| Muse – Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm going to have to agree with the first several posters and strongly disagree with DeedlesMarie. It's not like sci-fi stories are foreign concepts to Muse albums (Black Holes and Revelations, anyone?). And these lyrics scream sci-fi. Rise above the crowds Wade through toxic clouds Breach the outer sphere The edge of all our fears rest with you We are counting on you, It's up to you Astronauts taking off and leaving the earth. That makes sense. Spread our codes to the stars, You must rescue us all This song is called Cross Pollination. Cross pollination is usually talking about mating one flower with another flower. However, it makes sense that it would mean breeding species from one planet on another planet. Tell us Tell us your final wish, Now we know you can never return Tell us Tell us your final wish, We will tell it to the world Asking the astronauts if they have anything they want to tell the world, since the astronauts won't be returning and everyone on earth is screwed. I think the lyrics are pretty straightforward, really. |
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| The Dear Hunter – The Bitter Suite II: Embrace Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'm surprised there aren't more comments here. This is possibly my favorite Dear Hunter song. The build up is just epic. | |
| The Dear Hunter – Black Sandy Beaches Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| An idea about the possible contradiction I talked about in the last post. Perhaps when she sees the first broken bottle, she is happy because she thinks The Dear Hunter threw out the message before giving it to Ms. Leading. Then she stumbles upon the second bottle and sees the ink running from tears. She may have assumed incorrectly regarding the first message. | |
| The Dear Hunter – Black Sandy Beaches Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't think this is a metaphor. If I'm not mistaken, the story is taking place in the 1800s, so it seems right for the times for a person to write a letter in ink. "Messages from broken bottles fall" The first bottle is already broken when the person finds it. "Ink conveying across the page now run from morning dew" The bottle wasn't thrown in the lake. Otherwise the ink would have already run off before the dew could produce the same effect. "Oh how she smiles from vicarious love from the one he writes about" This is a third, unnamed woman who hasn't been introduced in the story yet. Grammatically, if she is smiling from vicarious love, then she is the one who is imagining her participation in the story. She's putting herself in Ms. Leading's shoes. "She must have been so glad for him to throw it out" She was smiling in the last line, and this line makes it clear that The Dear Hunter threw away the letter without showing Ms. Leading. "Further steps lead to yet another broken bottle" The unnamed woman finds a second broken bottle. "Whose tears were these which remit ink From who they bore to make this streak Where they his by chance from telling her? Or hers by chance from reading it?" Obviously this is just the unnamed woman wondering whose tears have made the ink run on the second letter. The Dear Hunter's from writing the letter, or Ms. Leading from reading it, or both of them. However, this seems to contradict the previous line where it says he threw it out. I'm not sure how to reconcile this. "Why don’t we see what comes next" ... "We couldn’t fake it so why even try?" I think one of the above posters could be right that this is the last line. It doesn't really make sense with the surrounding lyrics, but I'm not convinced this is the last line of the letter. Either way, were they unable to fake their love for each other? I'm not sure. "Lets just say, she, she is better Better off somehow" I think this line is referring to Ms. Leading instead of the unnamed woman. The keyword is "somehow." You would think Ms. Leading would be heart broken, but "somehow" she's better off. |
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