So states of unsatisfaction, objects which deceive or which reveal an absence, are the only forms through which the individual recovers his deceptive uniqueness. The city might fix it or establish it, but isolated existence alone has the chance to do what the city must and can do, without the power to do it. It is all very well for Sartre to say of Baudelaire: 'his dearest wish was to be like the stone, the statue, in the repose of immutability.' He can represent the poet as eager to extract some petrifiable image from the mists of the past, but the images which he left participated in a life which was open, infinite in Baudelaire's sense of the word, [here becoming indistinct] that is to say, unsatisfied. It is therefore misleading to maintain that Baudelaire wanted the impossible statue or that he could not exist, unless we immediately add that he wanted the impossible far more than he wanted the statue. ....

[A time to ease your solace, a time to be so small]

We saw you from the urchin's side,
from under the boat
We saw you making knots,
we saw you get the rope
The boy appearing on the deck, you're making it lurch
The bubble of your interest's ready to burst, burst

He whistles and he runs

[Oooooooh]
[Ooooooooooh]
[Ooooooh]

We saw you in distraction:
a sleeping slow despair
Rehearsing interaction, he wasn't even there
A creature is a creature,
though you wish you were the wind
The boat will not stop moving
if you tie him up until the end

He whistles and he runs so hold him fast
Breathe the burn, he wants to let it last
He might succumb to what you haven't been
He has a keen eye for what you didn't see

When the cadaverous mob saves their doors for the dead men
You cannot leave
When the cadaverous mob saves its doors for the dead men
You cannot leave

Ahhhhhhh

[Fancy summer's stall, a time to be so small]
[To the urchin, see our mirrored time for all]
[A summerside way of life, a time to be so small]
[Stronger by the urchin's side, a time to be so small]

[The urchin will lurch in there for this]
[The urchin will lurch in there for the facts]
[The urchin will lurch in there for the facts]
[The urchin will lurch in there for the facts]

Cadaverous mob saves their doors for the dead men
You cannot leave
When the cadaverous mob saves its doors for the dead men
You cannot leave

[Lurching, lurching, searching, lurching]
[The urchin will lurch in there for the facts]
[The urchin will lurch in]

[It's all in the faded past]
[The bottom of the unwind]
[It's the end of the this]
[The bottom of the unwind]


Lyrics submitted by Interpolnyc, edited by sonofmyrighthand

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    I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS!

    okay. so here-

    "We saw you from the urchin's side from under the boat We saw you making knots we saw you get the rope The boy appearing on the deck and making it lurch And the bubble of your interest ready to burst He whistles and he runs"

    This part displays a girl very simply doing something destructive towards herself and a boy she knows is worried.

    "We saw you in distraction a sleeping, slow dispair Rehearsing interaction he wasn't even there A creature is a creature though you wish you were the wind The boat will not stop moving if you tie him up until the end"

    That whole paragraph basically explains how the girl doesn't want the boy to worry and no matter if the boy is there or not, she will still do what ever self destructive thing she was doing.

    "He whistles and he runs so hold him fast He might succumb to what you haven't seen He has a keen eye for what you used to be"

    I think this means that the boy is going to go tell someone that the girl is doing this to herself... and the last line is stating that he knows what she was like before. he knows that she was better than this or something along those lines.

    the last paragraph i have no idea. honestly, this is one of the most cryptic songs i've ever seen.

    taviiiiion December 27, 2006   Link

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