Midnight Aspen Lyrics
As if he were on
So it goes higher and higher
Till the last
Hyphen
Aspen
Utah
Ice mounting over
Jehovah
6 p.m.
Rising
Orion
It bounces off
The satellite
He was lucky this week
Midnight
its about author / gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson who lived for a time and ran for sheriff in aspen colorado (not utah) he was a known gun enthusiast (he aims the bestest powered rifles at the sky) his death (by suicide) in 2005 inspired MES to right this song
apparently about Jehovah's Witnesses,I got it from a review about "Fall Heads Roll".. but who knows what those weird Fall lyrics mean, except Smith who wrote it.
All I know is that this song is beautiful, not a typical Fall song, and to my opinion one of the best Fall songs in years.
@JpnGht Not sure where you got that from. I don't see how that lyric necessarily makes it, or any of the song, about Jehovah's Witnesses. In line with what the commenter below has said, MES is quoted in a Pitchfork interview (http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6168-the-fall/) as saying:
@JpnGht Not sure where you got that from. I don't see how that lyric necessarily makes it, or any of the song, about Jehovah's Witnesses. In line with what the commenter below has said, MES is quoted in a Pitchfork interview (http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6168-the-fall/) as saying:
"... Steve wrote it, the bass player. He's quite into that sort of organic, sort of Liverpool sound, actually. But I thought I'd couple it up with, like, Hunter S. Thompson dying, and all that. That's the vague idea. Half the songs, I made the lyrics up on the spot. That's...
"... Steve wrote it, the bass player. He's quite into that sort of organic, sort of Liverpool sound, actually. But I thought I'd couple it up with, like, Hunter S. Thompson dying, and all that. That's the vague idea. Half the songs, I made the lyrics up on the spot. That's the way I work. I have half the songs prepared, and half were just improvised. What happened in New York is they got there before me, and there was that big snow drift, so they were there for like four days on their own ..."
Given the nature of the song, I guess it's possible that before MES added the Hunter S Thompson side of it, the song lyrics were influenced by the surroundings of New York in the snow. This could have included the Watch Tower building and sign for that small lyric, maybe, but who knows?! Such connections very speculative.