| Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Just to add a few of my personal interpretations... The "Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out Was a song?" line elicits this surreal image of looking up at the shattered windshield of a car, blood and such everywhere, everything tilted and illogical, and some inane pop music ditty still blaring away on the intact radio, completely indifferent to the death of the narrator, who, of course, feels that the world should stop now that they have... if you ever watch the news and realize that every second that you waste caring about some celebrity marriage or cat-stuck-in-tree story, five people have died. Also, if that wasn't strange enough, the Did you feel the end before the suns of mothers Tearing you apart?" (I heard 'suns' as 'sons' gave me this image of getting shot in some war by someone else who is equally interested primarily in self preservation... This song is about the utter incomprehensible absurdity of the moment of death as it exists in our consciouses today. |
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