It's about Barry Allen (The Flash) describing how time goes so slow for him because he's able to move so fast. My favourite line is:
'Now I never can explain by the clock that's on the Tower or the one that's in my brain'
'Aspect' in the first verse is actually 'Aspic' which is a jellied squid apparently. That piece of information is available from the bands website. I have no idea how it relates to the song.
See, the thing about aspic is that the jelly is see-through, so whatever is inside it (squid or whatever) looks like it's frozen. And that's how he percieves the world, like it's standing almost completely still. I just love that picture. It's my favourite part of the lyrics.
See, the thing about aspic is that the jelly is see-through, so whatever is inside it (squid or whatever) looks like it's frozen. And that's how he percieves the world, like it's standing almost completely still. I just love that picture. It's my favourite part of the lyrics.
Nice bit about the jelly being see-through/frozen. I was thinking about a slightly different aspect of the aspic (the phrase makes me smile) - remeber the old phrase 'it was like moving through jelly'? Imagine moving around in water....now imagine moving around in jelly/geletian/aspic. Slow. And he's "got time to think of the beauty of a thousand variations of the beating of a wing of a hummingbird suspended in the aspic of the world moving slower than molasses" there is motion involved...just real slow. Time enough to predict any number of outcomes - any thousand variations of the future....
Nice bit about the jelly being see-through/frozen. I was thinking about a slightly different aspect of the aspic (the phrase makes me smile) - remeber the old phrase 'it was like moving through jelly'? Imagine moving around in water....now imagine moving around in jelly/geletian/aspic. Slow. And he's "got time to think of the beauty of a thousand variations of the beating of a wing of a hummingbird suspended in the aspic of the world moving slower than molasses" there is motion involved...just real slow. Time enough to predict any number of outcomes - any thousand variations of the future.
It's about Barry Allen (The Flash) describing how time goes so slow for him because he's able to move so fast. My favourite line is:
'Now I never can explain by the clock that's on the Tower or the one that's in my brain'
'Aspect' in the first verse is actually 'Aspic' which is a jellied squid apparently. That piece of information is available from the bands website. I have no idea how it relates to the song.
See, the thing about aspic is that the jelly is see-through, so whatever is inside it (squid or whatever) looks like it's frozen. And that's how he percieves the world, like it's standing almost completely still. I just love that picture. It's my favourite part of the lyrics.
See, the thing about aspic is that the jelly is see-through, so whatever is inside it (squid or whatever) looks like it's frozen. And that's how he percieves the world, like it's standing almost completely still. I just love that picture. It's my favourite part of the lyrics.
Nice bit about the jelly being see-through/frozen. I was thinking about a slightly different aspect of the aspic (the phrase makes me smile) - remeber the old phrase 'it was like moving through jelly'? Imagine moving around in water....now imagine moving around in jelly/geletian/aspic. Slow. And he's "got time to think of the beauty of a thousand variations of the beating of a wing of a hummingbird suspended in the aspic of the world moving slower than molasses" there is motion involved...just real slow. Time enough to predict any number of outcomes - any thousand variations of the future....
Nice bit about the jelly being see-through/frozen. I was thinking about a slightly different aspect of the aspic (the phrase makes me smile) - remeber the old phrase 'it was like moving through jelly'? Imagine moving around in water....now imagine moving around in jelly/geletian/aspic. Slow. And he's "got time to think of the beauty of a thousand variations of the beating of a wing of a hummingbird suspended in the aspic of the world moving slower than molasses" there is motion involved...just real slow. Time enough to predict any number of outcomes - any thousand variations of the future.