I think this is a very difficult song to understand. Maybe that's why no one has commented on it yet. I thought I'd make a few suggestions.
Could it be about orphans - "a child who had been left alone at birth"??? The blood ties that they long to find and how they search for common features to recognize themselves in someone.
Could it be also about death? Maybe the orphan dies on the street where he was "left to fend and taught to fight". The reason I am suggesting death is the past tenses throughout the song and the lines "Getting colder as the pictures go".
But then there's the verse:
"One body split and passed along the line
From the shoulder to the hip
I know these bones as being mine
And the curving of the lip"
I don't quite know what to make of it. I think that the song deserves some attention and more discussion. It would be great to understand it more.
I think this is a very difficult song to understand. Maybe that's why no one has commented on it yet. I thought I'd make a few suggestions.
Could it be about orphans - "a child who had been left alone at birth"??? The blood ties that they long to find and how they search for common features to recognize themselves in someone.
Could it be also about death? Maybe the orphan dies on the street where he was "left to fend and taught to fight". The reason I am suggesting death is the past tenses throughout the song and the lines "Getting colder as the pictures go".
But then there's the verse: "One body split and passed along the line From the shoulder to the hip I know these bones as being mine And the curving of the lip"
I don't quite know what to make of it. I think that the song deserves some attention and more discussion. It would be great to understand it more.