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Overture Meanings & Lyrics Discussion by all/your/friends | SongMeaningsEdited by evanreyes on April 30 2007, at 02:13AM" />
I think it is the perfect bridge between his last album, and the new one. "Wind in the Wires" was all about escapism, and had a lot of surpression underneath it. Here, he starts out by saying "So come on now, open wide, open up now", almost as if he is egging on his past self. The voice he takes, as well as the title, reminds me of the Emmcee of a carnival outside a closed curtain, lecturing an audience before the show starts. This is consistent with the frantic bells and fair-ground noises on tracks like the "magic position". It is also pretty creepy, playing with the image of a dentist asking his patient to "open up", as well as the sexual connotations of the phrase, but ultimately, the opening to the beautiful, kinetic, demented, and redeeming world that this new album is.<p><b><i>Edited by evanreyes on April 30 2007, at 02:13AM</i></b></p>
I think it is the perfect bridge between his last album, and the new one. "Wind in the Wires" was all about escapism, and had a lot of surpression underneath it. Here, he starts out by saying "So come on now, open wide, open up now", almost as if he is egging on his past self. The voice he takes, as well as the title, reminds me of the Emmcee of a carnival outside a closed curtain, lecturing an audience before the show starts. This is consistent with the frantic bells and fair-ground noises on tracks like the "magic position". It is also pretty creepy, playing with the image of a dentist asking his patient to "open up", as well as the sexual connotations of the phrase, but ultimately, the opening to the beautiful, kinetic, demented, and redeeming world that this new album is.<p><b><i>Edited by evanreyes on April 30 2007, at 02:13AM</i></b></p>