Tessellate

To me, "Broken hearts tessellate tonight" means that a pair of mismatched, unrelated broken hearts can come together and enjoy being whole, if for just a little while.

Whenever I hear the song and the chorus and the line broken hearts tessellate tonight. I think it's about people with broken hearts coming together and their past heart break helps sorta fit them together and make them right for eachother. Kind of a message of how every heartbreak gets you closer to the one. Also I like the part about running barefoot in the night. Kinda makes me think of the spontaneous whimsy of a new relationship.

Because dire times call for dire faces- I think this means that in hard times you need someone else to be in a hard time too, with you. So lovely dancer, call and answer- And this line refers to that too, I think 'lovely dancer' is just a term, not actually refering to a dancer, but I could be wrong. Trade our places in the night We're running barefoot, you and I- This, to me, is saying that both of them are in the same, kind of hurtful situation, together. This also refers back to the sticking with people in hard times. Dead lovers salivate- I don't think this means actual dead lovers, I think it means dead relationships, even though the relationship is over they still crave each other. Broken hearts tessellate tonight- And I think this is a symbolism for broken hearts being mended, fitting back together.

And all the kids who cut their knees on that old schoolyard fence Were holding out for posterity and self-defense We beat them down again There's no fun in playing cowboys for pretend We showed them what the backs of our hands is for The divide is clear in the coming year The rich will take the poor

This whole verse, I think, is about growing up. It talks about teaching kids to play' cowboys' for real, teaching the how to 'pimp slap' and teaching them that the 'rich' will always have power over the 'poor'. This is the saddest verse in my opinion, because it represents the loss of naivity and being exposed to the world, where hearts are broken and bad things happen everyday.

So, in total, I guess this song is about life, if I'm being very general. It is about hearts being broken and mended and growing up and all of that. I don't know quite how to explain it, but that's what it means to me.

I'm completely obsessed with TPC and this song I love it both versions. Yay I can't wait for the new album. Seeing them live again this month so excited.

i lied, i also love Tessellate, Harrowing, and Sixties just as much as In A Cave and Graves. Hell with it, i just adore this album. :)

"So lovely dancer, call a dancer" I think

I really couldn't overstate how good this song makes me feel. So I won't try. Haha.

This is my favorite song, along with Sixties Remake on the new album.

"We showed them what the backs of our hands is for"

I love this line so much, because it's implying a pimp slap

do you think this has anything to do with hurricane katrina? i guess it's kind of a stretch, but "tesselate" means to form multiple identical shapes, so broken hearts tessellate tonight could mean that there's a lot of them. and then the "weakened water gates" meaning the weak levies (sp.?). and "the divide is clear in the coming year, the rich will take the poor" meaning how the poor people didn't get the help they needed, which was a big issue. i dunno, i just saw some similarities, love some input!