I set up the recording rig for Paul Laxer to track Typhoon at Pendarvis Farm earlier this year and got to talk to Kyle a little bit. He's a great guy -- getting to know him seems to make his lyrics dig even deeper knowing his life.
I didn't ask him about this song or its meaning, but to me it seems to be about a widower of someone who had a drug addiction or another disease-related death. It plays on death in so many ways; as @milesaway said, Kyle has Lyme disease. However, I think his own thoughts bleed into the narration of a wife and her husband instead of intentionally directing to Kyle, because he is still alive.
"Your help is on the way/ Just sing yourself a song and wait" foreshadows a character looming over the death in the second verse. "Then the suffering, one way or the other/ It will go away" either through getting a fix to stop withdrawal suffering or an overdose (again, my interpretation).
"He lay down on the kitchen floor/ You struggled but you could not afford/ The weight." It sounds like the main character's lover passes out, she tries to carry him somewhere but can't lift him, or a metaphor for letting go. Then "Your help is on the way" could mean that the ambulance is coming and she just has to comfort herself in the meantime.
The lines before those seem to invoke a memory as she is living day-to-day: "It's quiet and you wake/ You make the bed for two you always make/ Though half empty from some days before." It seems clear someone is dead.
The rest of the song is so beautiful and powerful. The themes of death and forfeit seem to recur. Just my thoughts. :)
I set up the recording rig for Paul Laxer to track Typhoon at Pendarvis Farm earlier this year and got to talk to Kyle a little bit. He's a great guy -- getting to know him seems to make his lyrics dig even deeper knowing his life.
I didn't ask him about this song or its meaning, but to me it seems to be about a widower of someone who had a drug addiction or another disease-related death. It plays on death in so many ways; as @milesaway said, Kyle has Lyme disease. However, I think his own thoughts bleed into the narration of a wife and her husband instead of intentionally directing to Kyle, because he is still alive.
"Your help is on the way/ Just sing yourself a song and wait" foreshadows a character looming over the death in the second verse. "Then the suffering, one way or the other/ It will go away" either through getting a fix to stop withdrawal suffering or an overdose (again, my interpretation).
"He lay down on the kitchen floor/ You struggled but you could not afford/ The weight." It sounds like the main character's lover passes out, she tries to carry him somewhere but can't lift him, or a metaphor for letting go. Then "Your help is on the way" could mean that the ambulance is coming and she just has to comfort herself in the meantime.
The lines before those seem to invoke a memory as she is living day-to-day: "It's quiet and you wake/ You make the bed for two you always make/ Though half empty from some days before." It seems clear someone is dead.
The rest of the song is so beautiful and powerful. The themes of death and forfeit seem to recur. Just my thoughts. :)