A Space Between

A car crash (named Billy) A spark that caused the great fire of London (named Red Harry) the great fire was one of the things that eventually led to the end of the bubonic plague A cut on Hitler's knee (named Georgie) Georgie could be a reference to General George Patton. I find no reference to an infected knee wound involving Hitler, though there are rumours that he had contracted syphillis. Someone's mother (named Jane) who appears to be a storm that sneezes away a continent.

The viewpoint of the singer is that of water. He is rain falling on the rusted remains of the car-crash, rain that puts out the great fire of London, water (that had to be "kidnapped") that was used to clean the wound on Hitler's knee, and finally the water of the sea, who with the power of Jane the Hurricane made a myth by hiding a continent. This would seem to point to the legend of Atlantis sinking below the waves.

Of course, by the time the story becomes a stage play, their original names have been forgotten...but not completely lost, as the chorus repeats...

Edward’s lyrics sometimes resemble fables or parables, where inanimate things and phenomena have names and act like living entities. This song seems to be about that.

After thinking about Edward's lyrics and struggling to come up with round-about meanings that make sense, he always has the most succinct way of explaining them.

"A Space in Between", he says, "Is about the idea that events have personalities."

Interesting events for him to choose.