In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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hell of a good interpretation! just seen a concert yesterday, which wasnt really like a concert but like a weird play in a huge theatre while each word could mean so many different things which makes it hard to find just one really good interpretation for yourself. thanks for that! ah by the way...they refer to that old nazi shit a lot in their lyrics and their show and all the stage props (stage looked like a bunker)...so the sun might stand for the swastika...symbol for sun in some old religions. thatd be a fine antagonism between the sun we all live of and the dark death linked to hitlers governance. not really an interpretation but its an idea i got by the live perfomance.
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@sl8734 Good points. Yeah, I think what you're describing (the way I understood it) is related to concepts of existentialism and how we ascribe/assign meaning to (for argument's sake) otherwise meaningless things in order to...well, give our lives "meaning". As a possible example, lorne from song facts wrote "In the music video, the band members play the 7 Dwarves. They mine gold, which Snow White then crushes up and snorts like cocaine - at the end of the video she overdoses." ... which, to me, is a lot like what you're saying, where the 7 dwarves (representing all of us, in a sense) aspire to / work hard for something ...that, ultimately sucks all our resources (aka Nietzsche's "will of power") and the goal ends up being something we were terribly wrong about. Lorne also mentions "At one point, the band thought of making a video, in which they'd play the crew of the Enola Gay dropping the bomb on Hiroshima. First there would have been the refrain ("Hier kommt die Sonne...") and then they'd show the explosion. They also wanted to show how after years the crew committed suicide, as they were mentally broken when they realized what they had done." Reading your insightful take, one can't help but think back to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: From wiki: "Some prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth in favor of perspectivism; his genealogical critique of religion and Christian morality, and his related theory of master–slave morality; his aesthetic affirmation of existence in response to the "death of God" and the profound crisis of nihilism; his notion of the Apollonian and Dionysian; and his characterization of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power." {sic: footnotes omitted}. <br /> <br /> Nihilism (ibid), "is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the lack of belief in one or more reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Moral nihilists assert that there is no inherent morality, and that accepted moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism may also take epistemological, ontological, or metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or reality does not actually exist.<br /> <br /> The term is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws. Movements such as futurism and deconstruction, among others, have been identified by commentators as "nihilistic"." <br /> <br /> So, in short, I think you hit it on the head. And hope my 2 cents can afford the cherry on top. <br /> <br /> Great website.