| Bright Eyes – A Scale, a Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I'm probably wrong, but I always thought he said "in the room of my house where the lights never bend", as in the light doesn't form color; it's always gray. | |
| Bright Eyes – Ladder Song Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I love the final line, "You're not alone in trying to be." It's great | |
| Bright Eyes – Triple Spiral Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I just accidentally found this on Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_spiral It seems like it could be related? Not totally sure about the Celtic part, but Conor is an Irish name...maybe his mom is Irish? Anyway, I think the Tiffany window represents stained glass windows, for sure. Whatever religion his "maiden mother crone" represents is beckoning him to look through the lens of its religion to finally see everything inside himself colored, therefore more in detail, and clearly. He's looking below because all of that is 1. bad and 2. in his past - he's moving higher up, perhaps towards the goddess in the sky, to become closer with religion. "They looted the museum" refers to the "maiden mother crone" and anyone who helped him in this religious journey purging him of all the old emotional issues he never got rid of. The rusty suit of armor is the emotional shield he's been wearing all these years, and the casket made of 14kt gold represents the romanticism he's very often placed on death. "How sad it is to know I'm in control" pretty much speaks for itself. He finally realized that the path to happiness actually HAS been inside himself all along. He's ashamed that he didn't reach that realization sooner, and he also now has this new, frightening sense of responsibility. Oh, and the dream being over is just his past, which he spent daydreaming and not fully living life. He spent much of it in his head instead of in the moment. He never saw this much more real-feeling recovery coming - it seemed to come out of nowhere. I'm gonna take a stab at "Three worlds at once that blend together"... So, that wikipedia page says, "The triple spiral [often stands] for the "three realms" - Land, Sea and Sky." Perhaps Oberst is saying that his land, sea and sky weren't working in unison as ONE world. Maybe he felt unbalanced, but he's finally reaching that balance...things are pulling together for him and finally making some sense. "Three times I cried for them" could refer to when he's crying it's almost like it's three separate times because he's divided up into pieces. "A full Indian summer" - an Indian summer usually occurs after a "killing frost" (Google), and it is also commonly used "to suggest inconsistency, infertility, and depleted capabilities, a period of seemingly robust strength that is only an imitation of an earlier season of actual strength." He wants to feel well again - no more biting depression. He's wondering if he'd really be well or it'd just be an illusion, as well as if he should really believe this religion. Still, he wants to try to return home, feel well, and try to "carve [her] into stone" to make her real and permanent. I'm not so great at deciphering poems, so this is just my attempt! |
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