I love Maps and Atlases' briliant and unconventional lyrics, especially in the case of this track.
I agree with all of your observations, sam, but I have a diferent take on the "tin cans". I feel that this is yet another instance of airplane imagery -- coming from the slang usage of "tin can" to refer to an airplane. And perhaps the caravan of picketeers refers to the rebellious nature of the person who's leaving's departure.
I percieve it to be punctuated as "This is my best friend's locker without. Hooks still catching metal," as well. In this case the first sentence uses "without" to tell us that the locker is without any contents. And the only thing on the coat hooks is their own metal.
And then, of course, we have the imagery, in the block starting at "you were never mine" (which itself is fairly blatant), where Dave tells us of all the good times spent with this last person.
The song is so crushingly sad, though, because instead of being angry at the person who left for leaving when dave is finished describing the concrete circumstances at hand, he sings defeatedly about how the entire thing is his fault in the end. "Dear diary, I've become part of the problem now."
Still very curious to know what "milking fangs into baby food jars" is all about. Perhaps a metaphor using the imagery of the defeated and 'used' predator, but I have no idea how that relates, exactly.
I love Maps and Atlases' briliant and unconventional lyrics, especially in the case of this track.
I agree with all of your observations, sam, but I have a diferent take on the "tin cans". I feel that this is yet another instance of airplane imagery -- coming from the slang usage of "tin can" to refer to an airplane. And perhaps the caravan of picketeers refers to the rebellious nature of the person who's leaving's departure.
I percieve it to be punctuated as "This is my best friend's locker without. Hooks still catching metal," as well. In this case the first sentence uses "without" to tell us that the locker is without any contents. And the only thing on the coat hooks is their own metal.
And then, of course, we have the imagery, in the block starting at "you were never mine" (which itself is fairly blatant), where Dave tells us of all the good times spent with this last person.
The song is so crushingly sad, though, because instead of being angry at the person who left for leaving when dave is finished describing the concrete circumstances at hand, he sings defeatedly about how the entire thing is his fault in the end. "Dear diary, I've become part of the problem now."
Still very curious to know what "milking fangs into baby food jars" is all about. Perhaps a metaphor using the imagery of the defeated and 'used' predator, but I have no idea how that relates, exactly.