Once it's life's fortunate
Isn't this so?
The unreflected feeling
Of a shortened final soul
The life that cuts the cold
Now is in your past
In our memories
We don't have much to say
We don't have much to say
We don't have much
Follow anybody
Is that what you do?
Maybe it transfixed
Done something else with you
Now we know what we'll be in the past
Another story
Another life that's left
Another life that's left
Isn't this so?
The unreflected feeling
Of a shortened final soul
The life that cuts the cold
Now is in your past
In our memories
We don't have much to say
We don't have much to say
We don't have much
Follow anybody
Is that what you do?
Maybe it transfixed
Done something else with you
Now we know what we'll be in the past
Another story
Another life that's left
Another life that's left
Lyrics submitted by numb, edited by smallwonderrobot
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this refers to what is known as a "twin flame/karmic" relationship or "soul mate"
Once it's life's fortunate
(This is the one time that you meet with your reflection/mirror or twin flame)
Isn't this so?
The unreflected feeling
Of a shortened final soul
(This the knowledge that you will end without that soulmate/mirror)
The life that cuts the cold
Now is in your past
In our memories
We don't have much to say
We don't have much to say
We don't have much
Follow anybody
Is that what you do?
Maybe it transfixed
(transfixed can mean two different things. To be astonished or pierce with a sharp implement or weapon. So if it is referring to the sharp implement... the mental connection with your soul mate always comes thru. That's what it feels like. To be suddenly pierced by thoughts and feelings of that soul mate you are connected with.)
Done something else with you
Now we know what we'll be in the past
Another story
Another life that's left
Another life that's left
(Having several past lives with that soul)
Love your interpretation! I actually thought very much the same thing!
The laugh that cuts cold / Now is in the past
.....
Maybe it's transfixed
On something else to do
Analysis / interpretation
1. Hope Sandoval either isn't keen on grammar or she doesn't care about it ("Among My Swan" is one example. Among is plural; swan is singular. "Unreflected" is also strange because reflect is a verb, but she uses it as an adjective - the adjective form would be reflective or reflecting. Poetic license, I suppose.)
2. For whatever reason this song makes me think of fame, perhaps influenced by a comment a friend of hers once said: some audience members had thrown tomatoes at the band when they first started to play gigs. (The laugh that cuts cold now is in the past; in our memories, we don't have much to say.)
2a. Now that the band has achieved a modicum of fame, she has probably experienced a few hanger-ons (Follow anybody / Is that what you do? / Maybe it transfixed on something else to do) Perhaps the person in question is a follower or maybe he or she just wants to engage in activity, meaningless or otherwise.
2b. But at bottom, the band (and fame) isn't significant. Everyone eventually becomes a speck in the dustbin of history. (Now we know what we'll be in the past / Another story / Another life that's left) Perhaps the last phrase is an incorrect way of stating: another life that HAS left)
2c. Unreflected is anyone's guess, but it could mean that the feeling in question is a realization that one won't shine. Perhaps it's another way of expressing that dull feeling you get when you think of mortality (the unreflected feeling / Of a shortened final soul).
2. Another interpretation is that it involves a death of a friend.