I hate when people don't bother to interpret the song, and just say "OMG TIHS IS SOOOO GOOD I HEART IT!!!" Waste of time, guys.
"Palimpsest" is the first clue to the song. It means something that is multi-layered, or multi-faceted. Comes from old wax tablets whose inscription could merely be removed and another added.
"Winter weather is not my soul -- but the biding for spring." This person is not the cold, desolate appearance that most see... underneath spring awaits to bloom, full of life.
"Why's everybody looking at me?" Yet this is all they see.
"Like I'm a southern bird that stayed north too long." He has been tempered and altered by the cold hardships in life. He no longer appears the same to others.
The last stanza is a bit perplexing to me. "Winter exposes the nests and I'm gone." It seems like there are parts of him that have died and he has to leave them behind.
I understand the feeling of no longer being recognized, no longer seemingly the same, no longer to be understood by others because life has changed you so.
if we think about the song and how things aren't what they seem, the exposing of the nest (referrant to origin) in winter is a reference to everyone seeing who he really is, the winter has exposed himself to be the "souther bird".
if we think about the song and how things aren't what they seem, the exposing of the nest (referrant to origin) in winter is a reference to everyone seeing who he really is, the winter has exposed himself to be the "souther bird".
I hate when people don't bother to interpret the song, and just say "OMG TIHS IS SOOOO GOOD I HEART IT!!!" Waste of time, guys.
"Palimpsest" is the first clue to the song. It means something that is multi-layered, or multi-faceted. Comes from old wax tablets whose inscription could merely be removed and another added.
"Winter weather is not my soul -- but the biding for spring." This person is not the cold, desolate appearance that most see... underneath spring awaits to bloom, full of life.
"Why's everybody looking at me?" Yet this is all they see.
"Like I'm a southern bird that stayed north too long." He has been tempered and altered by the cold hardships in life. He no longer appears the same to others.
The last stanza is a bit perplexing to me. "Winter exposes the nests and I'm gone." It seems like there are parts of him that have died and he has to leave them behind.
I understand the feeling of no longer being recognized, no longer seemingly the same, no longer to be understood by others because life has changed you so.
if we think about the song and how things aren't what they seem, the exposing of the nest (referrant to origin) in winter is a reference to everyone seeing who he really is, the winter has exposed himself to be the "souther bird".
if we think about the song and how things aren't what they seem, the exposing of the nest (referrant to origin) in winter is a reference to everyone seeing who he really is, the winter has exposed himself to be the "souther bird".