Anti-Pioneer (When the Month Changes Numbers)

album version 2011! (just titled "anti-pioneer" on the record)

start with colours they always get away with attitude but they'll try to convince you of your mood and what you want they'll give it to you but it's only therapy, that's all they do

and for a year she was anti-pioneer singing sappy songs about what went wrong two years before, but even now when the false is true when i call me you

when the flag changes colours the language knows when the month changes numbers it's time to go when the flag changes colours the language knows when the month changes numbers it's time to go

anti-pioneer then anti-pioneer then anti-pioneer then anti-pioneer then

and for a year she was anti-pioneer they passed her off too late to change her future's fate but even now when the false gets true and living colours seem possible to you

when the flag changes colours the language knows when the month changes numbers it's time to go

when the flag changes colours the language knows when the month changes numbers it's time to go home

A very depressed woman who gave up. Pioneers are creators, explorers. She gave up on moving foward and just stayed stagnant.

JesusGod, I wish this song was on The Reminder.

yeah, i'm in love with this song.

the version I listened had some extra lines:

for a year she's anti-pioneer. singing saddest songs about what went wrong. two years ago and even now there's a false with true that I call gone near you (not sure)

all I do ohh...

where was it released, who wrote this one, if feist why such a song hasn't appear in any of her albums?

Thank Feist for recording this...The string section made the song much more emotional...I love it! But i felt a lack of the guitar,it was more proeminent on the early versions...

lol I wish more people had a go at the song meaning instead of just telling us they love it! Anyway. I am really not sure what this one is about, seems maybe a woman who is in therapy after a break up?

Flags represent countries and to change the color of a flag would mean another country has conqured and divided, perhaps through war via storming borders and such. Usually, along border towns where there are two different languages, each contribues to the other to form a "hybrid" language, or mix of both. When a nation is conqured, the language may change. That is historical, at least and is much of the conqurers strategy; to deny the people of their religion (Julian/Gregorian calander?) and rid them of their native tongue.

Therapy could be thought to mean a rahabilitation as in the "colors" that represent the nation are symbols that represent the nations voice and how the voice (leader) will often promise the people prosperity ect which are absolute lies, only inteded to change the "mood" of the people.

The anti-pioneer would be someone who cares not to participate in storming borders and are more like an isolationist country. On second thought, it could also mean the people are not willing to pioneer into new territory though they are being stormed. Interesting song!

It's the seeming inevitability of relationships: the ebb and flow, and finally the eclipse. It's the narrator speaking about intuition, those feelings that are associated with the recognition that there are seasons in life and the changing of the seasons are difficult, but inevitable.