Winged/Wicked Things

I'm pretty sure the song is just decribing a conversation about smoke.

He says its just smoke. Other person entertains that its the hair of ghosts (wouldn't that look like smoke?). He returns that its the white hair of poseidon and adds in more imagery. It starts to turn into a convo about religion. Shroud of Turin talk is about whether its the sun that wore it white and the earth that wore it thin or if its the son (of God... Jesus) that wore it white and his faith that wore it thin. Basically if religion is real or not, or at least the shroud of turin. But the smoke is made up of the shroud of turin and its being unravelled by tiny invisible birds that are struggling to make it rise.

Of course this is defined by chaos because of how smoke does rise. Then the whole chaos is luck, luck is love, and love is blind thing comes up and basically he is trying to logically tie chaos to being blind through luck and love in turn.

The next couple of verses I can't make too much sense of. I just think of it like... people need each other to survive. Maybe he's tying that to those birds and their chaos.

Anyways, in the end when he's saying so I say oh I see now its just smoke... he's either talking about the smoke really just being smoke or that the conversation is really just smoke because it doesn't really mean anything and isn't really meant to.

Reading over this a few more times im starting to perceive that maybe spencer is simply stating that no religion is right and all of this is chaos so i say oh i see now its just smoke you say its the hair of ghosts simply put i think hes just denouncing religion for it causing so much conflict between so many people who are all one in the same

... just going to put down the complete lyrics Spencer wrote...

I say it's just smoke So you say it's the hair of ghosts So I say it's the white hair of poseidon Ebbing in the tide in some dead sea So you say it's some Shroud of Turin And the sun wore it white and the earth wore it thin Or the son wore it white and his faith wore it thin

Unravelling heavenward - it's saddled to tiny birds Or other such winged things Either way they are struggling Either way they are miniature Either way they're invisible But either way they're confused as hell would have them And the pattern of flight is chaotic and blind But it's right because chaos is yours and it's mine And chaos is luck, and luck: love and love: blind (so) ba da da The pattern of flihgt is chaotic and blind But it's right cause chaos is yours And chaos is mine, mine, mine And chaos is love and they say "love is blind"

But they're subject to hating us, just like the rest of us But just like the best of us They need the rest of us to stay alive So that's not where confusion lies That's not where an allusion to the fact that the truth Is just smoke in your eyes does lie No Confusion lies in which other wicked thing to lie with And if chaos is yours then chaos is mine And chaos is love and they say "love is blind" So I say oh, I see now, it's just smoke...

The song's open for interpretation. I personally think that he's stating that truth is a matter of perspective and can... cloud an issue (the truth is just smoke in your eyes) so you can't see clearly. People are willing to argue and fight over something - the exact same thing - just because they think the single entity is different. So perhaps it is about God. Different religions and even different branches of the same religion are willing to go to hell and back to fight over something they actually agree about; but because they are not willing to see the other's perspective, they are blind to the fact it's the same damn thing. And we all need each-other, fights or not.

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I think it's actually: So you say it's the Shroud of Turin- and The sun weren't white and his faith wore it thin-

This is another breathtaking song from Sunset Rubdown, though. I heartily recommend downloading it.

I actually thing the lines are:

"And chaos is yours, And chaos is mine And chaos is luck and like luck and love blind So I say, oh, I see now It's just smoke"

This is an amazing song. To me it is about religious fanatics of all faiths. He says, "So I say it's the white hair of Poseiden Ebbing the tide in some dead sea So you say it's ths shroud of Turin".
He is saying we all have different beliefs about God or higer powers. One may be Christian and another may be mythology. But all beliefs are bound by one common fact; they all base their beliefs on abstract "invisible" things like "wicked winged things" also known as angels or demons (depending on how you look at it). But then he says that all this leads us in chaotic lives but beware to write believers off as irratioinal because love is also chaotic and we all believe in love.

He goes on; "But they're subject to hating us Oh, just like the rest of us Oh, but just like the best of us They need the rest of us to stay alive" One group may be hated by another and wonder why, but if they look at them selves, they hate right back. And their leaders hate too! But if there were no believers, there would be no church or God HImself. He then ends the song by stateing. "So I say, oh, I see now It's just smoke" We are all fighting over things that don't really matter, getting obsessed an blinded by the smoke when there are more important things to get to.

These lyrics are pretty inaccurate. How is it possible to edit these lyrics? Do I have to edit the creator?

I mean message the creator.

in short, yes.

in the taming of the hands that came back to life he says do you think the second verse has to many violins

and in this song the second verse has violins so maybe he was mentioning this song

but i could be wrong just a guess