In my personal opinion, this song is about a boy who doesn't want to grow up (this supports the serial killer ideas that a lot have come to form).
"Train set and match spied under the blind
Shiny and contoured the railway winds
And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed
The hiss of the train at the railway head"
Could refer to real trains or a train set, I suppose. Playing with a family member. I remember when I was really young, the people I had the most contact with were relatives. So here's a young boy playing with a train set (at least I think) or listening to a train go by while playing with his cousin.
"Always the summers are slipping away"
He mourns the fact that summer is short and that ultimate freedom like that doesn't last forever."
"A 60 ton angel falls to the earth
A pile of old metal, a radiant blur
Scars in the country, the summer and her"
This could refer to his childish comprehension to a disaster or something. Maybe a vehicle crashes, but he calls it a '60 ton angel' with a 'radiant blur'. Then perhaps the next line refers to a disaster internally, to perhaps his mother or cousin?
"Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay"
Again, refering to the child's yearning to not live with rules or responsibility. Summer for all eternity.
"When I hear the engine pass
I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck"
Hearing the train go by? Kissing his mother?
"When the evening reaches here
You're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK"
This part I really think is about a child resisting his bedtime. 'When the evening reaches here, you're tying me up' goes quite easily. He refuses discipline to the point where he's 'dying of love'...his mother/father loves him, and realizes the natural order or responsibility and discipline, but the child lacks understanding. And it closes with 'It's ok'.
So this could be the second chapter of the In Absentia serial killer story - the boy's childhood. I think Blackest Eyes, with its references to a boy and mother, refer to the child's conception. Gravity Eyelids where he looses his virginity, Wedding Nails he gets "nailed down by marriage" and his problems really start. Prodigal starts his mid-life crisis and descent into insanity, where, in Strip the Soul, the floodgates finally break loose. And in Collapse the Light Into Earth, he is either dead or imprisoned and the story is over.
But of course, I haven't figured out The Sound of Muzak's place yet.
In my personal opinion, this song is about a boy who doesn't want to grow up (this supports the serial killer ideas that a lot have come to form).
"Train set and match spied under the blind Shiny and contoured the railway winds And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed The hiss of the train at the railway head"
Could refer to real trains or a train set, I suppose. Playing with a family member. I remember when I was really young, the people I had the most contact with were relatives. So here's a young boy playing with a train set (at least I think) or listening to a train go by while playing with his cousin.
"Always the summers are slipping away"
He mourns the fact that summer is short and that ultimate freedom like that doesn't last forever."
"A 60 ton angel falls to the earth A pile of old metal, a radiant blur Scars in the country, the summer and her"
This could refer to his childish comprehension to a disaster or something. Maybe a vehicle crashes, but he calls it a '60 ton angel' with a 'radiant blur'. Then perhaps the next line refers to a disaster internally, to perhaps his mother or cousin?
"Always the summers are slipping away Find me a way for making it stay"
Again, refering to the child's yearning to not live with rules or responsibility. Summer for all eternity.
"When I hear the engine pass I'm kissing you wide The hissing subsides I'm in luck"
Hearing the train go by? Kissing his mother?
"When the evening reaches here You're tying me up I'm dying of love It's OK"
This part I really think is about a child resisting his bedtime. 'When the evening reaches here, you're tying me up' goes quite easily. He refuses discipline to the point where he's 'dying of love'...his mother/father loves him, and realizes the natural order or responsibility and discipline, but the child lacks understanding. And it closes with 'It's ok'.
So this could be the second chapter of the In Absentia serial killer story - the boy's childhood. I think Blackest Eyes, with its references to a boy and mother, refer to the child's conception. Gravity Eyelids where he looses his virginity, Wedding Nails he gets "nailed down by marriage" and his problems really start. Prodigal starts his mid-life crisis and descent into insanity, where, in Strip the Soul, the floodgates finally break loose. And in Collapse the Light Into Earth, he is either dead or imprisoned and the story is over.
But of course, I haven't figured out The Sound of Muzak's place yet.