| La Dispute – The Last Lost Continent Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Nice analysis. I think that The 'sickness' MAY be an extended metaphor for things that prevent love from flourishing. This ties in with the theme of the album as a whole of getting to the bottom of what separates lovers - hence the title 'Somewhere at the Bottom of The River Between Vega and Altair' - refering to the Japanese folk tale where the river between the lovers is flooded to prevent their love from happening (this story is told in Hear Here number four). So the river represents things that prevent love. In this song he kinda rounds off the theme by exploring all of those emotions in an very climactic song that ends with the optimistic 'we will never die' which shows the conclusion of the album to be that together we can create love strong enough to overcome all obstacles. Obviously sickness is being explored as literal sickness but the idea of it being an extended metaphor is possible too. The title refers to the line from Tom Robbins' novel: 'Still Life With Woodpecker' which, as a novel, explores how to make love stay and the 'last lost continent' in the novel is love. | |
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