East Enders Wives

I think its "lets give up sacrifice next lent" and "im still counting on you like an invisible rosary" sounds like he adds an extra syllable, but rosaryness doesn't make much sense. i think he might just be adding a quick "and as" making the next line: "and as the past and all plans are undone" like mroldan1993 said.

I can't quite piece this one together, they said it's about a runaway rabbit and his love affair with a lusty soothsayer... but i don't think i'm quite getting it. Anybody have any interpretations? I can't understand the hushed background vocals, I wonder if those lines would clear things up. Anyway... can't wait for the cd and the full lyrics!

Corrections from lyric booklet. The line and stanza scheme is makeshift as the lyric booklet just has all the lines together in one big paragraph.

We met by chance along the Roe River side our salt fire danced as our tea leaves dried she hatched our plans in the atmospheric tides

Fortune Teller: Let's give up 'sacrifice' next Lent" Rabbit: Eh, that joke's long since been spent!"

But as the Fool on the bagpipes played we kept cool in the parasol shade your thumb on my page at my tender age east enders wives Then hidden in the boxthorn vine We grew old as the foxtail pine sheep in the fold gilding our gold sipping our milk and water lives she packed our bags some arbitrary time (by the time he wakes up I'll be gone) then waved like a flag from the White Star Line (Queensland our next stop, he'll be gone) unmoored unwell though I seldom elegize (you still see who I once was) we've both been untrue but i'm still counting on you like an invisible rosary And as the past and our plans are undone, slowly sank like the shipwrecked sun bridges and boats burning them both burned up the sky

choir sang as the Black Birch fell sorrow rang like a church yard bell an axe to the trees smoke for the bees all our dads died.

East Enders Wives (not sure about some lines near the end)

We met by chance on the row riverside our songfire danced as our tea leaves dried she hatched our plans in the atmospheric tide said lets give up sacrifice next lend

so as the pull on the bagpipes played we kept cool in the parasol shade your thumb on my page at my tender age east enders wives

Then hidden in the box storm blind We grew old as the foxtail pine sheep in the fold gilding our gold sipping our milk and water lines

she packed our bags some arbitrary time then waved like a flag from the white star line unmoored unwell though i seldom elegize weve both been untrue but im still counting on you like an invisible rosaryness

the past and our plans are undone slowly sank like a shipwrecked sun *bridges and boats turning them both burned up the sky

choir sang as the black birch fell sorrow rang like the church yard bells *axed the trees so for the bees all our dads died

It's "smoke to the bees"

this is so beautiful! I'm not too sure about the meaning yet, but I love this part "She packed our bags on arbitrary times And waved like a flag from the white star line On more than will though I self-apologize We both been untrue but I'm still counting on you Like an invisible rosary

And as the past and all plans are undone Slowly sank like a shipwrecked sun Ridges and ropes, burning man throats Burned up the sky

Fires hang as the black birds fell Sorrow rang like the church-yard bells And as the trees smoking living And all our dads died "

I cannot wait for this new album.

this song is growing on me. it's soothing in a melancholic way. "And as the past and all plans are undone slowly sank like a shipwrecked sun."

I updated what I think the lyrics are, and wow I was wrong the first time (they were based off a live performance).

If anyone has any fixes let me know so I can update them

As far as the meaning goes, apparantly the song is about a fortune teller and a rabbit falling in love, but from the lyrics its hard to figure it out. Does this song somehow represent Aaron and Amanda's relationship? That's what Fox's Dream was about.

Apparently, some fortune tellers use rabbits as part of their schtick. http://www.travelbelles.com/2010/09/01/istanbuls-bosphorus-bunny-fortune-teller/

the White Star Line is the cruise company that owned the Titanic, so saying that she waved like a flag from the White Star Line means that she is leaving and is never coming back.

This sheds some light:

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2012/07/aaron_weiss_mewithoutyou_ten_stories_east_enders_wives_interview.php