DON'T YOU PRETEND
THAT I'M NOT ALIVE
MY BONES NEVER ACHE
UNLESS SHE'S NEARBY
WHERE IS YOUR FACE
IN A SAFE OF DEAD TONGUES
I CAN SEE YOUR REFLECTION
IN YOUR TOTEM FIRST BORN
I SUSPECT
YOU'VE BEEN CARRYIN A PACK OF WOLVES
I REGRET
NOT KILLING WHILE I HAD THE CHANCE
MAYBE I WILL ALWAYS HAUNT YOU
MARK THE SOMNOLENCE WITH TRUTH
BETTER HANG YOUR DEAD PALACE
THAN HAVE A LIVING HOME TO LOSE
IN THE RIVER GANGES GOD DAMNS MY NAME
DON'T LET THESE HANDS
SHARPEN YOUR EYES
A RASP OF TAILS
Those are the lyrics as they appear in the booklet accompanying the album. Pretty sweet intro song, I must say. Overall, I don't think this albums as good as "France" or "De-Loused", but I still think it's a great album. "Frances the Mute" is a tough act to follow. It's unbelievable that "Amputechture" debuted at #9 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Charts, with basically no commercial radio or MTV exposure (I heard "Viscera Eyes" one time on a local, new rock/alternative station and that was it). The following week it dropped down to #63, which goes to show you that TMV has such a great fanbase that everyone went out and bought the album as soon as it dropped. It's a shame though, that Jon Theodore quit the band right around the time the album was released (it's true!).
Anyway, this entire album has a "religious" theme to it, but not necessarily a positive one. The lyrics to this particular song however, are a bit too cryptic for me to figure out right now. The only grasp I can get is from the line "I can see your reflection, in your totem first born"...I can see that meaning Christ on a cross. Cedrics lyrics are so amazing, you need to study them in order to truly understand them. I noticed that there is a reference to "She" in the first 2 songs...anyone have an idea who "She" is? I heard in an interview that this album is not necessarily one long story as their previous 2 LP's were. I don't know...I look forward to anyone elses insight on this.
@2bit_junkie
Aside from the question of what your expectation is in regards to positions on a sales chart to be able to tell, other than that the plague of commercialisation that it serves has not been abolished yet, consider whether it makes sense to pitch these three albums against each other. Albums which seem to have grown one from the other while also seeming to bleed into each other. I have had the ending of this song alone repeating as an endless stream in my mind for at least one and a half days now. There is something soothing to it...
@2bit_junkie
Aside from the question of what your expectation is in regards to positions on a sales chart to be able to tell, other than that the plague of commercialisation that it serves has not been abolished yet, consider whether it makes sense to pitch these three albums against each other. Albums which seem to have grown one from the other while also seeming to bleed into each other. I have had the ending of this song alone repeating as an endless stream in my mind for at least one and a half days now. There is something soothing to it as well as something mournful, a lamentation, which might be seen as a paradox. It is sometimes without or with less and sometimes accompanied by the comparably wonderful saxophone parts and their tendency towards intensification in a playful and perhaps spontaneous manner.
DON'T YOU PRETEND THAT I'M NOT ALIVE MY BONES NEVER ACHE UNLESS SHE'S NEARBY WHERE IS YOUR FACE IN A SAFE OF DEAD TONGUES I CAN SEE YOUR REFLECTION IN YOUR TOTEM FIRST BORN I SUSPECT YOU'VE BEEN CARRYIN A PACK OF WOLVES I REGRET NOT KILLING WHILE I HAD THE CHANCE
MAYBE I WILL ALWAYS HAUNT YOU MARK THE SOMNOLENCE WITH TRUTH BETTER HANG YOUR DEAD PALACE THAN HAVE A LIVING HOME TO LOSE IN THE RIVER GANGES GOD DAMNS MY NAME
DON'T LET THESE HANDS SHARPEN YOUR EYES A RASP OF TAILS
Those are the lyrics as they appear in the booklet accompanying the album. Pretty sweet intro song, I must say. Overall, I don't think this albums as good as "France" or "De-Loused", but I still think it's a great album. "Frances the Mute" is a tough act to follow. It's unbelievable that "Amputechture" debuted at #9 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Charts, with basically no commercial radio or MTV exposure (I heard "Viscera Eyes" one time on a local, new rock/alternative station and that was it). The following week it dropped down to #63, which goes to show you that TMV has such a great fanbase that everyone went out and bought the album as soon as it dropped. It's a shame though, that Jon Theodore quit the band right around the time the album was released (it's true!). Anyway, this entire album has a "religious" theme to it, but not necessarily a positive one. The lyrics to this particular song however, are a bit too cryptic for me to figure out right now. The only grasp I can get is from the line "I can see your reflection, in your totem first born"...I can see that meaning Christ on a cross. Cedrics lyrics are so amazing, you need to study them in order to truly understand them. I noticed that there is a reference to "She" in the first 2 songs...anyone have an idea who "She" is? I heard in an interview that this album is not necessarily one long story as their previous 2 LP's were. I don't know...I look forward to anyone elses insight on this.
@2bit_junkie Aside from the question of what your expectation is in regards to positions on a sales chart to be able to tell, other than that the plague of commercialisation that it serves has not been abolished yet, consider whether it makes sense to pitch these three albums against each other. Albums which seem to have grown one from the other while also seeming to bleed into each other. I have had the ending of this song alone repeating as an endless stream in my mind for at least one and a half days now. There is something soothing to it...
@2bit_junkie Aside from the question of what your expectation is in regards to positions on a sales chart to be able to tell, other than that the plague of commercialisation that it serves has not been abolished yet, consider whether it makes sense to pitch these three albums against each other. Albums which seem to have grown one from the other while also seeming to bleed into each other. I have had the ending of this song alone repeating as an endless stream in my mind for at least one and a half days now. There is something soothing to it as well as something mournful, a lamentation, which might be seen as a paradox. It is sometimes without or with less and sometimes accompanied by the comparably wonderful saxophone parts and their tendency towards intensification in a playful and perhaps spontaneous manner.