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A little narcotic warm on me
What will I do without the weight of you?
Funeral singers wail
Charity fails, whose child are you now?
The lighthouse keeper grazed the lip
Spread like a fog
Stood in the weather and prayed for a push
But doesn't take the jump again tonight
The book is aching for the tree
Return, return, return to me
All my friends, all my friends
All my friends are weeds and rain
All my friends are half-gone birds
Are magnets, all my friends are words
All my friends are funeral singers
Funeral singers, funeral singers wailing
A spark is aching for the light
Return, return, return tonight
All my friends, all my friends
All my friends are keeping time
All my friends have just quit trying
All my friends, all my friends
Are funeral singers, funeral singers
Funeral singers wailing
What will I do without the weight of you?
Charity fails, whose child are you now?
Spread like a fog
Stood in the weather and prayed for a push
But doesn't take the jump again tonight
Return, return, return to me
All my friends, all my friends
All my friends are weeds and rain
Are magnets, all my friends are words
All my friends are funeral singers
Funeral singers, funeral singers wailing
Return, return, return tonight
All my friends, all my friends
All my friends are keeping time
All my friends, all my friends
Are funeral singers, funeral singers
Funeral singers wailing
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This song makes a lot more sense after seeing the movie that accompanies this album.
The film was formulated after the album, and many of the allusions here aren't actually clarified in the film. It's a somewhat common theme of a disillusioned writer whose words have become a world rather than representing and indicating wordly action. The book is aching for the tree- the life and energy from which the material was made. The lighthouse keeper bit sounds as though he wishes for some impulse to jump. Either to prove motivation and impulse still exists outside of the numbing narcotic or to end the life left in him, as he has become an observer in...
The film was formulated after the album, and many of the allusions here aren't actually clarified in the film. It's a somewhat common theme of a disillusioned writer whose words have become a world rather than representing and indicating wordly action. The book is aching for the tree- the life and energy from which the material was made. The lighthouse keeper bit sounds as though he wishes for some impulse to jump. Either to prove motivation and impulse still exists outside of the numbing narcotic or to end the life left in him, as he has become an observer in his own world of his own word, as a lighthouse keeper observes the sailers of the ocean, and signals to them indications for their actions, which says nothing of the actions (or inactions) of the lighthouse keeper. All my friends are earth, all my friends are words all my friends are as inactive as I lost in their own illusions. Lost in mind. Inactive. Lifeless. Funeral singers.
This is a very good song that makes a lot more sense after seeing even the trailer of the movie.