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Aeolus Lyrics
Send me to the docks where we met
The disappointed bridge that haunts the egrets
Slip under the floorboards (my love)
With all his crooked fingers waving at us
Take me to the wave where I came
Flush into the world with blue skin choking
Little bits of diamond crushed up
For all the animals to eat on sunday
Peer into their insides (they glow)
With all the precious metals we dug up for
Circuit boards and spaceships
My fluorescent gods I've waited for this
Keep me in your warm arms (my love)
Cradle me while I unhinge my neurons
Power down the wind farm
All the animals are laughing at us
The disappointed bridge that haunts the egrets
Slip under the floorboards (my love)
With all his crooked fingers waving at us
Flush into the world with blue skin choking
Little bits of diamond crushed up
For all the animals to eat on sunday
With all the precious metals we dug up for
Circuit boards and spaceships
My fluorescent gods I've waited for this
Cradle me while I unhinge my neurons
Power down the wind farm
All the animals are laughing at us
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I'm not surprised that there aren't many comments on the songs from Diluvia; Weathervanes was much more narrative and Diluvia is more challenging to interpret. These songs have to be viewed from the general theme of the futuristic destruction of Earth (diluvia = flood, with its biblical implications): interstellar travel, robots developing emotions, transferring alien DNA into humans in ancient Egypt, and the like.
This song: really vague pronoun use, very hard to disentangle particulars. Generally, though, this song seems to be about robots evolving sentience and fleeing Earth.
Aeolus = god of the wind (given) Crooked fingers = kelp little bits of diamond crushed up = carbon animals = humans your warm arms = spaceships
Thank you for not getting too biblical in the only comment here. I really like your interpretations of different words, I was getting carbon from the second stanza, but kelp was quite a revelation. Not sure I'm totally sold on the last two, but it's a really interesting perspective. I like to think the song is a social commentary, as "Power down the wind farms" is the only reference to winds, and "My fluorescent gods I've waited for this" is the only reference to a god; it's as if to say they've moved on from a deification of nature and...
Thank you for not getting too biblical in the only comment here. I really like your interpretations of different words, I was getting carbon from the second stanza, but kelp was quite a revelation. Not sure I'm totally sold on the last two, but it's a really interesting perspective. I like to think the song is a social commentary, as "Power down the wind farms" is the only reference to winds, and "My fluorescent gods I've waited for this" is the only reference to a god; it's as if to say they've moved on from a deification of nature and now worship technology and science. Just a little creepy...still an amazing song.