Abandoner Lyrics

Lyric discussion by cidman 

Cover art for Abandoner lyrics by Steven Wilson

I agree with the suicide idea. The father of a my distant nephew and neice hung himself a year ago. Those kids are lost, as he abandoned them when young. He did not even recognize his own son whom he was asked to bail out of jail just before his death. Steve Wilson creates music like this that crawls up your spine and into your mind. I love the repetitive background and how he builds the frightening noise to a climax. I see this guy swinging from the tree too in my mind and the screwed up lives of these kids. Absolutely frightening thoughts that Steven conjures in his music. Recall the hanging tree in his opening track of Storm Corrosion (the You Tube video).

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