Another World

Hegarty's minimalistic selection is profound and the use of language conventions create a solid thematic statement, riddled with romantic irony. The song opens with solemn piano chords and faint yearning moans. Hegarty sings the first stanza alone, and then joined by another voice in the second, with the faint but swelling moans in the third, and the personified 'wind' via flute in the fourth. The joining of voices do not seem conscious of each other - 2:55 the voices do not finish together, one lingers. The swelling moans and the personified wind in the background seem to be disconnected, abstract, but founded in reality in that they are creating dialogue in harmony. To me it suggests a universal truth of fearing or being anxious of the unknown. I wonder if these faint discords are even in the world of our own, as if the are representative of spirits seen in other planes of existence yet bound by the same universal truth. The intentional repetition of the same group of words at the beginning of successful clauses "I need another.../ I need another... I'm gonna miss the... / I'm gonna miss the" (lines 1-2, 67) also known as an anaphora creates the effect of a trance like beckoning. It reminds me that of a child's pessimistic lamenting while coming of age, that regardless of what you tell them they are going to be anxious and fearful for the change that inevitably will come, primarily because they have not experienced or know. This inability to know what is to come from death is spotted throughout the entire album, until that of the final song which provides a great swelling of empathy. This is similar to that of Heart of Darkness with the thematic agony of not knowing, yet contrasting in that it suggests that universal truths do exist.