This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
It's gone away, it's gone away, it's gone for good
Animal spirits come calling me home
Through the tunnels of brilliant light
The magnet of wisdom is pulling
Burrowing faster, the fabric of time
No escape
Binding spirits
No escape
Trapped in time space
Rapid descendants, the wormhole is empty
The center of khlysty surrounds me
The fire is dancing in a silvery sheet of breath
Black robe, necromancing
Summon the soul of the specter
No escape
Binding spirits
No escape
Trapped in time space
Fire in the eye
Realm of mystic majesty
No escape
Binding spirits
No escape
Trapped in time space
Fire in the eye
Realm of mystic majesty
Animal spirits come calling me home
Through the tunnels of brilliant light
The magnet of wisdom is pulling
Burrowing faster, the fabric of time
No escape
Binding spirits
No escape
Trapped in time space
Rapid descendants, the wormhole is empty
The center of khlysty surrounds me
The fire is dancing in a silvery sheet of breath
Black robe, necromancing
Summon the soul of the specter
No escape
Binding spirits
No escape
Trapped in time space
Fire in the eye
Realm of mystic majesty
No escape
Binding spirits
No escape
Trapped in time space
Fire in the eye
Realm of mystic majesty
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Divinations Lyrics as written by Troy Jayson Sanders Brann Timothy Dailor
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Here, the protagonist gets sucked into a wormhole and gets to the Khlysts, a russian sect:
"The wormhole is empty The center of Khlysty surrounds me"
and appears in a middle of a ritual, like he was summoned by the cult members:
"The fire is dancing in the silvery sheet of breath Black robe Necromancing Summon the soul of the spectre"
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Fantastic song!
Making the wait for the rest of the album even more painful than it already was...
Fucking stupendous song right here. It's short, brilliant, and sums up what Mastodon has evolved into. Seems like the Blood & Thunder of Crack the Skye, but i haven't heard the album (yettt)
could be a little into it, but if this is the opening track, it's definitely about the person's first experience out of body. into space and such.
Bandildo has it.
Bandalido, as said before, you hit the nail on the head. In addition to this, in reference to Brann's sister's story, I think this song is her being so enraptured by hear thoughts of suicide that she hears her "animal spirits calling her home"
No escape
There's no escaping from her predicament or her "need" to kill herself.
Fire in the eye
Hatred, as well as determination
Mystic realm of Majesty
The uncertainty of death
These can't be all the lyrics. That's retarded. But I'm The First To Comment This Brand New Song!!!! XD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is about the czars tripping on magic mushrooms and recieving divinations from them. the black robe necromancing is him seeing the forthsite of the people who are trying to kill him because when your tripping the scariest things are the police and the undead.
Yeah, only not at all. Bandido's got it right. And for the record, necromancy is divination (ie, telling the future) by consulting the spirits of the dead. They're not singing about World of Warcraft, there guy.