Silent Flight Parliament

1. Strigiformes is the Order in which owls are biologically classified.
2. Owls are often renowned for their silence whilst taking flight.
3. A group of owls is referred to as a 'parliament'.

I just want to get the ball rolling on this song.

First:

Strigiformes is the Order in which owls (Family) fall under when you talk about them in a scientific, taxonomic rank way. So I think Strigformes is like a collective mind of Night Owls. Similar to the demon, Legion, from the bible. "

And He (Jesus) asked him (the man), "What is thy name?" And he answered, saying, "My name is Legion: for we are many.") Mark 5:9

Any thoughts?

Second:

The line:

"They will send us to warn, but that's part of the game as well"

makes me wonder who THEY are. Who is controlling the Night Owls?

Third:

The lines:

I still know what my mind tells you to do Cut out pieces to form new

The word "still" implies that he knows what to do despite something that could stop him, whether that thing be time or brain washing or something. Also, his mind is telling someone else to do something, whose mind is that?

Lastly

The lines:

Am I me What is he

Does anyone else hear it more like:

Am I HE (me) What is he

or is it just me?

Still trying to make out the rest of this song. Basically it sounds like the story here is:

1. Prospect #2 knows he must destroy the world (desperate measures. The box is a doom's day device created by the night owls)
2. The night owls are a collective mind, who can proccess incredible amounts of information from several sources at once.
3. Prospect #2 destroys the night owls 4.Prospect #1 awakes as the world is ending. He basically watches himself destroy everything.

Please help me make more sense of all this. Thanks ya'll

I feel like their should be another little ep explaining the history of the night owls, or maybe just a song. the whole concept is very interesting…

I am a rookie at this so this is definitely not spot on, just what I think…

It seems this is the final sort of "faceoff" between Prospect 2 and the Strigiformes. The head honcho (or maybe the collective of all of the owls as explained by BTDan) is explaining to Prospect 2 that this whole thing the two main characters went through was just a little experiment by them, that they were just lab rats to these higher being's plan (belittling them even more by describing them as "fucking weaklings").

I believe that the Strigiformes had told Prospect 2 to cut his skin off in Lay Your Ghosts to Rest (I still know what my mind tells you to do, Cut out pieces to form new). At this point the Prospect begins to rethink what/who he is (am I me, who is he, blah blah blah), not with respect to Prospect 1 but believing himself to have been a pawn in the Night Owls' experiment.

There's a box. As explained by other interpretations from other people on other songs, a "box" seems to symbolize a world or planet in the story, the Black Box being prospect 2's home after being destroyed (or before, not totally sure). The box mentioned here is Prospect 1's world. The Strigiformes are in higher power above this box, seeing as it is property of theirs.

this next part I'm kind of jaded on. I feel like Prospect 2 is now looking in the box, sort of monitoring Prospect 1's world like a god, searching for him. On the other hand, maybe he isn't actually "found" in a literal sense, Prospect 2 just knows that 1 is in the world. He says that the destruction of this world is for the best, but still I don't know why it's for the best. Maybe he is feeling vengeful because of the destruction of his own world, or maybe there is some legitimate reason I am missing.

It's nighttime. Everyone in prospect 1's world is sleeping and prospect 2 creeps in and "opens the valve"…

Right here I feel like this box is actually a ship, which would make sense in context of the last stanza with the whole jet propulsion disengage thing. BUT how would he have gotten onto said ship? like I said I'm still uncertain about this part.

Regardless, It's obvious that prospect 2 has decided to keep playing along with the strigiformes and destroys this…place like they wanted him to all along.

the part where Prospect 1 awakens is easier to interpret. when he wakes up from his sleep he hears laughter from this godlike being that is him. well it's not really him, but Prospect 2. this makes me think that prospect 2 had absolutely no remorse for destroying a whole civilization, completely succumbing to the rule of the Strigiformes, and possibly even becoming one of them. maybe this story was just an initiation for prospect 2 becoming one of these night owls?

In Melting City, there's a new entity called The Black Mask. this may be the thing that had destroyed prospect 2's planet, describing how he had felt like a robot doing the bidding of, supposedly, The Night Owl's. This gets me thinking, is there an endless cycle of these night owls destroying worlds at the hands of other beings? will there be someone who escapes the destruction of Prospect 1's world and starts the cycle all over again? or am I completely wrong and maybe Prospect 2 did end up ending the Strigiformes reign of terror?

this is just a clusterfuck of everything that's been running through my head after listening to this amazing album for a couple weeks. I would go on about other stuff from other songs but I don't feel like typing anymore and I have to piss.

don't hate

The Parallax II: Future Sequence full explanation

heavyblogisheavy.com/2012/07/31/prognotes-between-the-buried-and-mes-the-parallax-part-ii-hypersleep-dialogues/

it's very accurate (in my opinion) but its still a interpretation

What about Prospect 1 had Prospect 2's letter because he was actually the one who stole the letter from P2's wife ? That's maybe why, because of remorse, he tried to Swim to the Moon to leave this world behind ?