Putting on my power, righteous as a rose
Dynamite the mountain, now I'm walking up the road
The love we made at gunpoint wasn't love at all
The dancing in the valley, the moons is the mirrored ball
Blew open my mind, now it's an empty room
Swinging in the hammock, dogs are walking across the roof
I watch you braid your hair, you're from another time
When the earth wasn't so angry
And god was on our side

Searching west and east
And all points in-between
Underneath the lines of thought
You're there and then you're not

The mayans stole tomorrow, hid it underground
We come with heavy magnets but it still hasn't been found
I'm sweating out my secrets in the temazcal
They're screaming in the calle that there are stars about to fall

Looking through the trees
Cities and the seas
Things we've seen
Ovnis on the lawn
They're there and then they're gone
There and then they're gone

Searching west and east
All points in between
And underneath the hand of god
You're there and then you're not


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Temazcal Lyrics as written by Conor M Oberst

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    'the love we made at gunpoint wasn't love at all'

    I love this line, I'm not sure how to apply it to my other theories about this song though.. Maybe it's just another thought mixed in. That being forced to do something doesn't validate the action. It could be trying to give artificial love to the world or god or something, but for unjustified reasons.

    'i watch you braid your hair, you're from another time when the earth wasn't so angry and god was on our side'

    I see this as before the earth was so manipulated by man, and this person, probably a girl, braiding her hair is from that time without the excess people search for now. From a simpler time perhaps.

    'looking through the trees cities and the seas things we've seen ovnis on the lawn they're there and then they're gone there and then they're gone'

    End of the world, all these things disappearing. Or maybe it's just that they're hard to see or understand? Like if you look from the simpler time viewpoint like that girl braiding her hair when god was on our side, a viewpoint from from a forest, through the trees, then other irrelevant products of man's ego disappear like cities? But seas are natural.. hm someone else can perfect this.

    'the mayans stole tomorrow, hid it underground' and 'they're screaming in the calle that there are stars about to fall'

    From these lines I infer the 2012 Mayan prophecy of the end of the world. They stole tomorrow, the future, and stars about to fall is the destruction of the world which i think Nostradamus describes of the world's poles switching or something. Calle in spanish means street, road also.

    'searching west and east all points in between and underneath the hand of god you're there and then you're not '

    Someone's either looking for this person who's underneath the hand of God, or is there. Underneath the hand of god could be portrayed as protection. Sometimes there(under protection, being earthly) and sometimes not(not under god, indulging in wants, desires, etc). Another interpretation is exactly the opposite of said protection. underneath the hand of god, like the destruction of the world under the hand of god. You're thre and then you're not, you're alive, then you're dead. Idk there's alot of ways to take this.

    lisasonodaon January 23, 2010   Link

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