I'm going to link this song to two artists by influence and explain it in a glib manner.
I almost hear another joy division reference in this song (much like "the procession moves on the shouting is over") in this case, "this dreaming takes too long" is similar to "this treatment takes too long" from JD's "the eternal"
The song, I think it's from the point of view of someone who's been dumped. They had danced to a different drum, but he offered his love on barren soil and now he's trying to be grown-up and say fare-thee well. He has to say he's not bitter, so he really is, he's barely surviving, left feeling that the nature of things is random and ephemeral. The reference to a way of life and a different drum may be "the forest", perhaps a counter-cultural lifestyle dare I say?
IF IT IS, well could this not be the same "The Forest" of Rasputina's "How We Quit The Forest"? "the scene was never what it used to be!"
I'm going to link this song to two artists by influence and explain it in a glib manner.
I almost hear another joy division reference in this song (much like "the procession moves on the shouting is over") in this case, "this dreaming takes too long" is similar to "this treatment takes too long" from JD's "the eternal"
The song, I think it's from the point of view of someone who's been dumped. They had danced to a different drum, but he offered his love on barren soil and now he's trying to be grown-up and say fare-thee well. He has to say he's not bitter, so he really is, he's barely surviving, left feeling that the nature of things is random and ephemeral. The reference to a way of life and a different drum may be "the forest", perhaps a counter-cultural lifestyle dare I say?
IF IT IS, well could this not be the same "The Forest" of Rasputina's "How We Quit The Forest"? "the scene was never what it used to be!"