Yellowcake

after playing this song when i saw her, she said it was about an atomic bomb explosion. i know im supposed to imput my own interpretation of it, but i can't. haha. not after her saying that.

well that makes my correction all the more legit. the last line is:

"you will become the light you see."

god kaki king is beautiful. Her looks and her music.

god kaki king is beautiful. Her looks and her music.

Ah, I love this song. I never knew it was about an atomic explosion...haha.

yellowcake is an intermediary step in processing uranium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake

it sounds like "glittering stars are shards" -- but her poetry is so mysterious to me i don't think it even matters

the atomic bomb explosion makes so much sense! also, i hear "it can hardly be conceived" rather than "it can hardly become seen"

the "it" in "it appears" could be the appearance of the explosion the radiation will "come to you"

uranium is there, it is there in the earth like "diamonds deep" the processing of uranium "can hardly be conceived" but because the laws of physics are universal, and because atomic bombs are supposedly not that hard to build, an atomic bomb is still possible to make.

i see it as during the atomic bomb explosion, instead of being scared and curling up into a fetal position, rather to "open yourself" and accept your mortality, and "become the light you see"

The fourth to last line is not:

"It can hardly become seen".

It's:

"It can hardly be conceived."

I'd like to imagine that when she says atomic bomb explosion she meant it as a metaphor...