To me this is one of Beck's most morose songs, but beautiful and riveting noetheless. I don't think his songs are usually spiritual, but I felt some religious undertones from this one. It's a bit like he and someone else are watching the world fall into sin, despair, and all that with "You and me watching the sea full of people / Already drowned." Then it gets a little apocalyptic with "Where do they go?" (heaven or hell?). "You and me hit by a cloud / like an eagle" could reference Christ (or the antichrist, who knows?) coming down in a cloud of glory to judge the quick and the dead. Beck apparently is going to heaven by climbing a hole in the sky.
To me this is one of Beck's most morose songs, but beautiful and riveting noetheless. I don't think his songs are usually spiritual, but I felt some religious undertones from this one. It's a bit like he and someone else are watching the world fall into sin, despair, and all that with "You and me watching the sea full of people / Already drowned." Then it gets a little apocalyptic with "Where do they go?" (heaven or hell?). "You and me hit by a cloud / like an eagle" could reference Christ (or the antichrist, who knows?) coming down in a cloud of glory to judge the quick and the dead. Beck apparently is going to heaven by climbing a hole in the sky.