Wormwood, Radiation Lyrics
it's about staleness
On every page of every book could be a reference to Orchid - Chaos Ain't Me "Buy a book, read up, I'm on every page!" Did Will fall out with Jayson?
On every page of every book could be a reference to Orchid - Chaos Ain't Me "Buy a book, read up, I'm on every page!" Did Will fall out with Jayson?
it reads like a continuation of Woodlawn to me. Woodlawn is about the loss of someone close to them. "radiation" kind of suggests that this is the consequences of the same event. "woodlawn is a place of abandoned hopes & dreams, of always wilting flowers & letters never read"... the "woodlawn" is seemingly a personal image that they connect with the loss of this person, this suggests unreciprocated communication i.e. they desperately want to speak to this person again, but they're gone forever. they are "three years removed" from the loss, and life goes on, and they have managed to at very least regain composure and carry on with their life (the engine still hums), but they still haven't recovered from the trauma of the loss. the last three lines say it all really.
"i've had this dream before, i know just how it ends" - recurring dream of the incident in the line "It replays everyday and every time I yell the warning, 'please turn back!' " possibly?
Chernobyl is the Ukrainian word for wormwood.