I feel fairly certain this song is actually addressed to the futility or existing-but-absent nature of G-d, a theme Krug has touched upon in other songs such as "Dear Sons & Daughters of Hungry Ghosts" ("G-d doesn't have the best goddamned plans, does he?").
Anyway, I think "the conductor" is G-d, and the "I won't blame you" part is between the speaker and the dead, leaving it at the feet of the "conductor."
I also think it's possible (though this might be a stretch) that the "you" is shifting in the previous verse. "If you (G-d) could make another one of you (the deceased) then you (G-d) wouldn't give the other one (the deceased) to me." Maybe? Yeah, I dunno.
The "you" at the end of the song again may be G-d, "doing something else that day" meaning on the day the person in the graveyard died, G-d was nowhere to be found to stop it.
Just a theory, of course. In any event, even if I've missed the mark entirely, I really love this song. One of their best, and sadly, least known tracks.
I feel fairly certain this song is actually addressed to the futility or existing-but-absent nature of G-d, a theme Krug has touched upon in other songs such as "Dear Sons & Daughters of Hungry Ghosts" ("G-d doesn't have the best goddamned plans, does he?").
Anyway, I think "the conductor" is G-d, and the "I won't blame you" part is between the speaker and the dead, leaving it at the feet of the "conductor."
I also think it's possible (though this might be a stretch) that the "you" is shifting in the previous verse. "If you (G-d) could make another one of you (the deceased) then you (G-d) wouldn't give the other one (the deceased) to me." Maybe? Yeah, I dunno.
The "you" at the end of the song again may be G-d, "doing something else that day" meaning on the day the person in the graveyard died, G-d was nowhere to be found to stop it.
Just a theory, of course. In any event, even if I've missed the mark entirely, I really love this song. One of their best, and sadly, least known tracks.