Invisible

Well listen dancing shifter, got a strong cell phone arm. Oh you’re not invisible inside your car. No matter what consuming sort of mission you’re on, well you’re not invisible inside your car. So absolutely mental gonna ramble and charge. No you’re not invisible inside your car, no matter you just breathe it like your flies in a jar. No you’re not invisible. I like the saline tea. Well it’s true that the moon can pull it back and forth away from me. I should just let it be. Well it’s true that the moon can pul l you back and forth away from me. Well it had to happen sometime gonna shake like a charm. Well we weren’t invisible not all along. No matter how many eons came and are gone. We were not invisible. I like the saline tea. Well it’s true that the moon can pull it back and forth away from me. And there’s the orphaned sea, we were never invisible, but that I guess we didn’t see. Of course this all had been laid down way before. We laid down for it all before we had a course, of course, of course this all had been laid down before. Of course we lay down. I like the saline tea. Well it’s true that the moon can pull it back and forth away from me. And like the orphaned sea, we were never invisible but that I guess we could not see. We’ll get crushed by the ocean, but it will not get us wet.

"We'll get crushed by the ocean but it will not get us wet" has been an uncontrollable montra for me all day. On the surface, its obvious meaning is that global warming's effect on the oceans will be catastrophic for the majority of the earth's human population (though the flooded cities' dead will get wet). Maybe it's a testament to our helplessness (the writer's ironic respect for the God he apparently doesn't believe in)?

And for the "orphaned sea"...Man is apparently at the highest evolutionary point in earth's history. Though terrestrial, he's treated the sea worse than the land (trash, human waste, genocidal fishing[though the land's not exactly cared for]).

Given the 10% of the time (1 time out of 10, everything is perfect for us all {Bukowski}) positive attitude of the writer, a reference to the 10% of our population that will survive in the event of every major catastrophy that likely will happen in the next century (natural distasters, famine, energy crises, loss of MAJOR cities due to global warming (New York, Los Angles, all of Florida (surprisingly given it's own song on this album), not even to mention Southeast Asia.

They manage to non-pretentiously make songs about every major concern of humanity, should you subscribe to this interpretation.

Maybe this is the real root of the drug culture's attachment to the writer's lyrics - they are saying things that we don't can't quite contemplate the full meaning of (Stars Are Projectors). If you've ever gotten too loaded on mushrooms (everytime I've even looked at a mushroom) you probably fully understand this.

i like how he refrences flies in a jar here. he always seems to tie one song into another.

i just got the cd and the liner notes list the lyrics as follows:

well listen dancing shifter, got a strong cell phone arm. oh you're not invisible inside your car. no matter what consuming sort of mission you're on, well you're not invisible inside your car.

so absolutely mental gonna ramble and charge no you're not invisible inside your car. no matter, you just breathe it like flies in a jar no you're not invisible.

i like the saline tea. well it's true that the moon can pull it back and forth away from me i should just let it be. well it's true that the moon can pull you back and forth away from me

well it had to happen sometime gonna shake like a charm well we weren't invisible not all along no matter how many eons came and are gone we were not invisible

i like the saline tea well it's true that the moon can it pull back and forth away from me and there's the orphaned sea, we were never invisible but that i guess we didn't see.

of course this all had been laid down way before we laid down for it all before we had a course, of course of course this all had been laid down before of course we lay down

i like the saline tea well it's true that the moon can pull it back and forth away from me and like the orphaned sea, we were never invisible but that i guess we could not see

we'll get crushed by the ocean, but it will not get us wet.

i believe this songs about the end of the human race, the apocalypse. heres why..

the first two verses are just saying, no matter what you do to put it off, you aren't going to escape the end. we're all just flies in a jar.

in the chorus, saline is used to inject patients who can't hydrate themselves by mouth, as you know. so basically he's saying again we're just waiting to die. and the moon goes up and down. daylight comes, and goes. and every day that happens, our lives get shorters, so the moon takes life away from us.

the third verse says that no matter how long we've been around, we're still going to perish as a race.

the last line confuses me. "we'll get crushed by the ocean, but it will not get us wet"

i'd like to think it's about global warming, but it seems deeper than that,

Just wrote them down by what I heard. As usual, if there are any corrections, post them here and I'll make 'em.

Man, this song almost makes WWDBtSES seem like a concept album. Very nautical.

i wasn't even going to attempt to try and figure out this words. shoot. good job.

Hey, thanks. You know, I think I read in some other song's comments (not sure which one) that someone thought it was pointless to try and write down the lyrics when we can't understand them -- that we should just wait until the album comes out to be sure. What do you guys think about that? Personally, if I really like a band, I always write down the lyrics as I listen before looking up they lyrics on a site or in the CD case. There's just something about the action of writing down what you hear instead of reading it, even if you don't fully hear it correctly, that increases your understanding of the song. I don't know. I think if more people did that, we would have a lot less comments on this site saying "this song is about drugs" or "this person is singing about death" and all those other kind of blanketed opinions (that I'll probably regret soon..).

Man, I'm so addicted to this song. I've barely heard half the album and I keep coming back to it.

I'm not sure but I think instead of "sailing teeming" it might be "saline tea" ie the ocean? Good job with the song, though.

I'm quite sure there are many mistakes in these lyrics. Don't know the correct ones yet, but don't put too much stock in what is up here.