I may be way off here but has anyone considered that it might be about a suicide. Perhaps this Halfway Home is some sort of rehabilitation center that this girl is in.
"The lazy way they turned your head
Into a rest stop for the dead
And did it all in gold and blue and grey"
Maybe she was given anti-depressants or some other medication that took her personality. Think One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The only way to control the patients is to keep them sedated and to take away their personalities and motives.
"The efforts to allay your dread,
In spite of all you knew and said,
Were hard to see and harder still to say"
She was trying to get better for whatever reasons but the problems were too much for her.
"A comfort plush all laced in lead
Was sent to quell your sentiment
And keep your trembling sentinel hand at bay"
Here's where I see that it could be a suicide. The "comfort plush all laced in lead" may be a gun (hence the lead part) and it would be comforting to her to take her life as she sees this is the only way out ("to quell your sentiment").
"And when a sudden silhouette
Escaped the top-side of your bed
I knew you'd never ever be the same"
This sounds a little corny, but the silhouette could be her soul that escapes her body. He says I knew you'd never be the same because she's dead.
What do you guys think? I'm not sure what to make of the chorus, but the first couple versus really seem to point to a suicide.
cookiemountain
you are definately spot on. The lyrics are pointing towards a suicide with a friend/lover (is it not me? sounds like a question that they used to ask in the old days when someone who loved them treated them less than they should...) and then the soul of that person "surfs the sun and scales the moon" and the narrator has "gone insane" because of the loss.
cookiemountain
you are definately spot on. The lyrics are pointing towards a suicide with a friend/lover (is it not me? sounds like a question that they used to ask in the old days when someone who loved them treated them less than they should...) and then the soul of that person "surfs the sun and scales the moon" and the narrator has "gone insane" because of the loss.
The biggest part is the last line:
The biggest part is the last line:
Go on throw this stone
Into this halfway home.
Go on throw this stone
Into this halfway home.
He is referring to a human body/the human world as a...
He is referring to a human body/the human world as a halfway home for us to exist in between spiritual worlds. TV on the Radio is very poignant and this song is beautiful. It is also like Golden Age in the sense that they are trying to give the sense of a new spiritual world that others have forgotten about. Especially other bands today, I doubt any of them get as close to describing spiritual journeys as well as this band.
i always thought of the soul that was escaping more as a child's soul. Think along the lines of a Peter Pan reference. In the beginning of the movie, where him and his shadow are seperate. i felt as though this was saying the child was losing his shadow almost like losing his innocence possibly because because of a suicide or something else that forced them to grow up too fast.
i always thought of the soul that was escaping more as a child's soul. Think along the lines of a Peter Pan reference. In the beginning of the movie, where him and his shadow are seperate. i felt as though this was saying the child was losing his shadow almost like losing his innocence possibly because because of a suicide or something else that forced them to grow up too fast.
I may be way off here but has anyone considered that it might be about a suicide. Perhaps this Halfway Home is some sort of rehabilitation center that this girl is in.
"The lazy way they turned your head Into a rest stop for the dead And did it all in gold and blue and grey"
Maybe she was given anti-depressants or some other medication that took her personality. Think One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The only way to control the patients is to keep them sedated and to take away their personalities and motives.
"The efforts to allay your dread, In spite of all you knew and said, Were hard to see and harder still to say"
She was trying to get better for whatever reasons but the problems were too much for her.
"A comfort plush all laced in lead Was sent to quell your sentiment And keep your trembling sentinel hand at bay"
Here's where I see that it could be a suicide. The "comfort plush all laced in lead" may be a gun (hence the lead part) and it would be comforting to her to take her life as she sees this is the only way out ("to quell your sentiment").
"And when a sudden silhouette Escaped the top-side of your bed I knew you'd never ever be the same"
This sounds a little corny, but the silhouette could be her soul that escapes her body. He says I knew you'd never be the same because she's dead.
What do you guys think? I'm not sure what to make of the chorus, but the first couple versus really seem to point to a suicide.
cookiemountain you are definately spot on. The lyrics are pointing towards a suicide with a friend/lover (is it not me? sounds like a question that they used to ask in the old days when someone who loved them treated them less than they should...) and then the soul of that person "surfs the sun and scales the moon" and the narrator has "gone insane" because of the loss.
cookiemountain you are definately spot on. The lyrics are pointing towards a suicide with a friend/lover (is it not me? sounds like a question that they used to ask in the old days when someone who loved them treated them less than they should...) and then the soul of that person "surfs the sun and scales the moon" and the narrator has "gone insane" because of the loss.
The biggest part is the last line:
The biggest part is the last line:
Go on throw this stone Into this halfway home.
Go on throw this stone Into this halfway home.
He is referring to a human body/the human world as a...
He is referring to a human body/the human world as a halfway home for us to exist in between spiritual worlds. TV on the Radio is very poignant and this song is beautiful. It is also like Golden Age in the sense that they are trying to give the sense of a new spiritual world that others have forgotten about. Especially other bands today, I doubt any of them get as close to describing spiritual journeys as well as this band.
i always thought of the soul that was escaping more as a child's soul. Think along the lines of a Peter Pan reference. In the beginning of the movie, where him and his shadow are seperate. i felt as though this was saying the child was losing his shadow almost like losing his innocence possibly because because of a suicide or something else that forced them to grow up too fast.
i always thought of the soul that was escaping more as a child's soul. Think along the lines of a Peter Pan reference. In the beginning of the movie, where him and his shadow are seperate. i felt as though this was saying the child was losing his shadow almost like losing his innocence possibly because because of a suicide or something else that forced them to grow up too fast.