| The Weakerthans – The Prescience of Dawn Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I don't want a second chance to turn my stuttering reluctance into romance, with these documents and kindergarten anthems, with my drunken liturgies." This isn't about looking forward, it's about recounting the past. It's about the rituals associated with death, and celebrating the lives of lost loved ones. The "stuttering reluctance" with which a relationship begins, in retrospect, turns into a dashing romance. Documents (e.g., personal letters, diplomas, birth certificates, childhood memorabilia) get collected up to organize thoughts about the life being remembered and celebrated. I'm not sure about "kindergarten anthems"; maybe it refers to remembering and sharing songs that the person liked as a child, or maybe it's using the saccharine, optimistic nature of children's songs (think Barney the Dinosaur) as an analogy to the unrealistically positive way we spin the lives of lost loved ones (I love you, you love me, we're a happy family"). "Drunken liturgies" is a return to one of the themes of the album, interpreting quasi-secular rituals (eulogies and general commiseration) in sacred terms. |
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