In an interview, Mr Bird himself says: "The song MX Missiles is about how, when I was 19 or 20, my hometown was filled with bizarre, almost ritualistic suicides. I remember every week my mom would have another story, like "Remember so-and-so? He poured gasoline on himself and went up in flames.' It's kind of about how people seem very two-dimensional till they kill themselves and
then suicide makes them really seem alive."
Isn't it great how people can sense that through such beautiful obstrucity?
(Certainly clears up the inspiration for "conflagration.")
In an interview, Mr Bird himself says: "The song MX Missiles is about how, when I was 19 or 20, my hometown was filled with bizarre, almost ritualistic suicides. I remember every week my mom would have another story, like "Remember so-and-so? He poured gasoline on himself and went up in flames.' It's kind of about how people seem very two-dimensional till they kill themselves and then suicide makes them really seem alive."
Isn't it great how people can sense that through such beautiful obstrucity?
(Certainly clears up the inspiration for "conflagration.")