Hi the whistling is completely absorbing isn't it? Very sad and evocative.
I was wondering if in fact this song is not partly about dying?
"when our mouths are filled with uninvited tongues of others" (worms/beetles,crows perhaps, I get stong imagery of flesh being eaten from inside)
"And the strays are pining for their unrequited mothers" (unrequited = unresponsive perhaps? Due to deathly absence?)
"Milk that sours is promptly spat
Light will fill our eyes like cats" (An after death type thing? filled with light??)
and on the final lines:
"Light will fill our eyes like cats..
Cataracts" (a reversal or change of meaning here possibly from 'radiant light' to 'light in colour'- 'light' becoming a the white veil of death that appears in the eye like cataracts when someone is dead)
just a few thoughts...hope they are of interest.
I must say i find the comments about being 'conquered by another culture' made by Tru_Shard both offensive and highly unlikely - not to mention zenophobic.
Also i find the imagery of the other verses in this song absolutely stupendous.
Andrew Bird I HATE YOU!!!!
Hi the whistling is completely absorbing isn't it? Very sad and evocative.
I was wondering if in fact this song is not partly about dying?
"when our mouths are filled with uninvited tongues of others" (worms/beetles,crows perhaps, I get stong imagery of flesh being eaten from inside) "And the strays are pining for their unrequited mothers" (unrequited = unresponsive perhaps? Due to deathly absence?) "Milk that sours is promptly spat Light will fill our eyes like cats" (An after death type thing? filled with light??)
and on the final lines: "Light will fill our eyes like cats.. Cataracts" (a reversal or change of meaning here possibly from 'radiant light' to 'light in colour'- 'light' becoming a the white veil of death that appears in the eye like cataracts when someone is dead)
just a few thoughts...hope they are of interest. I must say i find the comments about being 'conquered by another culture' made by Tru_Shard both offensive and highly unlikely - not to mention zenophobic.
Also i find the imagery of the other verses in this song absolutely stupendous. Andrew Bird I HATE YOU!!!!