Eid Ma Clack Shaw Lyrics

Lyric discussion by engineer_va 

Cover art for Eid Ma Clack Shaw lyrics by Bill Callahan

Amazing song - perfect delivery. Chilling.

I have two theories on the "answers": 1) He was half asleep when he scribbled the solution. The dream did actually have the answers, but he lost them by writing them in that state. 2) He is begging to be shown the way by his lover's ghost. The ghost visits him in a dream and gives him the answers. However, the language is that of the dead, and while he understood it in a state of sleep, he cannot translate the answers into anything meaningful while awake.

My Interpretation

I always just thought that since he wrote down what he heard in the dream, it'd be in dream-speak. It makes sense to me. And who says that the perfect song needs to be in any language? The perfect song might just call for gibberish.