Oblivion Lyrics

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Cover art for Oblivion lyrics by M83

--i/me: speaker of truth

--you: embracer and perpetuator (not perpetrator, but also maybe yes, perpetrator) of lies, for various reasons.

--since i was young i knew i'd find you: i've had a feeling about reality my whole life. I had a feeling things weren't quite as they were presented to be. I knew i'd find you out, find your secret, find you hiding, figure out the cover, distinguish lies from truth.

--our love: your term for your relationship to me.

--the death of the swan: the inevitability of the relationship of truth and lies. Lies cannot defeat truth, only disguise it and make happiness crumble. whatever happens was always going to happen, the swan only sings when it dies.

--the night: your illusions of reality that you sustain through deceit and delusion

--me calling: my continuing to share the truth with you no matter how angry it makes you, no matter how much it hurts

--your dreams: your fantasies, odd hopes, dark desires (odd because the failure of truth is an odd thing to hope for, same for dark)

--me/us falling: your desire for me/us to fail, for me/us to be incorrect about reality (me+truth=us (me+you≠us)) so that you do not have to face the pain of it.

--the light: truth, reality

--the shadow: a place to rest while i bide my time waiting for the sign (see below). For example the shadow of a tree on a sunny day in summer when it is hot and dry, where reality is not obscured but you are offered relief from the intensity of the light (see above) and are better able to discern it because it is too intense to see without the aid of the shadow.

--the sign: whatever, i'll know it when i see it.

--the tide: the number of people believing in the truth, speaking the truth, not lying, not hiding, not covering, not manipulating

--long nights: long periods of living in your dreams (see "your dreams" above).

--stars: the ascended, loving and benevolent creatures.

--recall your goodbye: always remembering you, remembering truth, remembering reality, and remembering that which was false as well.

--breathe in the light and say goodbye: my advice to you on how to pull yourself out of the night and your dreams (see above) and find me again if you succeed as i ascend, saying goodbye, or hopefully just...see you later.

--piano solo at the end: my little trail of breadcrumbs that, if followed, will lead you straight out of the hell (the night, your dreams), and into the realm of the benevolent and loving ascended.

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