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The Silver Jews – Time Will Break the World Lyrics 4 years ago
@[killertomatoes:37147] I came here tonight to see if anyone else thought this! Glad i'm not the only one. Purple Mountains was such an honest record, I went back through his old records and now that i understood how much he struggled with darkness, despair, addiction, vanity/self-depreciation, i realized how literal and autobiographical he had been the whole time. And this one felt really clear- I think he is saying his dad's nihilism is emblematic of the entropy and decline that the world will inexorably head towards, a pretty pessimistic feeling.

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