If I take aranneas' comment seriously, this song might be referring to Aaron Turner's following statement:
"Through explaining the last two albums time and time again, I just started to become weary of the topic, and I started to feel like I was losing my connection to the music and the lyrics simply from having repeated it so many times." (From Wikipedia)
'Gathered scribes over, jagged shards under foot' may be a reference to how scribes (journalists, interviewers) repeatedly ask him about his lyrics and how it's uncomfortable for him like some jagged shards under his foot.
In the same vein,
"Into the truth
Let myself burn
Now it's written
1000 shards "
might refer to how his inclination against repeatedly explaining his lyrics is the truth for him.
Just absolute arrows in darkness these ideas. I could probably come up with an explanation which is just as convincing to myself, with a totally different meaning ;)
If I take aranneas' comment seriously, this song might be referring to Aaron Turner's following statement:
"Through explaining the last two albums time and time again, I just started to become weary of the topic, and I started to feel like I was losing my connection to the music and the lyrics simply from having repeated it so many times." (From Wikipedia)
'Gathered scribes over, jagged shards under foot' may be a reference to how scribes (journalists, interviewers) repeatedly ask him about his lyrics and how it's uncomfortable for him like some jagged shards under his foot.
In the same vein,
"Into the truth Let myself burn Now it's written 1000 shards "
might refer to how his inclination against repeatedly explaining his lyrics is the truth for him.
Just absolute arrows in darkness these ideas. I could probably come up with an explanation which is just as convincing to myself, with a totally different meaning ;)