They took their armor off
Laid the weapons at your feet
Dashed up on the rocks
Fillings melted from the heat

That's like I read in the paper
Unlock the pen, unlock the pen yeah
Battle ice and make it a good one
Dairy-Ann, dairy ann yeah

Last light going down
Fallin'
We're stuck in traffic here
Last light going down
Fallin'
We'll watch the sun freeze

They took their armor off
Laid the weapons at your feet
Dashed up on the rocks
Fillings melted from the heat

It took the mail to fall in tow
It took the place of fallen snow
I don't know how it's frozen there
I don't know what it's frozen in

I found it in your file
That a sea was made to burn
Like a fire draped in white
Not a soul was kept inside
That makes it still alive
And I can never go home now
We're stuck in traffic here
And I can never go home again
We watch the sun freeze

(Repeat 2X)
It took the mail to fall in tow
It took the place of fallen snow
I don't know how it's frozen there
I don't know what it's frozen in

(Repeat 8X)
Feel so sick
Pay no price
Stray so far
Play no more


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    its not "Dairy-Ann" its Darien. Like Darien Barnes the football player nice try though

    x9x9x9x9x9on August 23, 2007   Link
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    All the lyrics I posted on this site were copied directly from a PDF file of the lyrics for Autumn of the Seraphs that Touch and Go Records published.

    What you mentioned makes sense though. Just a funny pun I suppose.

    peaceoutsideon August 27, 2007   Link
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    weird yeah i have those same lyrics but i never really looked for it on there

    x9x9x9x9x9on August 29, 2007   Link
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    just a wild guess but maybe its about John Andrew Barnes III who was a american first class private who fought in vietnam and died by jumping onto a grenade to protect his unit. i think the first line might be about how he had gunned down 9 enemy units. then when it says "last light going down we're stuck in traffic here" its referring to last chance of living but its gonna be tough to get out of here. and the whole snowy scene in this might just be because he had died in november. and then in the next set of lyrics "i found it in your file..." is referring to the fact that pretty much no one would make it out of vietnam. "that sea was made to burn like a fire draped in white, not a soul was left inside" the sea being vietnam covered in snow and no one was left alive inside so he knows now that he can never go home again after goin to vietnam.

    rbrindon September 02, 2007   Link
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    very well could be but i really think its about darien banres because they say darien. but your guess would be more accurate and a better story for the album i mean they have a song about larry walters

    x9x9x9x9x9on September 08, 2007   Link
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    very well could be but i really think its about darien banres because they say darien. but your guess would be more accurate and a better story for the album i mean they have a song about larry walters

    x9x9x9x9x9on September 08, 2007   Link
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    'We'll watch the sun freeze' - The intensity of those words is indescribable...

    HC_MOSon April 22, 2008   Link
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    I know! My mind explodes! it's one of those crazy images that makes you have to just stop and picture it in your head... but i kinda just love everytime they go "yeah" hah! it's so... funky? yea.. definitely

    iamwhoon September 09, 2008   Link
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    They seem to have a lot of those single lines that can make the mind wander. So crazy...

    HC_MOSon October 05, 2008   Link
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    gotta love pinback! awesome musicians and writers.

    i haven't had the time to actually sit down and figure the meaning, or what it means to me anyway, because i'm too busy just listening to how it hooks your ears and puts you in an ecstatic mood.

    xlagwagonsk8ron December 07, 2009   Link

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