Tommy has said that Between the Buried and Me will be releasing a book with their interpretation of this album and I'm assuming the Parallax part I as well as the Night Owls but before that happens, I wanted to comment on all these songs for my own interpretation of the story.
Goodbye to Everything is the first track on Parallax II: Future Sequence and serves more as an introduction to the album and the story to come. It's more of a foreboding track that explains what is to happen throughout the albums story.
The Parallax features 2 characters from different parts of time referred to as "Prospect One" and Prospect Two" who are really the same person as well as "The Black Mask," a character referred to as "she," and "The Night Owls."
Non-linear story telling and interesting lyrics make this album difficult to figure out but Lost Perfection I and II from The Silent Circus album make mention of these characters which will be discussed in a later song, as well as the mysterious Night Owls from The Great Misdirect and also Colors, Prequel to the Sequel.
So that brings us to the interpretation. From my understanding prior to this album, Prospect I was fed up with living the way he was and fled to live a life out on his own in the ocean (Swim to the Moon from Great Misdirect). Unfortunately he meets his own demise and is reanimated as something else. After returning to the surface he spends 3 nights trying to figure out his predicament but on night 4 "they return" all the while he feels a nagging suspicion that his linear mind is as one with someone else, "The mirror stares back." Basically, he is reanimated as something else and comes to learn that he is connected to Prospect 2.
Prospect 2 wakes up feeling like his is lying next to a sleeping person but reality catches up to alertness and she is gone and had been for a long time. He needs something new but today will change it all. He finds himself smiling up at a vessel (a ship) which brings him to hypersleep. He must keep working even though it's the "longest fucking days" the "seed is planted" and he dreams of the earth in flames. Still something doesn't seem right. It seems his decision to end life as we know it was decided long ago by the conversation with the Night Owls mentioned in "Lunar Wilderness" Again, this is just an interpretation of Parallax I.
So where does it leave us with the new album? Both of the Prospects realize that they must destroy all of mankind to save life because man is the destroyer. They don't realize if it is right, selfish, or wrong to do but it's foreboding to the coming end.
Tommy has said that Between the Buried and Me will be releasing a book with their interpretation of this album and I'm assuming the Parallax part I as well as the Night Owls but before that happens, I wanted to comment on all these songs for my own interpretation of the story.
Goodbye to Everything is the first track on Parallax II: Future Sequence and serves more as an introduction to the album and the story to come. It's more of a foreboding track that explains what is to happen throughout the albums story.
The Parallax features 2 characters from different parts of time referred to as "Prospect One" and Prospect Two" who are really the same person as well as "The Black Mask," a character referred to as "she," and "The Night Owls."
Non-linear story telling and interesting lyrics make this album difficult to figure out but Lost Perfection I and II from The Silent Circus album make mention of these characters which will be discussed in a later song, as well as the mysterious Night Owls from The Great Misdirect and also Colors, Prequel to the Sequel.
So that brings us to the interpretation. From my understanding prior to this album, Prospect I was fed up with living the way he was and fled to live a life out on his own in the ocean (Swim to the Moon from Great Misdirect). Unfortunately he meets his own demise and is reanimated as something else. After returning to the surface he spends 3 nights trying to figure out his predicament but on night 4 "they return" all the while he feels a nagging suspicion that his linear mind is as one with someone else, "The mirror stares back." Basically, he is reanimated as something else and comes to learn that he is connected to Prospect 2.
Prospect 2 wakes up feeling like his is lying next to a sleeping person but reality catches up to alertness and she is gone and had been for a long time. He needs something new but today will change it all. He finds himself smiling up at a vessel (a ship) which brings him to hypersleep. He must keep working even though it's the "longest fucking days" the "seed is planted" and he dreams of the earth in flames. Still something doesn't seem right. It seems his decision to end life as we know it was decided long ago by the conversation with the Night Owls mentioned in "Lunar Wilderness" Again, this is just an interpretation of Parallax I.
So where does it leave us with the new album? Both of the Prospects realize that they must destroy all of mankind to save life because man is the destroyer. They don't realize if it is right, selfish, or wrong to do but it's foreboding to the coming end.