In HOUDINI, the barrier is between this world and the next. [Houdini's wife, Wilhelmina Beatrice (Bess) Rahner, worked as his stage assistant.]
The first verse is her encounter with a charlatan medium. She recognizes the fakery and breaks the circle.
Then we are back with her and Houdini, and ironically let into their fakery - how she would lovingly pass the key to him to unlock the chains.
Then we forward to a 'genuine' medium, one she believes (Ford?); and she is filled with Houdini's magic once again. (She has quite forgotten that their earthly escapology was an act!) She believes (and so do we!) that he has escaped the silence of Eternity...
His heroic breakthrough moves her to remember the queues of people lining up hoping to see Houdini drown/fail... But queue/cue sound the same, so we also hear a reference to her anxiety while Houdini was in the tank... 'I'd catch the cues' ... And this leads us into the verse dealing with Houdini's final earthly performance...
Kate's vocals are amazing and the song is eternally fantastic!
In HOUDINI, the barrier is between this world and the next. [Houdini's wife, Wilhelmina Beatrice (Bess) Rahner, worked as his stage assistant.]
The first verse is her encounter with a charlatan medium. She recognizes the fakery and breaks the circle. Then we are back with her and Houdini, and ironically let into their fakery - how she would lovingly pass the key to him to unlock the chains.
Then we forward to a 'genuine' medium, one she believes (Ford?); and she is filled with Houdini's magic once again. (She has quite forgotten that their earthly escapology was an act!) She believes (and so do we!) that he has escaped the silence of Eternity...
His heroic breakthrough moves her to remember the queues of people lining up hoping to see Houdini drown/fail... But queue/cue sound the same, so we also hear a reference to her anxiety while Houdini was in the tank... 'I'd catch the cues' ... And this leads us into the verse dealing with Houdini's final earthly performance...
Kate's vocals are amazing and the song is eternally fantastic!