okay, so here I go juts spouting random nonsense until it makes some sense. So, bible-black predawn. bible-black, aren't most bibles black on the cover? like the old school bibles and stuff you find in the churches and stuff, those ones. That says to me "no deeper than the cover" right? so in the morning when nothing goes deeper than it actually is, I think it's antithetic to the song, because the whole song runs entirely deeper than just random words and interjections to himself. so keeping with the theory of the bible being the "holy moral book" that you live by for all those religious people, so only going to the black part of the bible is just saying the bible. like saying you're religious but really you follow none of the teachings of the bible, right? So let's interpret that as basically immoral. So, she's the quiet domino, and dominoes are black, right? so if this "quiet domino" also happens to be bible-black, that would make her, as far as my reasoning goes, no deeper than her cover and pretty much immoral, right? So she's been having at him this whole "relationship" or whatever they're up to... so he wants to get back at her for what she's done, hence, trying to break her heart.
BUT HE CAN'T.
The lines like "forgetting tongue-tied lightning" and most importantly "take off your band-aid" because he can't stand the fact they're fighting over his dumb little revenge schemes... "bury me now" shows his remorse for his "master scheme" of the whole thing to hurt. see, he doesn't believe in any of it, he says so himself. No touchdowns. He doesn't want to screw around with it, he's flogging the dead horse, and keeps wondering why he's sucked back into his love hate relationship. That's about as much as I'm in the mood to think about right now. What do you think of how Tweedy's voice changes in the final verse, it gets all like distancey and has the weird synth scratching stuff in the background... that change in vocal style has to have something to do with the meaning of the verse... but yeah. :D
okay, so here I go juts spouting random nonsense until it makes some sense. So, bible-black predawn. bible-black, aren't most bibles black on the cover? like the old school bibles and stuff you find in the churches and stuff, those ones. That says to me "no deeper than the cover" right? so in the morning when nothing goes deeper than it actually is, I think it's antithetic to the song, because the whole song runs entirely deeper than just random words and interjections to himself. so keeping with the theory of the bible being the "holy moral book" that you live by for all those religious people, so only going to the black part of the bible is just saying the bible. like saying you're religious but really you follow none of the teachings of the bible, right? So let's interpret that as basically immoral. So, she's the quiet domino, and dominoes are black, right? so if this "quiet domino" also happens to be bible-black, that would make her, as far as my reasoning goes, no deeper than her cover and pretty much immoral, right? So she's been having at him this whole "relationship" or whatever they're up to... so he wants to get back at her for what she's done, hence, trying to break her heart. BUT HE CAN'T. The lines like "forgetting tongue-tied lightning" and most importantly "take off your band-aid" because he can't stand the fact they're fighting over his dumb little revenge schemes... "bury me now" shows his remorse for his "master scheme" of the whole thing to hurt. see, he doesn't believe in any of it, he says so himself. No touchdowns. He doesn't want to screw around with it, he's flogging the dead horse, and keeps wondering why he's sucked back into his love hate relationship. That's about as much as I'm in the mood to think about right now. What do you think of how Tweedy's voice changes in the final verse, it gets all like distancey and has the weird synth scratching stuff in the background... that change in vocal style has to have something to do with the meaning of the verse... but yeah. :D