Nova Heart Lyrics

Lyric discussion by alloowishus 

Cover art for Nova Heart lyrics by Spoons, The

The song is kind of pretentious, but then again most are when you are in your twenties. I think it is about someone feeling ill at ease with the way the world is structured by the "elites", i.e. artists and architects. The way architecture and art can effect your behaviour. The author believes that we will soon not need these elites, perhaps because the world may be destroyed. In all this he feels at ease with his lover, and can sleep peacefully because not matter what happens, she will always be there, even if chaos arrives and destroys all the order that he knows. Her heart is a Nova heart, nova means "new" in latin, also suns go nova, meaning the burn up and explode. So she has an innocence, but he hopes the love won't burn out, the way architectural and artistic fads do.

Just my little interpretation.

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