Walls of Jericho

well the "another tomorrow..." part leads me to think its not about 9/11

there are parts that lead me to think its about Hiroshima "What dreams splendidly weaved from an atom bomb retrieved from a teleprompt." this is the us telling them to drop the bomb

the japanese didnt want to surrender and the use "broke the ice with a cotton swab" (or used violent means to break them)

"No one was waiting to throw out the pilot. We'll float on the back of the winds that you send us." this is about the kamakazi's who "float on the back of the winds" kamakazi is actually (my japanese mythology is kinda rusty..) the god of the wind

"Another tomorrow, shedding the shade we made yesterday. Disguised as the lightning, dissolving all of the thunder, then - Appeasing our monsters under the acrylic skies. Another tomorrow.." after they dropped the first bomb the japanese didnt surrender so the dropped "another tomorrow"

not sure about the airbags part int the next verse but the other stuff makes since "Another tomorrow fills up my front window. Outlasting the west wind and building ourselves in so fly, and grab my hand here comes the crash I live for the strong impact that renders both our airbags. Seven folds take very letter you send, don't fold if you're made to bend, rekindle the feud again." "tomorrow" the light of the bomb filled the windows witch outlasted the kamakazis, thus breaking the japanese

last part: "String up your harp, play like today will last five minutes. It wont take long to sing us a song to stop the sirens. Sing us a song to stop the silence." just talks about the horror of it... wish is a quick (hot) death

This albums songs titels are based from the names of paintings. Is what iv read from their website.

This song to me sounds like a plain crash maby? car crash? Life flashing before their eyes.

whater it is its a great song with great vocals.

I believe it MIGHT be talking about the 9/11 incident.

i agree with you Zenfull and to add to your thought the hole thing about the air bag to me is the fact the the impact of the bomb is so powerfull that nothing could save you from it, and he wants the person to hold his hand one last time (I live for the strong impact ) thats saying that you want to be were the impact happens for a quick death

The way he sings 'under the acrylic skies' gives me shivers.Amazing voice,amazing song!

WOW! i never thought it was about the bombing--i always thought that was just another metaphor! whether or not it's about that, that's a great explanation, and it definitely fits. ...but then where does 'walls of jericho' come in? the walls of jericho collapsed in a battle that ended up being basically a genocide, if the history recorded was true....but that's just in the bible and it was so long ago, archaeologists can't be sure. anyways, idk if that meant anything. ...i just wanted to see if there was some reason why it'd be called that. i thought the song could be kind of sarcastic towards god, rather than a kamakazi. either way, it sounds like it's about war/death/etc. i don't know...that's far-off.

whatever way...awesome song.

great song.

Yeah, i agree that it is about the atom bomb being dropped on Japan. There is more evidence in the lyrics of a demo version of the song. In that version, instead of "no one was waiting to throw out the pilot, Darroh says "no one was eating and barely surviving." There's another line where he says "mixing the coral skies, igniting the 9-5, streets here are not alive." I think that's pretty conclusive evidence that it is about the atom bomb. When the bomb was dropped, everyone was working, or heading to work, so they "ignited the 9-5" One more line from that song is "searching the scattered sticks, all handshakes and loving it. Whats a captain without his ship." Meaning, people were searching though the rubble, while the Japanese emperor surrendered aka" all handshakes and loving it" "Whats a Capitan without his ship" means that he really had no choice to surrender because his enemies were just going to keep dropping bombs, and whats the point of being the emperor when there's no country left to rule.

After reading everyone posts it looks like the song does point towards Hiroshima.

"A hand shakes a contact sport" points towards how they had to drop the A-Bomb in order for them to surrender. There for making the hand shake somewhat of a contact sport.

"Disguised as the lightning, dissolving all of the thunder, then - Appeasing our monsters under the acrylic skies." I see the first part as the people thinking it's lighting and then the thunder dissolves into what's really a big boom. I also noticed that appeasing means to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe. Appeasing our monsters means to calm, ease, quiet Japan since they were our "monster" at the time.

"Did you recognize your next door neighbor today?" Well would you recognize your neighbor if an Atom Bomb landed on his house?

Sorry if it's kinda sketchy. I was just listening to the song and had a few thoughts.

And I much say, after finding out the meaning of the song made it a hell of a lot better. Amazing song, amazing vocals, another reason why they are one of my favorites.

This is about the atomic bombings of Japan in WW2, which has been mentioned before. But what I haven't seen mentioned is "shedding the shade we made yesterday" as more proof of this. When a nuclear weapon is detonated the shadows it creates are burned into whatever surface they are on, so you quite literally have to shed off the shadows made days before afterwards.

damn good song by an incredible band... pitty so few know these guys