This song is beautiful...I love the weird background noises and vocals. It seems so apocalyptic or something, like all of mankind is involved in this ruined relationship with the way it says to "send us ALL away" and "my god in heaven, what were we thinking?" and "we gotta get out now", sort of like his relationship is crumbling and so his world as he knows it. The "phantom other" could be the ghost of his lover, his life, what he used to have. By saying "you're not the only one", the speaker could be letting him know that it's not the end of the world, heartbreak happens all the time. The end seems like he just wants out, to get away from the situation. Honestly, I'm pretty confused by it all, but looking at it that way sort of makes sense to me.
This song is beautiful...I love the weird background noises and vocals. It seems so apocalyptic or something, like all of mankind is involved in this ruined relationship with the way it says to "send us ALL away" and "my god in heaven, what were we thinking?" and "we gotta get out now", sort of like his relationship is crumbling and so his world as he knows it. The "phantom other" could be the ghost of his lover, his life, what he used to have. By saying "you're not the only one", the speaker could be letting him know that it's not the end of the world, heartbreak happens all the time. The end seems like he just wants out, to get away from the situation. Honestly, I'm pretty confused by it all, but looking at it that way sort of makes sense to me.