Astrological Straits

Man, did you work these out yourself or is there a lyric booklet to the CD or something? If so, it'd be great if you could share some more :)

this song always makes me cry: I interpret it as a song who talks about death and the fragility of human beings in general, especially in some lines of the chorus of the song, like\n"how fast can the grass grow?": for me it is a metaphor of time that passes inexorably, meanwhile "How far out did you wanna go?" for me means that no matter how far you go, sooner or later you will cease to exist\n\nwhen Zach in the 2nd verse says "It cut my throat on the curve of the earth\nTook me apart, see how it works", he is saying that sooner or later he too will die, using as a metaphor someone who "will cut his throat on the curve of the earth". \nthat "see how it works" indicates that sooner or later the listener will also die and "see how it works"\n"out in the era with eyes in the back of it\'s head": the era to which Zach refers could be childhood: when you are a child you are not afraid of death and you think about living your life carefree\n\n"Past your league, that force is free" can be a reference to the fact that when you die your soul escapes from your body and becomes free.\n\nthere is a session of the song that hits me the most, the one that starts at 4:04 and ends at 4:32: it\'s like the song also is "dying", the melody is more melancholic, eerie and sad, while the audio is being more "distorted", like it\'s a POV of a dying person who is slowing loosing grip from this world.\n\nat 6:00 starts a new session, that one with only the bass guitar and the drums: a very eerie session, it\'s like the person who the narrator of the song talks to has died and that music it\'s what now is surrounding him: eternal darkness.\n\nin the last chorus the "how fast can the grass grow? How far out did you wanna go?" is replaced with new sentences:\n"How fast can the past show?": obviously a reference to the fact that when you die your life flashes before your eyes, and the final "Where did everyone go?". now the narrator puts himself in the shoes of the person he was talking to and says this last sentence: now he is alone in the afterlife, no one is for him.\nthe song ends with the droning sound of the electric guitar (an obivious reference to the flatline, meaning that the person is died) and some voices in the distance (hear closely at 8:41), giving the idea of an hospital context, with the doctors and the persons who where there walking away from the room.\n\nand did you know what supports my interpretation the most? that this song is about death (according to my theory) and the next and last song on the album (Necromancer) is about a person being brought back from the dead.\nwow.