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All night
All I hear
All I hear's your heart
How come
How come
I twisted you over
And under to take you
The coals went so wild
As they swallowed the rest
I twisted you under
And under to break you
I just couldn't breathe
With your throne on my chest
All night
All I hear
All I hear's your heart
How come
How come
So far under the bed
Into the beams you've gone
I've gone
You've gone
I'm wrapped in the depths
Of these deeds that have made me
I can't bring a sound
From my head though I try
I can't seem to find
My way up from the basement
A demon holds my place
On earth 'til I die
All night
All I hear
All I hear's your heart
How come
How come
So far under the bed
Into the beams you've gone
I've gone
You've gone
All night
All I hear
All I hear
All I hear's your heart
All I hear
All I hear's your heart
How come
How come
I twisted you over
And under to take you
The coals went so wild
As they swallowed the rest
I twisted you under
And under to break you
I just couldn't breathe
With your throne on my chest
All night
All I hear
All I hear's your heart
How come
How come
So far under the bed
Into the beams you've gone
I've gone
You've gone
I'm wrapped in the depths
Of these deeds that have made me
I can't bring a sound
From my head though I try
I can't seem to find
My way up from the basement
A demon holds my place
On earth 'til I die
All night
All I hear
All I hear's your heart
How come
How come
So far under the bed
Into the beams you've gone
I've gone
You've gone
All night
All I hear
All I hear
All I hear's your heart
Lyrics submitted by ecila, edited by smallwonderrobot
Furnace Room Lullaby Lyrics as written by Travis Good Neko Case
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This song is about committing enormities. The first stanza is about twisting and breaking someone; perhaps she means emotionally, but it brings to mind a picture of someone burning the body of a murdered man - 'the coals went so wild as they swallowed the rest' (of his flesh?). She's twisting and breaking the man so that he can be eaten by the fire and she can be free from his 'throne on her chest', which makes me think she loved him at some point. But now he's destroyed.
In the second stanza, she's realised what's she's done and can't handle it - 'wrapped in the depth of these deeds'. She's trapped in a hell symbolised in 'the basement' - a place which is dark, subterranean and spooky. The last line of this stanza is one of my all time faves by Neko "A demon holds my place on earth til I die", which I like to think references one of the lowest circles of Dante's Inferno, where Dante comes across a man he knows to be alive on earth. When he inquires how this is possible, the man tells of his hideous sin and informs Dante that some sins are so awful that once one committs them, one's soul goes immediately to hell and a demon inhabits the body on earth until the body dies. So whatever she has done, it is bad bad bad.
The repeated "At night all I hear is your heart"s, I think of as another literary reference, this time to Poe's The Telltale Heart. She's killed him and detroyed the evidence, but the guilt is following her in the sound of his heart's beating.
This is one damn fantastic song. I heard her sing it live, with a totally unaccompanied start, and it gave me such chills.