This song holds true to (if not sets the prescident for) the theme of this album: breaking up. While other more intense songs like "lovebites and razorlines" and "motel of the white locust" focus primariliy on the rage and resentment that results from a bad break up, "when 1-8" instead looks more closley at confusion, pain and a sense of loss. I believe that the title of the song refers to the infinity symbol ( 8 ); two interlocking, unending circles breaking apart into two seperate units (not so concidentally forming zeroes). Songwriting at it's finest.
This song holds true to (if not sets the prescident for) the theme of this album: breaking up. While other more intense songs like "lovebites and razorlines" and "motel of the white locust" focus primariliy on the rage and resentment that results from a bad break up, "when 1-8" instead looks more closley at confusion, pain and a sense of loss. I believe that the title of the song refers to the infinity symbol ( 8 ); two interlocking, unending circles breaking apart into two seperate units (not so concidentally forming zeroes). Songwriting at it's finest.