This song is about your final thoughts before death, and how you can choose them now. I think the first verse is the old man dying, with his most treasured memory replaying in his head. He chooses his "final scene." Guy's talking about how he wants this to be a perfect experience with a loved one, and he talks about saving a specific memory and keeping it precious in a metaphorical trinket until he dies. He even admits in the chorus that this is a complex idea to try to put in a song when he says "Is this making sense?"
I think you have this exactly right Leif.. I was going to put the exact same myself but then saw that you had written this first. I find this concept in the song very moving, and almost too real. This part is where it started to make sense to me and felt at it's most intense, the realisation - "Deep in the rain of sparks behind his brow Is a part replayed from a perfect day" makes one hope to never forget how precious these witnessed moments are.
I think you have this exactly right Leif.. I was going to put the exact same myself but then saw that you had written this first. I find this concept in the song very moving, and almost too real. This part is where it started to make sense to me and felt at it's most intense, the realisation - "Deep in the rain of sparks behind his brow Is a part replayed from a perfect day" makes one hope to never forget how precious these witnessed moments are.
Spot on I think. The last of men in hats is Guy's Grandad - Ted. Its Ted's last memories as he dies - when he was a young falling in love in June with a wireless playing. He choose this special memory and now it is playing back now in is brain ("the reign of sparks")
Spot on I think. The last of men in hats is Guy's Grandad - Ted. Its Ted's last memories as he dies - when he was a young falling in love in June with a wireless playing. He choose this special memory and now it is playing back now in is brain ("the reign of sparks")
This song is about your final thoughts before death, and how you can choose them now. I think the first verse is the old man dying, with his most treasured memory replaying in his head. He chooses his "final scene." Guy's talking about how he wants this to be a perfect experience with a loved one, and he talks about saving a specific memory and keeping it precious in a metaphorical trinket until he dies. He even admits in the chorus that this is a complex idea to try to put in a song when he says "Is this making sense?"
I think you have this exactly right Leif.. I was going to put the exact same myself but then saw that you had written this first. I find this concept in the song very moving, and almost too real. This part is where it started to make sense to me and felt at it's most intense, the realisation - "Deep in the rain of sparks behind his brow Is a part replayed from a perfect day" makes one hope to never forget how precious these witnessed moments are.
I think you have this exactly right Leif.. I was going to put the exact same myself but then saw that you had written this first. I find this concept in the song very moving, and almost too real. This part is where it started to make sense to me and felt at it's most intense, the realisation - "Deep in the rain of sparks behind his brow Is a part replayed from a perfect day" makes one hope to never forget how precious these witnessed moments are.
Spot on I think. The last of men in hats is Guy's Grandad - Ted. Its Ted's last memories as he dies - when he was a young falling in love in June with a wireless playing. He choose this special memory and now it is playing back now in is brain ("the reign of sparks")
Spot on I think. The last of men in hats is Guy's Grandad - Ted. Its Ted's last memories as he dies - when he was a young falling in love in June with a wireless playing. He choose this special memory and now it is playing back now in is brain ("the reign of sparks")