Bishop, CA

Hitting on the irony of death personified to an individual versus the activity that person was doing, the song is about how we feel bad for the people who die engaged in the very activities that are killing everyone on a slower, more global scale. Adding to the irony is we feel bad for these people briefly and then it drifts away yet what they were doing is killing everyone and we can't figure out why we're all getting harmed.

This is the best song ever live.

This cd is so fucking great. I've seen xiu xiu twice in less than a year and they are so great live.

i think that the vidio is apt, the song is so dynamic and intense that any naritive or more objective images such as them playing, would be too distracting, i would do things a litle diferently though.

I think it's another song that can be linked to rape. Someone being held captive or imprisoned in a basement or something like that. Maybe a father holding his children as prisoner's in a dark, cell-like place. I think the first verse really points the song in this direction.

The final verse certainly leans towards the rape interpretation, but I think LowRentKicker is closer on this one.

I absolutely LOVE the way the voice gets muffled when he starts singing about the mine collapsing!

I think it's more literal than lowrentkicker's take on it (but more disturbing). I think it's about a dad who keeps his children as sexual prisoners. "This blue dot of sickly light that is daytime in your embarrassed town" is the lack of daylight and humanity they receive. "when we see the hate in your eyes it doesn't make us better men" is referring to the dad who's stuck in this system and it's reaping little rewards but he still keeps it up. The mine's crushed your brother and it's falling down on you - you're brother's will has snapped and you're heading in the same direction. The last verse is Jamie's reflection and how hopeless this "stupid world we share" is.

*I also don't think it's 'mind' but mine, again, but my friend is borrowing my CD so I can't check.

Okay I don't know if these lyrics were taken from a lyric book or something, so I could be wrong, but I could swear that it's "the night" your daddy raped you silly, not "than that."

This one seems to have a meaning, that for me is a bit harder to crack.. let's see..

"this blue dot of sickly light that is daytime in your embarassed town" -to me, the blue dot seems like all that you can see of the sky from the bottom of the well, where you're imprisoned

"burns a hole in the fading yellow ribbon on your fading wine colored Cavaliere" -"Yellow ribbon" has been used for various purposes, notably, for the support of the hostages of something called the iran hostage crisis, calling it the "cavaliere", too, points to an imaginary hero whom the hostages wish to free them from the well.

"the mine has fallen down on you as you dug a well of death milk and sugar water in brief sympathy with them"

-The town mentioned before might be thought of as being in the subjects (who is talked about as 'you') 'ownership', so the 'you' isn't living in the town in the bottom of the well.. and the mine falling down on him, means that he didn't succeed to keep his hostages alive and well being, thus 'well of death'..

I might be far off, but the rest seems to follow from this interpretation.

"the mine has crushed your brother" -might mean that his brother found out about the mine, and got killed or anything

just a fun note, "wala" apparently means "I swear" in arabic. Doubt it's relevant, but still.

Anyway, this song is fucking brutal and is what I love about Xiu Xiu.