The Scientists

Pretty sure the last stanza is:

"piloted my bedspins to the ground"

not

"you piloted my distance to the ground"

last stanza- "you piloted my distance to the ground"

great song.

this is what i hear in the fourth stanza:

"docile living lusters forming pools beneath her feet invertebrates that only she can see and i say 'what on earth are all these engines for?' she says 'exactly, we're not gonna wait around here anymore.'"

"she" turns his question into a pun with her answer. it makes sense to me considering the next line:

"systems back down slow watch the dust cloud rescind."

like a space shuttle's engines & the settling debris in the lauch zone? maybe i'm wrong.

This song is actaully about how there is a couple and they are both scientists. Her lab is upstairs and his lab is downstairs. They are both making wierd drugs and they test them on each other and they are both running up and down saying you take this and you take that. So put the lyrics into that story and it all makes sense.

I like the idea of two scientists testing chemicals out on each other, but i would like to elaborate. There two scientists who are desperate for a break through with their research, "smiling now as only she can be. she said "i made some new connections to astound them all". Shes smiling because shes finally discovered that scientific breakthrough (whatever it may be). Turns out she went mad from working too hard to achieve the discovery and the actual breakthrough isn't a breakthrough at all but rather a self inflicted science experiment involving ester and other dangerous chemicals. Her lab partner starts to go blind from being exposed to too many chemicals hence the lines "invertebrates that only she can see", "i want to see it all again" and "keep this benzene ring around your finger". Benzene is used as a distilling agent in many chemicals to prevent people from actually going blind. Through all this madness that is taking place and reoccurring chemical explosions leaving dust clouds behind, he continues to love his insane partner and he tells her that he will take care of her. Unfortunately, "its too much" and hes "too late" to save them from the destructive environment that she created.