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Death, data entry, ant hill law
Encoded arc, our common cause
Drink liquid clocks until I see God
Crystal display, can't turn it off
Shh . . . shhh . . . shhhh
Don't talk, don't talk
Encoded arc, our common cause
Drink liquid clocks until I see God
Crystal display, can't turn it off
Shh . . . shhh . . . shhhh
Don't talk, don't talk
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Track duration: 03:54
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So, what I (!) made of this line was: drink the time away, until your dead and it's too late. And that's not even limited to alcoholics, that goes for anyone hurrying through the week towards any next friday, that's working 5 days, for having 2 days off, if you're not enjoying the way your life goes (and therefore want it to go faster/drink liquid cloks), make a change, it WILL be too late, someday. That's what I made of it, what I made to help ME, and there's no being wrong.
"drink liquid clocks until I see god" : how time slips through his fingers, and suddenly, the end is there
the next line is about crystal meth, clearly, his addiction (like, you hear the ragged breathing?)
Death Data entry, anthill law
(Almost clinical study of human death,and that we are numb,like ants)
encoded arc, our commen cause
(We all die, it is what we are planned to do)
Drink liquid clocks till I see god
(This is about remorse for death. About drinking to make it go away.Clocks= time so drinking liquid time is drinking to forget)
Crystal desplay cant turn it off
(this is about that even with achohol You can still see and remember)
Shh..Shhh... Dont talk dont talk
(This is about the loss and despair they feel)
The rest of the musical techo bits are ambient and moody
There are always so many pictures that ome to my head when I listen to this awsome song
thought i'd share something from it, in case you don't have the cd;
"they invented LOVE all right
But they still can't make the right
plastic or metal or whatever to hold it all in
So it just keeps leaking (insert water sounds)
all over everything (insert everything)
dripping and splashing/making music
Gives me an ear infection
[This record is dedicated to stella mogis and rosemarie gentile whose coming and going have somehow helped this whole mess of a world make sense.]
Now my equilibrium's fucked.
So i'm holding onto the railing all the way down.
And i'm asking for your shoulder on the way up
If you help me when i'm frightened i will help you when you're drunk.
promise you know nothing, and you're someone i can trust.
Neverminding hot DEATH on our heals
But never forgetting it either."
intense writing, i think.
this is a fantastic intro to a truly wondrous album.
with only a few lines Conor is able to sum up the entire album. i love all of the double-entendres that are used. "crystal display, can't turn it off" sounds like he is taking crystal meth and disguising it as a computer screen, comparing our addiction to media and the digitalisation of the world to his addiction to drugs.
alot of Digital Ash has to do with life, death and rebirth and the themes revolve around drugs more than once.
"drink liquid clocks 'til I see God" can be ref to alcohol. Conor was raised catholic and catholics are often stereotyped as alcoholics (which everyone knows Conor is).
the rest of the song just speaks of death, drugs and the way people squabble for control over things ("ant hill law"?). and of course underneath all of this repeated digital imagery we've got a wonderful melange of electronic instruments and sounds.
pretty kickassery for an intro. :]