I didn't know what comment type this should be. I'm not really commenting on the lyrics at all, but I want to draw peoples' attention to the intro of this song. When I first heard it, it bugged me, because it's all these disparate sounds that don't quite fit, and they're being layered one after another, and you don't quite get the chance to acclimate to what the feel of the rest of the song is going to be, because it keeps changing, and getting more and more frenzied. But for whatever reason, it was so effective that I couldn't stop listening to it, and for the longest time, I couldn't figure out why.
Here, I'm trying to put into words how it makes me feel, but I'm not sure it gets across my meaning. I'm fairly sure that this was not completely what Michael Angelakos had in mind when he was writing it, and I'm sure as hell not sure my interpretation of it has any relevance to any of you. Anyway. The sounds just sound so desperate to be heard, or rescued, or something. Maybe they all think they're alone. I don't know. In light of the song title, and with their whiny, almost chiptuney voices, they make me think of an island of misfit toys. And then suddenly there's one last shriek they all go silent, and "It's gotten cold in here" comes right after the inevitable chill I always get at that moment.
I don't have any personal connection whatsoever to suicide, so I would feel a little callous saying something like, "This song means so much to me," or worse, "This is so real," but that intro is, to me, more demonstrative of just how much I don't know about pain than any lyrics I've ever heard.
I didn't know what comment type this should be. I'm not really commenting on the lyrics at all, but I want to draw peoples' attention to the intro of this song. When I first heard it, it bugged me, because it's all these disparate sounds that don't quite fit, and they're being layered one after another, and you don't quite get the chance to acclimate to what the feel of the rest of the song is going to be, because it keeps changing, and getting more and more frenzied. But for whatever reason, it was so effective that I couldn't stop listening to it, and for the longest time, I couldn't figure out why.
Here, I'm trying to put into words how it makes me feel, but I'm not sure it gets across my meaning. I'm fairly sure that this was not completely what Michael Angelakos had in mind when he was writing it, and I'm sure as hell not sure my interpretation of it has any relevance to any of you. Anyway. The sounds just sound so desperate to be heard, or rescued, or something. Maybe they all think they're alone. I don't know. In light of the song title, and with their whiny, almost chiptuney voices, they make me think of an island of misfit toys. And then suddenly there's one last shriek they all go silent, and "It's gotten cold in here" comes right after the inevitable chill I always get at that moment.
I don't have any personal connection whatsoever to suicide, so I would feel a little callous saying something like, "This song means so much to me," or worse, "This is so real," but that intro is, to me, more demonstrative of just how much I don't know about pain than any lyrics I've ever heard.