this and Since We've Been Wrong are my favorites of the new album. i think Octahedron is their best work since De-Loused.
as for meaning, i'm not too sure. i'm picking up on normal Mars Volta drug references and an eerie sense of homicide and/or suicide. there is definitely a lot of pain in this song. just need more time to dissect it.
speaking of drugs "the solution inhaled from the rag i hold, holds a maximum vacancy" has a reference to the holocaust because when the Nazis would search for people they would often have dogs with them to help sniff certain people out, and since people didn't want to be found they would often cover handkerchiefs in heroin and drop them on the floor so that when the dogs sniffed them they would lose their sense of smell. But it only worked if they had 1-3 dogs and after that it wouldn't work.
speaking of drugs "the solution inhaled from the rag i hold, holds a maximum vacancy" has a reference to the holocaust because when the Nazis would search for people they would often have dogs with them to help sniff certain people out, and since people didn't want to be found they would often cover handkerchiefs in heroin and drop them on the floor so that when the dogs sniffed them they would lose their sense of smell. But it only worked if they had 1-3 dogs and after that it wouldn't work.
this and Since We've Been Wrong are my favorites of the new album. i think Octahedron is their best work since De-Loused.
as for meaning, i'm not too sure. i'm picking up on normal Mars Volta drug references and an eerie sense of homicide and/or suicide. there is definitely a lot of pain in this song. just need more time to dissect it.
speaking of drugs "the solution inhaled from the rag i hold, holds a maximum vacancy" has a reference to the holocaust because when the Nazis would search for people they would often have dogs with them to help sniff certain people out, and since people didn't want to be found they would often cover handkerchiefs in heroin and drop them on the floor so that when the dogs sniffed them they would lose their sense of smell. But it only worked if they had 1-3 dogs and after that it wouldn't work.
speaking of drugs "the solution inhaled from the rag i hold, holds a maximum vacancy" has a reference to the holocaust because when the Nazis would search for people they would often have dogs with them to help sniff certain people out, and since people didn't want to be found they would often cover handkerchiefs in heroin and drop them on the floor so that when the dogs sniffed them they would lose their sense of smell. But it only worked if they had 1-3 dogs and after that it wouldn't work.
i dunno i may be just going nowhere
i dunno i may be just going nowhere