your mind
This hour now upon us
The hour has now arrived
Unmarked helicopters, hovering
The lord is coming soon
Unmarked helicopters, hovering
They said it was a weather balloon
I know truth
I know the whole shebang
I know the names of men they had to hang
I let her out of the trunk
I heard what she said at them
They've come to drag her through the double-M
It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
Unmarked helicopters, hovering
The lord is coming soon
Unmarked helicopters, hovering
They said it was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
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this song kicks ass its has to be about an fbi cover up of the new mexico happnings
it was written for the x-files. chris carter sent the band some episodes because he wanted them for the soundtrack. they loved the show, agreed, and wrote this song.
yeah, this is about what happened in Roswell New Mexico, "they said it was a weather balloon" the "official" report was that it was a weather balloon
This song and "16 Horses" from the other X-Files CD are how I got into Soul Coughing. Both are excellent tunes. I then proceeded to get their three albums in reverse order.
Also, the "balloon" bit refers to the Mantell UFO incident, where an Air National Guard P-51 pilot named Mantell was killed while pursuing an unidentified flying object in Kentucky (you can look it up on Wikipedia). One of the theories is that the Navy had released some skyhook weather balloons, which were secret at the time (1948), and which conformed to the description given of the UFO by different involved parties. But then some conspiracy theorists say that when Mantell's body was found, he had weird holes all over his body, or that other circumstances suggested an alien encounter.
I want to know what the "drag us through the double M" thing is all about. I'm sure it has something to do with being abducted.
Great song! It's the first Soul Coughing song I ever heard, and I was hooked right away.
This song captures the spirit of the X-Files perfectly. Loaded with 300% of your RDA of conspiritorial wackiness.
@NorthWriter: The "drag us through the double M" thing is (I'm pretty sure) a reference to the year 2000 (M=1000 in roman numerals), and all the paranoia and awesome religious and secular weirdness that was associated with the last year of the 20th century and 2nd millenium, Anno Domini.
Doughty recently said he wrote this song for X-Files without ever watching an episode. He then started to watch it after the fact.