In a lot of Flake Music / Shins songs love and friendship are transcendant, escapes, adventures. the imagery is flight and floating (From Girl Inform Me: "How else could you tie my head to the sky?").
Then the breakups are messy, devastating. The imagery is "severed and untied" or losing a part of yourself (like a phantom limb).
"the weird divide" is an amazing song title and that phrase also appears in the song Sphagnum Esplanade: "Far better a find
it is if we try to span the weird divide
With no real rationale
we step out of bounds and think we've escaped the lies"
From Fighting in a Sack: "Walking a bridge with weakening cables" and "Marionettes on weakening cables/Huddled up with fear and hate/because they know their fate/ and it's a lot to put them through"
From Pink Bullets: "When our kite lines first crossed
We tied them into knots
And finally fly apart
We had to cut them off" and lastly, "Two loose kites falling from the sky
Drawn to the ground and an end to flight"
From Past and Pending: "We settle down to cut ourselves apart" and "and lose yourself in lines dissecting love".
another breakup song by the master.
In a lot of Flake Music / Shins songs love and friendship are transcendant, escapes, adventures. the imagery is flight and floating (From Girl Inform Me: "How else could you tie my head to the sky?").
Then the breakups are messy, devastating. The imagery is "severed and untied" or losing a part of yourself (like a phantom limb).
"the weird divide" is an amazing song title and that phrase also appears in the song Sphagnum Esplanade: "Far better a find it is if we try to span the weird divide With no real rationale we step out of bounds and think we've escaped the lies"
From Fighting in a Sack: "Walking a bridge with weakening cables" and "Marionettes on weakening cables/Huddled up with fear and hate/because they know their fate/ and it's a lot to put them through"
From Pink Bullets: "When our kite lines first crossed We tied them into knots And finally fly apart We had to cut them off" and lastly, "Two loose kites falling from the sky Drawn to the ground and an end to flight"
From Past and Pending: "We settle down to cut ourselves apart" and "and lose yourself in lines dissecting love".