Electrified and lit up by an outline of herself
Smiling now as only she can be.
She said I made some new connections to astound them all
In ways we've never dreamed about
Her lovely hand is glowing from the light inside itself
From soaking in the esters stacked for miles on a single shelf
Holding my eyes still so she can see
If all the superundercover custom hybrids got to me
It's too much
You're too late
I want to see it all again
She says eep this benzene ring around your finger
And think of me when everything you wanted starts to end
And I saw living clusters form in pools beneath her feet
Invertebrates that only she can see
And I said what on earth are all these ampuls for
She says exactly, we're not gunna wait around here anymore
Systems back down slow, watch the dust cloud resend
And I will keep you. I will keep you till the end
Set your head down low, watch my ears ring
It's eerie and it's awesome,
How connected two pods scattered on the surface can become,
Lazy into one.

He knows lightning kills the other,
She can't stand to watch his petals fall,
It's better when cascades become like us all.

Afternoon a golden disengagement leaves a woman,
With a household left to fill.
Sit, and be still, send the voltage cross his ticker,
Watch the stars they start to flicker, and one by one levels
Fall.

Another drink my love, and make it tall enough
So I can stand on it and see, all you've done for me.
A world of curves and lines electric,
Remember how you strung the colored lights, from Christmas tree
To me?


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    Ignore the first part, which are actually the lyrics to "The Scientists" on their second album, "Downward is Heavenward."

    I agree with the last comment. The whole album "You'd Prefer an Astronaut" follows a lyrical concept, chronologically from the start of a relationship to the end. This song is very dense with imagery, and an almost sonnet-like intensity, so any attempt at trying to dissect the meaning of each line wouldn't yield much. The real depth of the song is taken as a whole. I think at this point the narrator in the relationship is contemplating the idea of monogamy with the "She" of the record. The narrator has a strange idea that it's some sort of kinetic and electric energy which has bonded the two together. The rest of the lyrics follow his thoughts about the dissipation of this energy. But the last stanza upends this thought (another trick of the sonnet) with a beautiful consolation on all the memories created and how "she" has done so much by changing his view to one more expanded.

    I don't know. I've thought a lot about the lyrics to this record. Matt Talbot is certainly a poet. One of the few rock bands I could say that definitively about the lead singer. I've related to the whole experience of "You'd Prefer an Astronaut." To take such a common human experience (the beginnings and dissolution of a relationship, all the things you learn and concluded from it) and transform it into something powerful because of it's uniqueness, takes a very brave and exacting artist (or group of artists in this case: Hum easily has some of the best musical chops of any 90s rock group).

    But man, those lyrics. Timeless.

    mylumon November 16, 2012   Link

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