The beginning riffs sound like warm sunrays on a summer morning.
There are no clouds on the sky "but I will move those clouds away" - The sky looks clear, fresh and innocent like nothing happened, plunging the scene in a bizzarre, kind of carefree background.
"you've already glistened through the window" - Maybe the driver was dazzled by the sun.
Just within seconds "it's gone from light to grey" - The very bright sunlight, the next thing he may have seen is the grey asphalt of the road.
"we flipped towards the sun": Another hint, that the driver was dazzled as the sun was apparently shining directly from the front. The "we" hints there are more people involved than the driver.
"wheels skidding on the road": self-explaining.
"a flowing sea of red / the whole city groans": Blood of course, and "the city" meaning the local people noticing the accident being shocked.
"my heart-I owe you-my soul": His girlfriend / close person. Maybe she/he was killed in the accident while the driver survived and now he feels guilty for the death. "I owe you my soul" - It should have been him to die or at least he is so guilty he offers even his soul to save her/him.
So maybe the song is even about suicide after having caused an accident in which a rider died.
Alternative it may be a last prayer to take his life but to spare the rider's.
Or maybe at least, if both die, take his soul to hell and the rider's to heaven ("let the demons have their way / if so it's angels you create"). Every of this theories is also supported by the lines:
"Please accept this offer, this is all for you, transcend" not sure, if the "you" means the soul of the rider or the sun (symbolic for a sort of god). I tend to believe the last one, because of the song title and the following:
rubberneck
passing motorists
a mangled tuna-can-car rests : Good keywords to put the scenery in a nutshell. Nice metaphor with the mangled tuna-can-car.
Important quote:
repair this tattered skin
hold it in your hand
you've already glistened through the window
you've already set us all
free
The sunbeam through the window has "set them all free", which means killed them obviously (which may somehow eliminate the suicide theory, but not by any manner of means). He craves to "repair this tattered skin / hold it in your hand", so to save the dead rider, either bring her/him back to life or at least to heaven to keep it save.
From this background, it's easier to find a way to interprete the first verse:
but I will move those clouds away
letting the sun shine through
in this ode to you
[...]
and disguised within the dark
light will wait
He wants to sacrifice himself in any way to save the rider and his craving is put into this song. This is why the voice gets so begging and longing and why I love this song so much. You can feel the heartblood in it when listening to it.
Disguised withing the dark light will wait... While there will be only darkness for him, it will comfort him to know that at least the rider is save, which is his personal lightbeam, even in total darkness around him, hidden (disguised) from others. Darkness in which form it ever means, maybe suicide, maybe hell, maybe death, I am still not sure.
Hope this is comprehensible, I do not speak English mother tongue.
I also think it's about a car crash.
The beginning riffs sound like warm sunrays on a summer morning.
There are no clouds on the sky "but I will move those clouds away" - The sky looks clear, fresh and innocent like nothing happened, plunging the scene in a bizzarre, kind of carefree background.
"you've already glistened through the window" - Maybe the driver was dazzled by the sun. Just within seconds "it's gone from light to grey" - The very bright sunlight, the next thing he may have seen is the grey asphalt of the road.
"we flipped towards the sun": Another hint, that the driver was dazzled as the sun was apparently shining directly from the front. The "we" hints there are more people involved than the driver.
"wheels skidding on the road": self-explaining.
"a flowing sea of red / the whole city groans": Blood of course, and "the city" meaning the local people noticing the accident being shocked.
"my heart-I owe you-my soul": His girlfriend / close person. Maybe she/he was killed in the accident while the driver survived and now he feels guilty for the death. "I owe you my soul" - It should have been him to die or at least he is so guilty he offers even his soul to save her/him. So maybe the song is even about suicide after having caused an accident in which a rider died. Alternative it may be a last prayer to take his life but to spare the rider's. Or maybe at least, if both die, take his soul to hell and the rider's to heaven ("let the demons have their way / if so it's angels you create"). Every of this theories is also supported by the lines:
"Please accept this offer, this is all for you, transcend" not sure, if the "you" means the soul of the rider or the sun (symbolic for a sort of god). I tend to believe the last one, because of the song title and the following:
rubberneck passing motorists a mangled tuna-can-car rests : Good keywords to put the scenery in a nutshell. Nice metaphor with the mangled tuna-can-car.
Important quote: repair this tattered skin hold it in your hand you've already glistened through the window you've already set us all free
The sunbeam through the window has "set them all free", which means killed them obviously (which may somehow eliminate the suicide theory, but not by any manner of means). He craves to "repair this tattered skin / hold it in your hand", so to save the dead rider, either bring her/him back to life or at least to heaven to keep it save.
From this background, it's easier to find a way to interprete the first verse:
but I will move those clouds away letting the sun shine through in this ode to you [...] and disguised within the dark light will wait
He wants to sacrifice himself in any way to save the rider and his craving is put into this song. This is why the voice gets so begging and longing and why I love this song so much. You can feel the heartblood in it when listening to it.
Disguised withing the dark light will wait... While there will be only darkness for him, it will comfort him to know that at least the rider is save, which is his personal lightbeam, even in total darkness around him, hidden (disguised) from others. Darkness in which form it ever means, maybe suicide, maybe hell, maybe death, I am still not sure.
Hope this is comprehensible, I do not speak English mother tongue.