My Egyptian Grammar Lyrics

Lyric discussion by elizah 

Cover art for My Egyptian Grammar lyrics by Fiery Furnaces, The

the lyrics made me think for a while - they sound fancy and are a pleasure to sing along to but i'm not sure if i've worked them out yet. i think these are confessions of a 40-something woman who simply realizes her age('your youth is gone') but wraps this with bizarre occurrences (which may also suggest she's lost her mind apart from fainting at the wedding). she fails to receive facts as they are, instead refers to weird symbols and complicated explanations of events (like egyptian hieroglyph themselves).