This is the only New Pornographers song I've heard with this uneasy tone in it, and I'm only missing their Whiteout Conditions album.
To me, the song's about feeling quite uneasy, and a day (or period of time, or just "time") started; it began in terror, and it ended in terror. It might have advertised itself as salvation, but it ended as it truly was.
The singer's involved; "Oh blast, I drank the wrong draft down." In other words, he got involved. It's an old way of speaking, like that Bible verse of Jesus' disciples asking to drink the cup Jesus drinks - not the same cup that the singer here drinks, mind you.
I'm not sure why the names "Madrigal" and "Marigold" are used here. I refuse to blindly believe that they're irrelevant, though. But why don't they come out and play, or help, or whatever?
Some of the words are about having faith in a false prophet, which causes anxiety and terror and uneasiness. The prophet's smiles are exaggerated, and they're all for show. They're painted on, and what's behind the mask? Nothing of loving, considerate, Christlike kindness. "When you claim to see for miles, you don't, but I believe that you do."
This is the only New Pornographers song I've heard with this uneasy tone in it, and I'm only missing their Whiteout Conditions album.
To me, the song's about feeling quite uneasy, and a day (or period of time, or just "time") started; it began in terror, and it ended in terror. It might have advertised itself as salvation, but it ended as it truly was.
The singer's involved; "Oh blast, I drank the wrong draft down." In other words, he got involved. It's an old way of speaking, like that Bible verse of Jesus' disciples asking to drink the cup Jesus drinks - not the same cup that the singer here drinks, mind you.
I'm not sure why the names "Madrigal" and "Marigold" are used here. I refuse to blindly believe that they're irrelevant, though. But why don't they come out and play, or help, or whatever?
Some of the words are about having faith in a false prophet, which causes anxiety and terror and uneasiness. The prophet's smiles are exaggerated, and they're all for show. They're painted on, and what's behind the mask? Nothing of loving, considerate, Christlike kindness. "When you claim to see for miles, you don't, but I believe that you do."