Wow, I'm the first person to comment on this song in 20 years! I think that @intrepidchicken, who wrote the most recent comment 20 years ago, is right. When you hear the song in 2025, when I'm writing this, and he sing about a woman using a physical map, I realize that the song is now set firmly in the lost past. What I like is how it starts like a movie and puts you right in the scene. I can picture the whole thing, but now I imagine it taking place all the way back in another age.
Wow, I'm the first person to comment on this song in 20 years! I think that @intrepidchicken, who wrote the most recent comment 20 years ago, is right. When you hear the song in 2025, when I'm writing this, and he sing about a woman using a physical map, I realize that the song is now set firmly in the lost past. What I like is how it starts like a movie and puts you right in the scene. I can picture the whole thing, but now I imagine it taking place all the way back in another age.
I like to think of this whole album as a single narrative. Partly taking place in the real world, and partly in a shared dreamscape, between two to three characters struggling with loss and depression. So to me, Lighthouse picks up right where Lion's Roar ends, in that the man searching for the missing girl from Lion's Roar finds her in the circus, tries to free her from it and they start a fire to escape the people chasing them at the end of the song.
I like to think of this whole album as a single narrative. Partly taking place in the real world, and partly in a shared dreamscape, between two to three characters struggling with loss and depression. So to me, Lighthouse picks up right where Lion's Roar ends, in that the man searching for the missing girl from Lion's Roar finds her in the circus, tries to free her from it and they start a fire to escape the people chasing them at the end of the song.
Where Lighthouse picks up the story, the Searching Man is the first...
Where Lighthouse picks up the story, the Searching Man is the first singer (verses 1, 2, 4), and the second singer (verses 3, 5, 6) is the Missing Girl. He just recently arrived from over sea ("Desperate Search across sea and land" from lion's roar), so he knows about the coming storm, and the girl is from the Burning City or spent time there as a child, so she knows about the ghost in the lighthouse. They go there and die, but not really because all of this was part of the dreamscape.
The Ghost is a previous version of the Missing Girl (Singer #2), from a past relationship that turned toxic (the lover that never returned, is her ex that changed and she never recognized him again). So it's a part of herself that she had to "kill" to move on, or a part of herself that her ex "killed" during the toxic relationship.
A song to reassure Jospehine you love her so much she'd still be special if you had power and success. I like the cute little anachronisms at the start. The lyrics are so pretty, and the instruments give me asmr, feels like someone running their fingers through my hair.
A song to reassure Jospehine you love her so much she'd still be special if you had power and success. I like the cute little anachronisms at the start. The lyrics are so pretty, and the instruments give me asmr, feels like someone running their fingers through my hair.
was just jamming to the song and it was hitting hard so I looked up the lyrics. I found it particularly interesting at the end he says take me to the river. I wonder is that where he was sitting there thinking in the beginning of the song? Or does he mean take me to river to be baptized? What do you think?
was just jamming to the song and it was hitting hard so I looked up the lyrics. I found it particularly interesting at the end he says take me to the river. I wonder is that where he was sitting there thinking in the beginning of the song? Or does he mean take me to river to be baptized? What do you think?
Probably the only pop song about the plight of the silkworm. Brilliant.
Probably the only pop song about the plight of the silkworm. Brilliant.
The last verse is bleak, and seems to suggest that in fact there is no Buddha (and by inference, God) because the suffering continues. If the perpetrators don't stop, they aren't stopped either. After all, Buddha is very passive in this, watching and waiting.
The last verse is bleak, and seems to suggest that in fact there is no Buddha (and by inference, God) because the suffering continues. If the perpetrators don't stop, they aren't stopped either. After all, Buddha is very passive in this, watching and waiting.
Ann is a dominatrix or a witch, or at least a woman whom the singer is willing to be a slave to.
Ann is a dominatrix or a witch, or at least a woman whom the singer is willing to be a slave to.
Little known fact is the origin of the title of this song: Basically this was one of the first Alexisonfire songs ever written and when they were jamming it on the second floor of a two-story building, some girls across the street saw them jamming through the window and started pointing and laughing at them so they thought it fits the song very well - hence the name. Source: an interview I did with the band back in 2005.
Little known fact is the origin of the title of this song: Basically this was one of the first Alexisonfire songs ever written and when they were jamming it on the second floor of a two-story building, some girls across the street saw them jamming through the window and started pointing and laughing at them so they thought it fits the song very well - hence the name. Source: an interview I did with the band back in 2005.
This has to be one of his finest songs.
This has to be one of his finest songs.
This has got to be the best song ever written on this subject. But then again, the same can be said about so many of his songs.
This has got to be the best song ever written on this subject. But then again, the same can be said about so many of his songs.
This is originally written by Regina Spektor. Peter Gabriel covered it. I think the original song should have it's own page, not just the cover.
This is originally written by Regina Spektor. Peter Gabriel covered it. I think the original song should have it's own page, not just the cover.