This song is beautiful, incredibly vivid in description, and open to being interpreted a number of ways. I see it on the surface as a description of a man killing himself by going over the falls in a barrel, but also as a metaphor for the death of a relationship that is seen as one-sided.
in regards to the end of the song:
there's nothing left but a mess of splinters, flailing limbs,
the water sounds just like the record's end.
Just like the record's end.
Just like the record's end.
There's no big bang there's no big mess,
there's no big parade no big cheques.
It's not about him coming to terms with his death/the death of the relationship, or learning to live with things, just a description of the end. Quiet, insignificant, unnoticed by the outside world. All that's left in the end is a small mess that gets swept away in the swirling waters.
Wow. Actually. Yeah. thinking about it that way makes a lot of sense. It's such a beautiful song. I have listened to it pretty obsessively over the past couple of months.
Wow. Actually. Yeah. thinking about it that way makes a lot of sense. It's such a beautiful song. I have listened to it pretty obsessively over the past couple of months.
This song is beautiful, incredibly vivid in description, and open to being interpreted a number of ways. I see it on the surface as a description of a man killing himself by going over the falls in a barrel, but also as a metaphor for the death of a relationship that is seen as one-sided.
in regards to the end of the song:
there's nothing left but a mess of splinters, flailing limbs, the water sounds just like the record's end. Just like the record's end. Just like the record's end.
There's no big bang there's no big mess, there's no big parade no big cheques.
It's not about him coming to terms with his death/the death of the relationship, or learning to live with things, just a description of the end. Quiet, insignificant, unnoticed by the outside world. All that's left in the end is a small mess that gets swept away in the swirling waters.
Wow. Actually. Yeah. thinking about it that way makes a lot of sense. It's such a beautiful song. I have listened to it pretty obsessively over the past couple of months.
Wow. Actually. Yeah. thinking about it that way makes a lot of sense. It's such a beautiful song. I have listened to it pretty obsessively over the past couple of months.