Broken Chairs Lyrics
Out beyond the quieted garden
You can bring the man form into trust
Through the holes in my everydayness
Cause my brain's a dictionary
Of long spring days and the speech of crows
In the fallen sun
Alright
You can make it stay
I love how this song flows. It's like one really long beautiful musical sentence with whistling for commas.
Obviously, IMHO:
'Broken Chairs your body conforms to' refers to less than ideal situations we learn to get comfortable with. The 'quieted garden' also refers to the same phenomenon - the comfort of a pseudo-ideal life, mired in compromises and creature comforts.
'Lends sustenance when starvation's necessary' is a phenomenon many artists experience. See, a lot of the time, you realize that you can't adequately grow while you're stuck in a comfortable rut - what you need is to be shocked out of your comfort zone. You need 'starvation' - trials and tribulations to help you grow. But you can't, because you comfortable. Broken chairs.
'Long spring days' refers to a long time spent, in youth, enjoying these comfortable, beautiful experiences - but crows, who are mirrors of apprehension - hearkens to the encroaching fear of death. Is it worth it to escape our comfort to experience more of the world before we die, or is the ultimate goal to be as happy as possible?
Basically this song encapsulates a common dilemma - do we choose to undertake hardship to grew and become better, or do we settle for our current, comfortable, but less-than-ideal existence? How do we deal with that question in the face of our encroaching mortality?
this is the best built to spill song. why am i the first one to say this?!??!?!?
@youngjoo. I also absolutely love this song! Last time I saw them in Detroit almost 2 years ago. They played this as one of their last songs. Rocked it out! They did a cover song of The Smiths "Here is now" fuckin blew me away!
@youngjoo. I also absolutely love this song! Last time I saw them in Detroit almost 2 years ago. They played this as one of their last songs. Rocked it out! They did a cover song of The Smiths "Here is now" fuckin blew me away!
Obviously, IMHO:
'Broken Chairs your body conforms to' refers to less than ideal situations we learn to get comfortable with. The 'quieted garden' also refers to the same phenomenon - the comfort of a pseudo-ideal life, mired in compromises and creature comforts.
'Lends sustenance when starvation's necessary' is a phenomenon many artists experience. See, a lot of the time, you realize that you can't adequately grow while you're stuck in a comfortable rut - what you need is to be shocked out of your comfort zone. You need 'starvation' - trials and tribulations to help you grow. But you can't, because you comfortable. Broken chairs.
'Long spring days' refers to a long time spent, in youth, enjoying these comfortable, beautiful experiences - but crows, who are mirrors of apprehension - hearkens to the encroaching fear of death. Is it worth it to escape our comfort to experience more of the world before we die, or is the ultimate goal to be as happy as possible?
Basically this song encapsulates a common dilemma - do we choose to undertake hardship to grew and become better, or do we settle for our current, comfortable, but less-than-ideal existence? How do we deal with that question in the face of our encroaching mortality?
i think its one of the best, the whistling is awesome
This really is an amazing song, and the perfect choice for the end of an album. I love the version on the live cd, the rawness of the guitars really bring so much emotion into the mix.
great song
I'm really not sure what this song means, but I've always had the impression that it is about how society can confine and restrict people or even force them into a mold: "Broken Chairs your body conforms to"
the melody sometimes reminds me of 1 is the loneliest number.
going away from your happy spot / quieted garden, to transform into something unattractive / another broken chair [aka one who has to support so much in everyday life yet still have to keep doing it while you're already useless]. it makes the world look like a cheapskate.