No Transitory Lyrics

Lyric discussion by SPR 

Cover art for No Transitory lyrics by Alexisonfire

the party that says: "imagine if we lived, under the weather" is a reference to the Weather Underground, a militant activist group from the 60s and 70s. They took a violent approch towards acheiving social change (And this knife, this knife, It is my most important appendage) And were responsible for several bombings. The song is probalby written from the perspective of David Gilbert, one of the few members who was caught and is now in jail (Seems everything went wrong, We were discovered) There's an independent movie about it called The Weather Underground if you're interested