| At the Drive-In – Arcarsenal Lyrics | 10 months ago |
| @[grungeboy:47606] agreed. also, think of the shape that a bomb (part of the arsenal) takes when it falls...an arc. | |
| Songs: Ohia – Farewell Transmission Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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The song is about a desperate sort of sadness and regret that drives you away from everyone you know and love. The lyrics - a Farewell Transmission - can be read as sort of an explanation why he's going off on into the desert, literally or metaphorically. Boiled down, Jason is basically saying "I give up; I'm moving on" - whether it's a relationship or life itself (he did pretty much drink himself to death). Desert imagery is woven throughout the lyrics - "there ain't no end to the sands that I'll cross", as well as references to death and the coldness of nature - fossil fire, fossil blood, dead moon, "dust my feathers with his ashes". He is acknowledging that something major in his life is ending, and that "there's no end to the desert I'll cross" (to get away from his problems or himself), ,and worse, "I've really known it all along". My favorite line - "Must be the big star about to fall" - imparts a sense of impending doom - something big and bad is about to happen. "Long dark blues" is a beautiful phrase because it has the obvious meaning about sadness, but it also uses that same imagery he uses throughout the song that makes you feel like he's singing to you in the desert on a cold night. The ending stanza, as the music fades away and the instruments break off one by one until just vocals are left, is Jason describing how he's fading away, as he fades away. "Will of the wisp" (a floating ball of light), making his final sign-off, "through the static and distance". The repeated "listen" in between "long dark blues" at the very end is his last warning to you not to do what he's done, because this is what it leads to. |
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