Sing! Captain

Here's my guess at the proper lyrics:

There's a town, just a little town Ringed in cloud, a hollow sound When our lovers gather round And if they're cold Then they're cold Feed them wire, feed them chrome We hate this place here It's our home, it's our home

And your call collapsing treasons, I'd return them back to sound With the torches in our hands we will reduce it to the ground

I stood outside in the bright black night Beneath their buzzing power lines And I saw a number in the sky, in the sky And if there's a God, he's a little gone And he holds you closely inside these walls But he hates his babies most of all

And your call-collapsing treasons I'd return them back to sound With our torches in our hands we will reduce it to the ground In the parliament of days the little hands are reaching out You can try and try and try but baby there's no way around

Sing Captain Sing out loud Sing, but we're Earthbound Sing Captain Sing out loud Sing Captain Earthbound

Plague Park (album this is from) is about the experience of living in the city and the country (big and little places) and how both can be kind of alienating. This song kind of melts those two places together and at the end tries to escape through the figure of the seacaptain, but it aint happening obviously.

Also, I think it goes "Sing captain / Sing out loud / Sing, but we're earthbound / Sing captian / Sing out loud / Sing captain / Earthbound

i like this song it has a cheerfull yet kind of sad quality too it, like life isn't going well but im gonna be happy anyway

I agree that the song could possibly be outlining the disparities between the city and the periphery, but i think it is more about the city growing into the rural areas, and taking it over. SOME REVISIONS TO THE LYRICS:

There's a town, just a little town Raining cloud, a hollow sound When our LOVERS gather round And if they're cold Then they're cold Feed them WIRE, feed them chrome We hate this place here It's our home, It's our home

And your car-collapsing trees and I'd return them back to sound With the torches in our hands we will reduce it To the ground.. rest is ok.. i think

I think its kinda like saying there's beauty in the grime and muck of the city like in the line

I stood outside in the bright black night Beneath their buzzing power lines And I saw a number in the sky, in the sky

i think hes talking about neon lights of a city even tho they very well could be advertising something stingy like a liquor store

this song is also kinda of reminiscent to the theme of modern world

"Feed them WIRE, feed them chrome"

It sounds pretty clearly like an r opposed to an n, it also makes the second part make more sense.

I've always thought of farm animals when listening to this. I know it's not about them but God is tiny and really hates his babies.