Slain, by your zirconium smile
I was slain by your olivine eyes,
Slain, I was lying in piles, hoping shovels would cast me in.
Furnaces burn everlasting, black tattoos of you on to me.Furnaces burn everlasting, black tattoos.

Burn, brand my memory, black tattoo of you.
Wash me with your mouth, blackish bright water from your eyes

Homing pigeons fly to hover by your window white and shy.
Homing pigeons fly to hover by.

Spill my ashes to the wind.
Ghosts gather what they found (ghosts will gather what they found)
Now we can strugle in the web

We can struggle
With white spider stars come down.
And night blowing black from the ground.


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    This new album is outstanding. It's in a different league from Troubled by the Fire and Carbon Glacier.

    This song's name, I believe, provides most insight to its meaning. I think that it's about being drawn (or magnetized!) toward something that's bad for you, or that's a hindrance.

    The first verse suggests a man who seems to have lured a girl into a romance that ended in a bad situation (hence "Slain...wishing shovels would cast me in). The black tattoos represent marks of him on her, the fact that she hasn't and won't forget him.

    Homing pigeons, of course, represent returning home. She returns to him, "hovering by his window" yet to afraid and scarred to return into a relationship.

    I think the last verse is talking about the fact that she's trapped herself in a web by returning to him. Eventually, she will be ruined (possibly by obsessive love of him, or something along those lines).

    "White spider stars" must be one of my favourite metaphors. Beautiful song.

    queenofquiet23on November 09, 2005   Link

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