| Death Cab for Cutie – Brothers on a Hotel Bed Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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the difference in interpretation between the previous two arguments is partially that they lie on opposing sides of an abstract-intangible vs concrete physical application on the emotion-related concepts of the song. (i.e., applying it to a phenomenon that is overtly and permanently integrated into and manifest in the physical reality (in general), namely the relationship phenomenon that you referred to versus the more general interpretation that related the song's emotion-related concepts to an more intangible set of phenomena. my personal connection to the emotion-related concepts in the song (henceforce ELCs) involves generalizations that are tending toward the abstract side of the continuum rather than as physical manifestations that are approached in a manner similar to Inside my mind there exists a dark force that, from the beginning, has gradually choked the life away from my 'soul', which i refer to with care and note that by 'soul' i'm referring to the abstract (see: general, broader, usually when speaking of patterns or concepts; made up of other patterns or conceptual frameworks that manifest like an endless progression of tree to branch to branch to ... to branch^n as n->inf;) concepts that are the building blocks of the mind. Anyway, this force has been with me for many years; combined with a variety of unfortunate circumstances sprinkled throughout the time, it has led to a point that I cannot fully understand. Its effect on my life and my personality, which I currently believe to be virtually non-existent and in a similar context even supplanted by a carousel of multiple psyches, has crept up on me and i'm no longer sure of who i am at all. this set of emotion-related concepts is very deeply entrenched in my 'network of ERCs' and is therefore very difficult to characterize, articulate, or even identify. i could go on about it for quite some time but this comment was originally to convey an interpretation of this song. this 'phenomenon' or 'manifestation' as we may call it, is not a separate 'entity' or existence of course, but simply a 'manifestation' in terms of the low-level patterns of the brain that can be characterized via metaphor as some sort of 'darkness'. in this song I (or pseudo-I, as i am now speaking through the lyrics) i speak to the darkness. this is similar to the 'growing up vs being young' emotion-related set of concepts that many other contributors have alluded to, with the dark, jaded, weathered current self is speaking to the darkness about what it was like before it all began, in a sort of 'why did this happen?' and 'how did things get like this?' kind of way. 'Who turned your way and saw ...' clearly i was looking for something in turning to the infantile darkness which, shortly after it was birthed by my mind, steadily grew in somewhat the same manner as a weed might infest the soil. at this point i've 'seen' something i wasn't looking for, and i long to separate myself (at least to the extent that i can breathe and be free to explore other states of consciousness unbound by the parameters/influence of the darkness. it's come to the point where i don't recognize who i've become, having hid the gradual deterioration of my psyche from myself with cunningly convincing justification and reasoning that are perhaps also intrinsically bound to the darkness. the separate sides of the bed metaphor refers to how disillusion is starting to develop. you can probably infer the rest; trying to 'take off' (as in to change; supplant with something comparable structurally) from the aforementioned 'unfortunate circumstances'; etc. i can of course elaborate on this phenomenon and its relation to the song but you hopefully can understand some of the emotions already. and i'm quite hungry |
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