I have to say that I think this is one of the greatest breakup songs of all time....
I always thought he meant the line "tell me that it's nobody's fault.." to be sort of ironic because he's saying it like a command or request-- he wants someone else to tell HIM it's HIS fault. It almost strikes me as masochistic or maybe just an expression of existential horror, like, "Wow, there was no predetermined outcome to this relationship, my (or our) own actions ruined it when we could've saved it." And that is truly more frightening than if some sort of deterministic fate (blame the devil) had intervened to screw it up (So from that angle he may be sort of "saying it for both of them" I suppose).
"When the moon is a counterfeit... better find the one that lights the way for you," that line in particular has always stuck with me. As other posters have mentioned, it really captures that sense of crushing depression that can follow a tough break-up of a relationship. But also I like that it speaks to isolation in general as it relates to finding true companionship. How do you find "the one that lights the way for you" with all these hazards everywhere (connection to another Mutations song: "holding hands with an impotent dream, in a brothel of fake energy")?? And him choosing to make something as fundamental as the moon "counterfeit" is conveying how, particularly with romantic relationships, you can be totally misled and way way off course, with blinders on-- being with the wrong person (a counterfeit moon) for too long or not being with the right one (the real moon) for some silly reason.
I have to say that I think this is one of the greatest breakup songs of all time....
I always thought he meant the line "tell me that it's nobody's fault.." to be sort of ironic because he's saying it like a command or request-- he wants someone else to tell HIM it's HIS fault. It almost strikes me as masochistic or maybe just an expression of existential horror, like, "Wow, there was no predetermined outcome to this relationship, my (or our) own actions ruined it when we could've saved it." And that is truly more frightening than if some sort of deterministic fate (blame the devil) had intervened to screw it up (So from that angle he may be sort of "saying it for both of them" I suppose).
"When the moon is a counterfeit... better find the one that lights the way for you," that line in particular has always stuck with me. As other posters have mentioned, it really captures that sense of crushing depression that can follow a tough break-up of a relationship. But also I like that it speaks to isolation in general as it relates to finding true companionship. How do you find "the one that lights the way for you" with all these hazards everywhere (connection to another Mutations song: "holding hands with an impotent dream, in a brothel of fake energy")?? And him choosing to make something as fundamental as the moon "counterfeit" is conveying how, particularly with romantic relationships, you can be totally misled and way way off course, with blinders on-- being with the wrong person (a counterfeit moon) for too long or not being with the right one (the real moon) for some silly reason.