Bishop, CA Lyrics

Lyric discussion by EuropeanJazz 

Cover art for Bishop, CA lyrics by Xiu Xiu

This one seems to have a meaning, that for me is a bit harder to crack.. let's see..

"this blue dot of sickly light that is daytime in your embarassed town" -to me, the blue dot seems like all that you can see of the sky from the bottom of the well, where you're imprisoned

"burns a hole in the fading yellow ribbon on your fading wine colored Cavaliere" -"Yellow ribbon" has been used for various purposes, notably, for the support of the hostages of something called the iran hostage crisis, calling it the "cavaliere", too, points to an imaginary hero whom the hostages wish to free them from the well.

"the mine has fallen down on you as you dug a well of death milk and sugar water in brief sympathy with them"

-The town mentioned before might be thought of as being in the subjects (who is talked about as 'you') 'ownership', so the 'you' isn't living in the town in the bottom of the well.. and the mine falling down on him, means that he didn't succeed to keep his hostages alive and well being, thus 'well of death'..

I might be far off, but the rest seems to follow from this interpretation.

"the mine has crushed your brother" -might mean that his brother found out about the mine, and got killed or anything

I'm still wrong, I know because it reads "Your fading wine colored Cavaliere", which means the person talked about as 'you' is wishing for rescue, but it is also the 'you' that shares milk and sugar water in 'brief sympathy' with 'them', who are doubtlessly the hostages..