Wolf Am I! (And Shadow)

"white woolen locks" "Ego goes on and on"

quite frankly I don't know why you'd even attempt these lyrics they're too hard to even have gotten close to what they are correct. THis is one of my favorites on the album. Also try to hear sheep, or anything referencing one, during the "Chorus" and build around that, as Sheep and Wolf is prominent in this.

This is one of my least favorites on the album, actually. Which isn't to say it's bad.. just doesn't stand out to me. The beginning sounds like a rock-out part of a muse song.

Overall, I like it. The lyrics are pretty neat from what I can tell.

I can see this as being a single, it's really fun, it's got a great hook etc. plus it's really short yet sweet. Great song.

aaamazing song. great guitar and great chorus

Maybe this song is about how you feel invisible to the world because your beliefs seem so much more different.

This song to me seems to be talking of struggles with faith and material things. He doesn't feel real- he doesn't feel like he goes in with the sheep (the saved)- in fact, he feels like he is a wolf in sheep's clothing, so to speak. This may be due to his inability to convert someone important in his life (the first portion of the song especially seems to tell this to me). So he feels like he lacks the faith required. But in the end he knows that eventually all will be well, and on that day he won't have any clever things to say. What do you guys think?

identity. wolves and shadows are really appealing (dark, mysterious, stealthy) nouns, and it's even more appealing to pose as or become either. shadow just happens to be the narrator's choice in the end, despite it's cool factor: he is only an identity after these declarations, but he was even worse off before.

what's really going on here? what's in his head, what matters in how he portrays himself.

one day's the outer world's going to wash his feigned humility, his created identity away, revealing the nothing he began with.

the first verse defines what matters in that outer, a clue the narrator knew he should have paid attention to before. the 'it'.

I like the part: "No, "Shadow" I think is better, as I'm not so much something as the absence of something."

I know what you mean about this song not being quite like the others. When he introduced this song he claimed the drummer wrote it (explaining the rock-out part of the song, maybe?) but this also might explain the lyrics, so they might be the drummer's words instead of the singers... though this would be a feeling Aaron might have, I wouldn't think he'd have expressed it this way, given every other mewithoutYou song out there. But, as far as drummers writing songs goes, this song is pretty damn good.

i get the sense that he's talking about the carnal nature vs the spiritual nature. like our identity in the world and then our identity in christ and how we have to choose between them and what they both represent.