I'm having some issues pinpointing what this song could be about, but there's definitely some themes of isolation, insanity, and the narrator is likely someone far greater than humanity, or well, is high above the earth (but at the same time they identify with people...)
"On the moon." The moon is high above the earth, far away from everything.
"Long ago." Time is a distance, and implies the narrator is old.
"My cave is lit with tiny lights" I think of the space, the tiny lights being distant stars.
The rest of the imagery in this stanza also implies vertical distance and isolation from the rest of the world.
I keep coming to the conclusion that this is a song about the man in the moon.
"I have half-a-mind, it's cracked and breaking" - half moon, cracked and cratered surface of the moon
It's recommended as great for tasting" -cheese tasting
"I make no friends, I've got no spark" -comparison to the sun
I'm not totally bought on this interpretation, though. There's some other parts to the song that are really cool but I can't figure out.
Also, I looked up "tried and true" and it means: reliable, proven to be good, time-tested, worthy. Not sure what that could mean for the song, but it sort of strikes me as a rebellious act, perhaps done out of spite? Maybe the moon is fed up with the sun getting all the attention.
I'm having some issues pinpointing what this song could be about, but there's definitely some themes of isolation, insanity, and the narrator is likely someone far greater than humanity, or well, is high above the earth (but at the same time they identify with people...)
"On the moon." The moon is high above the earth, far away from everything. "Long ago." Time is a distance, and implies the narrator is old.
"My cave is lit with tiny lights" I think of the space, the tiny lights being distant stars. The rest of the imagery in this stanza also implies vertical distance and isolation from the rest of the world.
I keep coming to the conclusion that this is a song about the man in the moon. "I have half-a-mind, it's cracked and breaking" - half moon, cracked and cratered surface of the moon It's recommended as great for tasting" -cheese tasting
"I make no friends, I've got no spark" -comparison to the sun
I'm not totally bought on this interpretation, though. There's some other parts to the song that are really cool but I can't figure out.
Also, I looked up "tried and true" and it means: reliable, proven to be good, time-tested, worthy. Not sure what that could mean for the song, but it sort of strikes me as a rebellious act, perhaps done out of spite? Maybe the moon is fed up with the sun getting all the attention.