A Birthday Bash Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ArcticSounds 

Cover art for A Birthday Bash lyrics by Cursive

Are there the twins as two separate individuals? Or is it just one guy with split personality/an alter ego? I keep going back and forth on it.

As the record begins, it seems like they are twins. By the end, we realize that there never was a Pollock, it was just Cassius all along. One of the lines in "The Sun and Moon" that really started to reveal that was "I can see through you like a two-way mirror." A one way mirror allows you to look through to the other side without that person seeing you, but a two way mirror just means you're looking at yourself.

Towards the end of this song when he sings "An imaginary friend hidden underneath his skin / An identical...

The final song pretty much tells the story. He was a orphan child who didn't even have a name. So he created the grandest name he could. Instead of being no one he was two people.