sometimes people's comments on songs from "Reconstruction Site" show that they haven't listened to the entire cd... because, even though the songs can stand alone, they're extraordinary together.
considering that the cd is eventually building up to the death of someone. someone who knows they're going to die, soon enough.
(of course we all know we're going to die, but it's been made very real to this person)
the cd takes you through the journey of the feelings that one might feel if placed in the situation. it's all, like all weakerthans songs, very personal.
remembering and wishing and regretting and hoping and knowing you have to get on with it and be happy in the time you have left.
and it's also about the feelings anyone close to this person is feeling, watching their friend change only to die.
death is one of the most harrowing things to think about - but if anything has the power to change people, death does.
the significance it plays in Transcendentalism and Romanticism and human life is so dear to me.
Consider poems such as "Ulysses" and "In Memoriam" by Alfred Lord Tennyson and "And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair" by Lord Byron.
AND! Reconstruction Site by the Weakerthans.
Death is something that ties all humans together - no matter what they believe, how they've lived/are living, what they aspire to be, what they hate or what they love. We all have death.
We will all one day die, we will all one day be returned to the earth in order to sustain it in the same way that it kept us alive.
And we'll all be afraid of death sometimes. and we'll all be sad because of death sometimes. and we'll all feel unmistakably alive because of death sometimes.
this song (this album) expresses that in such a beautiful and precious, thought-provoking, life-changing way.
sometimes people's comments on songs from "Reconstruction Site" show that they haven't listened to the entire cd... because, even though the songs can stand alone, they're extraordinary together.
considering that the cd is eventually building up to the death of someone. someone who knows they're going to die, soon enough. (of course we all know we're going to die, but it's been made very real to this person) the cd takes you through the journey of the feelings that one might feel if placed in the situation. it's all, like all weakerthans songs, very personal. remembering and wishing and regretting and hoping and knowing you have to get on with it and be happy in the time you have left. and it's also about the feelings anyone close to this person is feeling, watching their friend change only to die.
death is one of the most harrowing things to think about - but if anything has the power to change people, death does. the significance it plays in Transcendentalism and Romanticism and human life is so dear to me. Consider poems such as "Ulysses" and "In Memoriam" by Alfred Lord Tennyson and "And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair" by Lord Byron. AND! Reconstruction Site by the Weakerthans.
Death is something that ties all humans together - no matter what they believe, how they've lived/are living, what they aspire to be, what they hate or what they love. We all have death. We will all one day die, we will all one day be returned to the earth in order to sustain it in the same way that it kept us alive. And we'll all be afraid of death sometimes. and we'll all be sad because of death sometimes. and we'll all feel unmistakably alive because of death sometimes.
this song (this album) expresses that in such a beautiful and precious, thought-provoking, life-changing way.