This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Faceless fall from this life and ah
If you can't see the stars
You've probably gone too far
Like the voice that cried
On the lonesome tide
Like the wave was
the only love it ever saw
"What's this dying for"?
Asks the Stork that soars
With the Owl high above
Canyons mighty walls
Owl said "Death's a door
That love walks through
In and out, in and out
Back and forth, back and forth"
Turn from the fear
Of the storms that might be
Oh let it free
That caged on fire thing
Oh hold its hands
It'll feel like lightening
Oh in your arms safe
From the storms
Sky bends, the moon's dress's slung low,
slung low.
Dogstar taught a dance
It goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes
Arms out knees bend
The motion flows
Like the soft open petals
Of a Jessica Rose
So Sirius.
So it falls apart
It just reveals the perfect nothing.
Of everything you are
Of everything we are
Candle of life
Lights the blights and bruises
Oh lay it down
In the night
Let it soothe this
Oh hold its hands
And we'll know what truth is
Oh in its arms safe from the storms
If you can't see the stars
You've probably gone too far
Like the voice that cried
On the lonesome tide
Like the wave was
the only love it ever saw
"What's this dying for"?
Asks the Stork that soars
With the Owl high above
Canyons mighty walls
Owl said "Death's a door
That love walks through
In and out, in and out
Back and forth, back and forth"
Turn from the fear
Of the storms that might be
Oh let it free
That caged on fire thing
Oh hold its hands
It'll feel like lightening
Oh in your arms safe
From the storms
Sky bends, the moon's dress's slung low,
slung low.
Dogstar taught a dance
It goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes
Arms out knees bend
The motion flows
Like the soft open petals
Of a Jessica Rose
So Sirius.
So it falls apart
It just reveals the perfect nothing.
Of everything you are
Of everything we are
Candle of life
Lights the blights and bruises
Oh lay it down
In the night
Let it soothe this
Oh hold its hands
And we'll know what truth is
Oh in its arms safe from the storms
Lyrics submitted by fistfuloflove
Stork & Owl Lyrics as written by David Andrew Sitek Babatunde Omogora Adebimpe
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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Great version of a great song,
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I like to think of the song as being about delusion, actually. Seems to be the opposite of what most of you see it as.
The entire first verse works well with that, anyway. Escaping from reality and finding inner love with the illusion, but still remembering that you actually exist here, with "If you can't see the stars, you've probably gone too far", because it's dangerous to completely get lost from 'this' reality. The whole deal with the Stork and Owl is that only one of them is 'real'. There's one exploring this nonexistent world, and the other is their fictional love to bond and learn with. To complete each-other. The third verse could be about them mutually embracing this lie and loving each-other. The fourth verse doesn't seem that it could really mean anything in this particular way of seeing it, but it's the fifth one that made me really start liking it. "So Sirius, so it falls apart". It relates to science, which denies things not of this world. The world "serious" also works in that same sense, because if you think too much into it, you know it's not real and the fun is ruined. The facts of this world have to bring you back to reality and you see that your companion isn't real. Then you realize that even if this is where you are, this 'reality' is no less real or meaningful than the 'reality' where your companion waits. So you become more comfortable with loving this thing and knowing it loves you, too. You can't leave this reality, really, but you can know that that being is there with you, even if they really aren't, and it's a love true as any other.