anyone pick up on the recurrent metallic and automotive references? Sure "magnet" and "radio" are obvious, but also: "Pin", "Spoke", "slide for a mile", "overdrive", "picking up on the radio", "rust". It seems to me that there is a playful and slight personification of the "you" in the song as a car. this doesn't exclude the lyrics as speaking about a relationship, probably with a woman, but sorta complements it to me.
The more I read over it, the more I see it this way--especially in lines like "sampled your rust from a faucet, I know" which seems to me a figurative and beautiful way of talking about an old car that is left in rain and rusts over a long time.
Not sure what part corresponds to the "spine" of a car. Thought of maybe a car frame, or along with the radio reference, the dashed increments of the old analog radios that have dials.
Oh, and it just occurred to me that the "magnet in my head" lends some meaning to the narrators address of the radio, since a magnet will distort a radio, or isn't there a magnet in the parts of a radio?
Actually, its getting clearer to me now that a big part of the song is talking about a radio in a figurative way. "Stuck a pin in your backbone" would be again a really beautiful way of seeing the station indicator against the markings of the various radio stations; further, the "loss your friction and slid for a mile" would be about the inarticulate static of the radio, or possibly the wearing down of the markings on a radio display, and turning that dial a lot to find something that picks up.
Ok, so reading it once more, I'm convinced that both the narrator and the you are personified parts of a radio head unit. Hence the "magnet in my head". Now maybe the "web in front" might be seen as having something to do with a chewed up cassette tape.
What popped in my head reading the posts was maybe his relationship to his instruments and amps. Pin - cord jack thingy; Spine - guitar neck;
What popped in my head reading the posts was maybe his relationship to his instruments and amps. Pin - cord jack thingy; Spine - guitar neck;
Web in front of his favorite lie - The mesh cloth or the design on the front of the amp covering his insecurity about what he has created musically.
Web in front of his favorite lie - The mesh cloth or the design on the front of the amp covering his insecurity about what he has created musically.
Magnet in his head - the music in its purity as he hears it in his mind's speaker (magnet) and by the time it is expressed with his hands it is tarnished (wasted)
Magnet in his head - the music in its purity as he hears it in his mind's speaker (magnet) and by the time it is expressed with his hands it is tarnished (wasted)
All I ever wanted was to be your spine - To have...
All I ever wanted was to be your spine - To have the confidence to be worthy or to create the 'core' of what the instruments are there for as they are empty, soul-less without the musician.
Picking it up on the radio.- local radio station interference on the amps? The amp trying to get him radio air time the only way it knows how but it's a hollow effort. And he's talking to amp, "You're not the one who let me down, but thanks for offering." as to chastise the amp for the practical joke.
Didn't mean to reply to you specifically, just noticed the other box down there.
I may be all out in left field but it was fun to ponder for a bit.
I've been listening to this song for a long time and never thought of the lyrics in this way. I don't know that I ascribe to all of it, but I love the way you've interpreted it. Good job!
I've been listening to this song for a long time and never thought of the lyrics in this way. I don't know that I ascribe to all of it, but I love the way you've interpreted it. Good job!
anyone pick up on the recurrent metallic and automotive references? Sure "magnet" and "radio" are obvious, but also: "Pin", "Spoke", "slide for a mile", "overdrive", "picking up on the radio", "rust". It seems to me that there is a playful and slight personification of the "you" in the song as a car. this doesn't exclude the lyrics as speaking about a relationship, probably with a woman, but sorta complements it to me.
The more I read over it, the more I see it this way--especially in lines like "sampled your rust from a faucet, I know" which seems to me a figurative and beautiful way of talking about an old car that is left in rain and rusts over a long time.
Not sure what part corresponds to the "spine" of a car. Thought of maybe a car frame, or along with the radio reference, the dashed increments of the old analog radios that have dials.
Oh, and it just occurred to me that the "magnet in my head" lends some meaning to the narrators address of the radio, since a magnet will distort a radio, or isn't there a magnet in the parts of a radio?
Actually, its getting clearer to me now that a big part of the song is talking about a radio in a figurative way. "Stuck a pin in your backbone" would be again a really beautiful way of seeing the station indicator against the markings of the various radio stations; further, the "loss your friction and slid for a mile" would be about the inarticulate static of the radio, or possibly the wearing down of the markings on a radio display, and turning that dial a lot to find something that picks up.
Ok, so reading it once more, I'm convinced that both the narrator and the you are personified parts of a radio head unit. Hence the "magnet in my head". Now maybe the "web in front" might be seen as having something to do with a chewed up cassette tape.
What popped in my head reading the posts was maybe his relationship to his instruments and amps. Pin - cord jack thingy; Spine - guitar neck;
What popped in my head reading the posts was maybe his relationship to his instruments and amps. Pin - cord jack thingy; Spine - guitar neck;
Web in front of his favorite lie - The mesh cloth or the design on the front of the amp covering his insecurity about what he has created musically.
Web in front of his favorite lie - The mesh cloth or the design on the front of the amp covering his insecurity about what he has created musically.
Magnet in his head - the music in its purity as he hears it in his mind's speaker (magnet) and by the time it is expressed with his hands it is tarnished (wasted)
Magnet in his head - the music in its purity as he hears it in his mind's speaker (magnet) and by the time it is expressed with his hands it is tarnished (wasted)
All I ever wanted was to be your spine - To have...
All I ever wanted was to be your spine - To have the confidence to be worthy or to create the 'core' of what the instruments are there for as they are empty, soul-less without the musician.
Picking it up on the radio.- local radio station interference on the amps? The amp trying to get him radio air time the only way it knows how but it's a hollow effort. And he's talking to amp, "You're not the one who let me down, but thanks for offering." as to chastise the amp for the practical joke.
Didn't mean to reply to you specifically, just noticed the other box down there. I may be all out in left field but it was fun to ponder for a bit.
I've been listening to this song for a long time and never thought of the lyrics in this way. I don't know that I ascribe to all of it, but I love the way you've interpreted it. Good job!
I've been listening to this song for a long time and never thought of the lyrics in this way. I don't know that I ascribe to all of it, but I love the way you've interpreted it. Good job!