Light Leaves

This song seems pretty straightforward insomuch that Yoni's denouncing the idea that we're these bespoke individuals, perhaps something our consciousness creates. Instead we're nothing more than a collection of cells which fall apart on death.

This idea is set up in the first two verses, where he talks of our bodies being made of dirt, which crumble away from each other as the "light leaves". He likens it to the loss of hair and ejaculate, which perhaps make the death of cells more evident whilst we're alive. I think the "Airplane rear and hotel lobby ladies rooms: Beware" may well be a reference not to masturbating, but to having sex in these places, as he then says that "these light leaves bagged up in plastic, never to decompose or fertilize", perhaps implying they are in a condom. It is difficult to say though, perhaps instead of washing away in a sewer they're in a bin liner, destined for a landfill.

From then he says that this is not a fate he wants, and as there is no heaven to go to, he wishes to just rejoin the earth as is natural.

Great song though, although it didn't stand our at first, it is one of the best on the album. Yoni's lyricism is unrivaled, and I feel a little dirty to have tried to unravel it.