Summer has erased me
Comfort is only skin deep
But dirty memory fills reason
To die correct and missing
I burned up, I burned up
A blaze upon re-entry
slow down
I woke up I woke up
Face down and on the shoreline
Paradise is mine
Shadows and living trees
Reach out to embrace me
This place here is where we don't exist
He carries dead weight with his fist
I burned up, I burned up
A blaze upon re-entry
slow down
I woke up I woke up
Face down and on the shoreline
Paradise is mine
You can't take it with you
You can't take it with you
Frame by frame we begin to change
Skeletons with robot brains
Cheap vodka bought for yourself
A repition upon the stage
Over and over again, over and over again
Where is the end
Comfort is only skin deep
But dirty memory fills reason
To die correct and missing
A blaze upon re-entry
slow down
I woke up I woke up
Face down and on the shoreline
Paradise is mine
Reach out to embrace me
This place here is where we don't exist
He carries dead weight with his fist
A blaze upon re-entry
slow down
I woke up I woke up
Face down and on the shoreline
Paradise is mine
You can't take it with you
Frame by frame we begin to change
Skeletons with robot brains
Cheap vodka bought for yourself
A repition upon the stage
Over and over again, over and over again
Where is the end
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i don't know if anyone has read the Ender's Game series, but there is a character named Miro in the later books who goes through a lot of the same scenarios as in the song.
With the ending, I thought he was talking about the nature of our existence.
With the ending, I thought he was talking about the nature of our existence.
with "you can't take it with you", maybe he was talking about our conscious experiences/memories after death.
with "you can't take it with you", maybe he was talking about our conscious experiences/memories after death.
"frame by frame we begin to change", sounds like a pretty cool and accurate way of phrasing how our brains and thus our lives continually change over time. It reflects how we are evolving organisms. each moment is always a unique brain state.
"frame by frame we begin to change", sounds like a pretty cool and accurate way of phrasing how our brains and thus our lives continually change over time. It reflects how we are evolving organisms. each moment is always a unique brain state.
"skeletons and robot brains" describes us. We are skeletons with robotic, mechanistic brains. He just didn't add in the musculature/tissue/blood bit....
"skeletons and robot brains" describes us. We are skeletons with robotic, mechanistic brains. He just didn't add in the musculature/tissue/blood bit. That would be too much for the song. skeletons and robot brains is a good choice, to me. The highlights of our "physical" forms.
The last lines to me sound like he could be talking about a cyclical universe theory of our universe. each cycle of the universe informs the next cycle of correct settings for the physical laws so that the universe can play itself out all upon a stage, which could be space, over and over and over again. The cycle is infinite..
I could be biased as this reflects how I've been thinking lately. The interpretation seems valid to me, though. I love this song to death. Especially with this new deeper meaning, even if it is only self-fabricated depth.
Oh, the chorus does sound like taking drugs and enjoying the high. Although, I still like the immediate imagery of a meteorite ablazed upon reentry crashing into the shore. It makes me think of 'Contact' where they go to the beach through the wormhole, I guess just because of the beach similarity.
The intro sounds like a reference to depression from self hate and self consciousness.
whoa.."slumber has erased me". That sounds as if he is referring to the memory loss that occurs with bad, genuine depression. A natural defense mechanism of the brain is to erase the memories of the past that are making you depressed. This can allow you to function normally again. Kind of like starting over again...but not really. This occurs mostly during sleep, too, during the memory consolidation/integration/scrambling-deletion process that we can experience as dreaming.
"Shadows and living trees, reach out to embrace me A broken mirror reveals reason, to digest corrective medicine"
"Shadows and living trees, reach out to embrace me A broken mirror reveals reason, to digest corrective medicine"
he hates his broken body
he hates his broken body
"Shadows and living trees, reach out to embrace me A dirty mirror reveals reason, to digest corrective medicine"
"Shadows and living trees, reach out to embrace me A dirty mirror reveals reason, to digest corrective medicine"
he hates his broken body
he hates his broken body
This is an amazing song, probably my favourite I've heard from the new album so far. The chorus rocks.
i thinks its funny but good. it just makes me and my freidns laugh
A few minor corrections...
Slumber has ereased me Comfort is only skin deep A dirty mirror reveals reason To digest corrective medicine
I burned up x2 Ablaze upon re-entry Slow down I woke up x2 Face down along the shoreline Paradise is mine
Shadows and living trees Reach out to embrace me This place, here, is where we don't exist He carries dead weight with his fist
I burned up x2 Face down along the shoreline Paradise is mine
You can't take it with you x2 Frame by frame we begin to change Skeletons and robot brains She found a book that writes itself That plays it all upon a stage Over and over again x2 Where is the end?
I feel like this song hovers around the topic of depression and some sort of dissatisfaction with self. I don't want to say that it has to do with drug use, but I think it talks about some kind of amphetamine usage to come back into "paradise", lives your life for you, and it's showcased (obvious). Basically plagued with paranoia and living, while, not really living at all. Not existing. Past and present coexisting simultaneously, here amongst the dead, like a direct parallel between life and death. Somewhere in-between with physical bearing, but empty, and heavy...weird. In the escape, I believe paradise is a temporary retreat, through a single dose. Unending. I dunno, just how it hit me, great song though, I like the new shift in sound. Sorry about the rant, made sense to me though. Oh well, cheerio minions...
Yeah, ereased, should be, erased, but you knew that. Au revoir...
i forgot to add the rest to the second chorus...but it's the same as the first chorus...duh.
the song's name... is it because of Joan Miro, the painter?
The name is derived from the Book 'Speaker For The Dead', Miro Rebeira. Ender's stepson. There is a light that says
The name is derived from the Book 'Speaker For The Dead', Miro Rebeira. Ender's stepson. There is a light that says
"Shadows and living trees, reach out to embrace me."
"Shadows and living trees, reach out to embrace me."
In Xenocide there is a scene where the Buggers(Formics) show themselves to the humans of Lusitania. They appear as shadows in the night, but everyone knew they were the creatures of their nightmares, shadows. There is an alien race on this planet that turn into trees when their piglike resembling body passes from this life to what they call the Third life, living trees.
In Xenocide there is a scene where the Buggers(Formics) show themselves to the humans of Lusitania. They appear as shadows in the night, but everyone knew they were the creatures of their nightmares, shadows. There is an alien race on this planet that turn into trees when their piglike resembling body passes from this life to what they call the Third life, living trees.
I'm kind of with pariah919, that perhaps it's something drug related..?
"Comfort Is Only Skin Deep" might be some reference to self harm, caused by sadness, or paranoia from the drugs, and the burning up could be a side effect of the drugs, or some sort of fever, and the paradise is some sort of hallucination, maybe..?
Just my thoughts.
"Frame by frame we begin to change Skeletons with robot brains"
That line always stood out to me. I think it's sort of a rejection of the traditional idea of "growing up." Maybe someone who isn't quite an adult yet but will be in a few years (maybe around 18, my age), notices, in all the adults around them, that as people become more "mature" and place more value in being stable, they lose a lot of their passion, and become hollowed out and automated. They use the analogy of skeletons with robot brains to describe these people, and reject the series of slow changes that leads to a conventional adulthood, choosing to remain passionate, idealistic, and youthful.
Of course, there's probably a whole other set of meanings in this song. I think "comfort is only skin deep" is about how we reassure ourselves, but we can never really escape thoughts of things like death, nuclear war, if we have souls, the end of the world... All that really deep, dark primal stuff.
the last verse is awesome his voice is like HELLO