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You can make a plan
Carve it into stone
Like a feather falling
It is still unknown
Until the clock speaks up
Says it's time to go
You can choose the high
Or the lower road
You might clench your fist
You might fork your tongue
As you curse or praise
All the things you've done
And the faders move
And the music dies
As we pass over
On the arc of time
So you nurse your love like a wounded dove
In the covered cage of night
Every star is crossed by frenetic thoughts
That separate and then collide
And they twist like sheets until you fall asleep
Then they finally unwind
It's a black balloon
It's a dream you'll soon deny
I hear if you make friends
With Jesus Christ
You will get right up
From that chalk outline
And you'll get dolled up
And you'll dress in white
All to take your place
In his chorus line
And then in you'll come with those marching drums
In a saintly compromise
No more whisky slurs, no more blonde haired girls
For your whole eternal life
And you'll do the dance that was choreographed
At the very dawn of time
See, I told you son
The day would come
You will die, you die, you die, you die
You will die, you die, you die, you die
You will die, you die, you die, you die
You will die, you die, you die
To the deepest part of the human heart
The fear of death expands
Until we crack the code we have always known
But could never understand
On a circuit board we will soon be born
Again and again and again and again
And again and again and again and again
And again and again and again and again
And again and again and again and again
Carve it into stone
Like a feather falling
It is still unknown
Until the clock speaks up
Says it's time to go
You can choose the high
Or the lower road
You might clench your fist
You might fork your tongue
As you curse or praise
All the things you've done
And the faders move
And the music dies
As we pass over
On the arc of time
So you nurse your love like a wounded dove
In the covered cage of night
Every star is crossed by frenetic thoughts
That separate and then collide
And they twist like sheets until you fall asleep
Then they finally unwind
It's a black balloon
It's a dream you'll soon deny
I hear if you make friends
With Jesus Christ
You will get right up
From that chalk outline
And you'll get dolled up
And you'll dress in white
All to take your place
In his chorus line
And then in you'll come with those marching drums
In a saintly compromise
No more whisky slurs, no more blonde haired girls
For your whole eternal life
And you'll do the dance that was choreographed
At the very dawn of time
See, I told you son
The day would come
You will die, you die, you die, you die
You will die, you die, you die, you die
You will die, you die, you die, you die
You will die, you die, you die
To the deepest part of the human heart
The fear of death expands
Until we crack the code we have always known
But could never understand
On a circuit board we will soon be born
Again and again and again and again
And again and again and again and again
And again and again and again and again
And again and again and again and again
Lyrics submitted by elishacuthbertfan
Track duration: 03:54
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If you look at the title of this album, you can pretty much guess what it is about; how our world has become digital, such as digital ash in a digital urn. Even death doesn't mean what it used to. Now instead of actually taking the time to go to someones grave site to pay your respects, just simply go online to and send them digital flowers at their digital grave.
This song specifically is about the internet. "and the music dies as we pass over on the arc of time" refers to the how we aren't actually feeling, just pretending to feel on the internet. we live in this fantasy land of the grand vastness and escape of the internet."No more whiskey slurs no more blonde hair girls for your whole eternal life", once again repeating my point that we lose our reality. and the whole last verse talks of how we have been able to create the new great lives on the internet and be whoever we want to be, and if things don't turn out how you'd like, doesn't matter, make a new page, start again. I could keep going, but I doubt that most of you have even gotten this far on my little essay, seeing as the internet has trained our brains to go on to the next subject as fast as possible, and if you have to read, it's just going to slow you down, so what's the point.
obviously, conor has a great fear of death. it is expressed throughout the whole song.
this makes me sick and sad.
pass over on the arc of time- death.
also references to the fear everyone has of dying
The whole point of this song is that we know nothing and we can never be certain, and we are fools to think otherwise. When he repeats "you will die" it's to make it seem certain, to try to trick you. But what Conor's really trying to say is don't let them trick you. I mean yeah, you'll die for sure, but as he later goes on to say "on a circuit board we will soon be born again." I remember in another song him saying something similar, "and return to that which gave birth to me." He's talking about the same thing I think. I know what I think he's talking about, but that's up to you to decide. And I really doubt Conor is atheist. He doesn't seem religious but I can almost assure you that he's spiritual.