Still got the place to myself I see...from what I've heard, Steven Battelle wrote this song whilst in Rome, hence he was "standing on the ruin of a beautiful empire" at the time. Now, I know he went on an epic journey all over the place, and it seems like he arrived at the end of the journey in Rome (does the album go in chronological order of Battelle's journey? His journey attempting to say no to the world?) and he seems to be in a reflective mood, like he's reached the end of his journey and has decided to start LostAlone of the back of the songs he's written, "This is the road, the path that I chose". Yeah, he got to Rome, and decided the time was right for LostAlone and he decided there and then that that was what he wanted to do and he's never gonna fall asleep and all that again. There are a lot of references to music like prose, rhyme, musical fracture, melodically capture etc so it seems like he decided what he wanted to do with his life and the band in Rome.
Still got the place to myself I see...from what I've heard, Steven Battelle wrote this song whilst in Rome, hence he was "standing on the ruin of a beautiful empire" at the time. Now, I know he went on an epic journey all over the place, and it seems like he arrived at the end of the journey in Rome (does the album go in chronological order of Battelle's journey? His journey attempting to say no to the world?) and he seems to be in a reflective mood, like he's reached the end of his journey and has decided to start LostAlone of the back of the songs he's written, "This is the road, the path that I chose". Yeah, he got to Rome, and decided the time was right for LostAlone and he decided there and then that that was what he wanted to do and he's never gonna fall asleep and all that again. There are a lot of references to music like prose, rhyme, musical fracture, melodically capture etc so it seems like he decided what he wanted to do with his life and the band in Rome.
Amazing.