I love the first verse, when he sees the pigeon about to be killed and he fears for it, but he knows what's going to happen; those are just the mechanics of life.
I love how at first he wants to hide the fact that "the lines are all imagined" from his little girl, but then at the end, wants to impress it upon her. There is so much that is just imagined in our world today that we take for granted to be real. To realize that it doesn't exist, that it doesn't matter, is incredibly important (or is it?).
"Ace of spades, port of morrow, life is death is life"...
Then he makes a statement of human history: "Must've been a world of evil clowns who let it happen... But now I recognize, dear listeners, that you were there and so was I." The first time I heard this song, and I heard him sing "dear listeners," it felt so surreal.
The last line, that there is "a skull under your curls" is incredibly powerful to end the song. No matter how full of life a young girl might seem, she's just a skeleton on the inside. Just like everyone else who is alive, and everyone who is dead.
When it all comes together, it seems like an incredibly complex and simultaneously simple statement on life. Whatever it is, this song feels incredibly important to me.
I know he's said that this song is about being an atheist or whatever, so you could also look at "the lines are all imagined" as being the lines in the bible, literally the words said by god and others were all imagined.
I know he's said that this song is about being an atheist or whatever, so you could also look at "the lines are all imagined" as being the lines in the bible, literally the words said by god and others were all imagined.
Let me know what you think of what I thought...I don't necessarily agree with the lines pertaining to any specific faith or set of beliefs, just everything in general... My interpretation is down there somewhere... :P
Let me know what you think of what I thought...I don't necessarily agree with the lines pertaining to any specific faith or set of beliefs, just everything in general... My interpretation is down there somewhere... :P
This song is UNREAL.
I love the first verse, when he sees the pigeon about to be killed and he fears for it, but he knows what's going to happen; those are just the mechanics of life.
I love how at first he wants to hide the fact that "the lines are all imagined" from his little girl, but then at the end, wants to impress it upon her. There is so much that is just imagined in our world today that we take for granted to be real. To realize that it doesn't exist, that it doesn't matter, is incredibly important (or is it?).
"Ace of spades, port of morrow, life is death is life"...
Then he makes a statement of human history: "Must've been a world of evil clowns who let it happen... But now I recognize, dear listeners, that you were there and so was I." The first time I heard this song, and I heard him sing "dear listeners," it felt so surreal.
The last line, that there is "a skull under your curls" is incredibly powerful to end the song. No matter how full of life a young girl might seem, she's just a skeleton on the inside. Just like everyone else who is alive, and everyone who is dead.
When it all comes together, it seems like an incredibly complex and simultaneously simple statement on life. Whatever it is, this song feels incredibly important to me.
A little addition:
A little addition:
I know he's said that this song is about being an atheist or whatever, so you could also look at "the lines are all imagined" as being the lines in the bible, literally the words said by god and others were all imagined.
I know he's said that this song is about being an atheist or whatever, so you could also look at "the lines are all imagined" as being the lines in the bible, literally the words said by god and others were all imagined.
Let me know what you think of what I thought...I don't necessarily agree with the lines pertaining to any specific faith or set of beliefs, just everything in general... My interpretation is down there somewhere... :P
Let me know what you think of what I thought...I don't necessarily agree with the lines pertaining to any specific faith or set of beliefs, just everything in general... My interpretation is down there somewhere... :P