Important to me are two things: The speaker/"I" doesn't have the girl he wants yet ("I'd hold you..", "baby out of reach"), and he always alienates the people he's trying to impress. The corrected lyrics (see first comment) seem to be appropriate if you listen very hard to the studio version of the song. According to these lyrics, it is cold mathematics which gets in the way of love. Love is irrational, crazy — but the speaker/"I" ist unable to be irrational and crazy, he can't let himself go and give in to his feelings. Instead of falling for the girl he wants, he thinks too much and alienates her, as he is alienating everyone else. So he is very lonely, but hopes that one day he will overcome his obsessive cold rationality: "But one day I will learn to shine through the unforgiven sounds of cold mathematics making it's move on me now."
Another interpretation could be that the girl rejects the speaker/"I". She is heartless and imposes cold mathematics on him. He is lovesick and lonely and has cruel visions of "peacocks on the chopping block". And he hopes that some day he will get through to her, so that he won't have to hear "unforgiven sounds of cold mathematics" anymore. In this interretation it is a song about rejected love.
I think it is a great song because it is ambivalent and invites you to look at it from different perspectices. However, what I don't hear in the lyrics is the equation love = mathematics. And: I hope that Cherry Ghost will tour Germany one day!
Important to me are two things: The speaker/"I" doesn't have the girl he wants yet ("I'd hold you..", "baby out of reach"), and he always alienates the people he's trying to impress. The corrected lyrics (see first comment) seem to be appropriate if you listen very hard to the studio version of the song. According to these lyrics, it is cold mathematics which gets in the way of love. Love is irrational, crazy — but the speaker/"I" ist unable to be irrational and crazy, he can't let himself go and give in to his feelings. Instead of falling for the girl he wants, he thinks too much and alienates her, as he is alienating everyone else. So he is very lonely, but hopes that one day he will overcome his obsessive cold rationality: "But one day I will learn to shine through the unforgiven sounds of cold mathematics making it's move on me now." Another interpretation could be that the girl rejects the speaker/"I". She is heartless and imposes cold mathematics on him. He is lovesick and lonely and has cruel visions of "peacocks on the chopping block". And he hopes that some day he will get through to her, so that he won't have to hear "unforgiven sounds of cold mathematics" anymore. In this interretation it is a song about rejected love. I think it is a great song because it is ambivalent and invites you to look at it from different perspectices. However, what I don't hear in the lyrics is the equation love = mathematics. And: I hope that Cherry Ghost will tour Germany one day!