The wind-up bird Lyrics

Lyric discussion by oliverfrench 

Cover art for The wind-up bird lyrics by Tunng

i find these lyrics kind of hard to interpret. either they're pretty esoteric or i'm missing something obvious. still, if you haven't heard of it there's a book called the wind-up bird chronicle about a guy whose wife mysteriously disappears, and he spends much of the rest of the novel in the dark at the bottom of a well trying to break through a wall in his mind into a hotel room where a sinister figure is keeping his wife prisoner. or something. it's by a guy called haruki murakami and everything he writes is weird. the song could have something to do with that?

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