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Winged Wicked Things Lyrics
Well I say it's just smoke
So you say it's the hair of ghosts So I say it's the white hair of Poseidon Ebbing in the tide in some dead sea So you say it's some Shroud of Turin And the sun wore it white and the earth wore it thin Or the sun wore it white and His faith wore it thin Unraveling heavenward It's saddled to tiny birds Or other such winged things Either way they are struggling Either way they are miniature Either way they're invisible But either way they're confused As Hell would have them And the pattern of flight is chaotic and blind But it's right cause chaos is yours and it's mine And chaos is luck and like love and love blind The pattern of flight is chaotic and blind But it's right cause chaos is yours and chaos is mine mine mine mine And chaos is love and they say love is blind But they're subject to hating us Oh, just like the rest of us Oh, we're just like the rest of us They need the rest of us to stay alive So thats not where confusion lies That's not where illusions to the fact that the truth is just smoke in your eyes Does lie Confusion lies in which other wicked things do lie with Confusion lies in which other wicked things do lie with And chaos is yours And chaos is mine And chaos is love and they say love is blind So I say oh I see now it's just smoke So I say oh I see now it's just smoke Oh I say oh I see now it's just smoke Oh I say oh I see now it's just smoke
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08-26-2006
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09-21-2006
So you say it's the Shroud of Turin-
and
The sun weren't white and his faith wore it thin-
This is another breathtaking song from Sunset Rubdown, though. I heartily recommend downloading it.
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10-04-2006
"And chaos is yours,
And chaos is mine
And chaos is luck and like luck and love blind
So I say, oh, I see now
It's just smoke"
This is an amazing song. To me it is about religious fanatics of all faiths. He says, "So I say it's the white hair of Poseiden
Ebbing the tide in some dead sea
So you say it's ths shroud of Turin".
He is saying we all have different beliefs about God or higer powers. One may be Christian and another may be mythology. But all beliefs are bound by one common fact; they all base their beliefs on abstract "invisible" things like "wicked winged things" also known as angels or demons (depending on how you look at it). But then he says that all this leads us in chaotic lives but beware to write believers off as irratioinal because love is also chaotic and we all believe in love.
He goes on;
"But they're subject to hating us
Oh, just like the rest of us
Oh, but just like the best of us
They need the rest of us to stay alive"
One group may be hated by another and wonder why, but if they look at them selves, they hate right back. And their leaders hate too! But if there were no believers, there would be no church or God HImself.
He then ends the song by stateing.
"So I say, oh, I see now
It's just smoke"
We are all fighting over things that don't really matter, getting obsessed an blinded by the smoke when there are more important things to get to.
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07-29-2007
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07-29-2007
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08-10-2007
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08-30-2007
and in this song the second verse has violins so maybe he was mentioning this song
but i could be wrong
just a guess
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09-25-2007
Ah, yes, the lyrical analysis; it's pretty obvious that this song is about religion, but what it says about it is up to each's interpretation. I think it's about how every religion tries to explain what seems unexplainable or see a simple thing as a vast act of mythic and mystical proportion. "It's just a cloud" to one person could be "An Omen of Death" to another... or Smoke could be mistaken as an article of Jesus "Christ" or a pagan God's beard; it's just all a fallacy and over-analyzing (talk about over-analyzing =D)
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09-25-2007
Ah, yes, the lyrical analysis; it's pretty obvious that this song is about religion, but what it says about it is up to each's interpretation. I think it's about how every religion tries to explain what seems unexplainable or see a simple thing as a vast act of mythic and mystical proportion. "It's just a cloud" to one person could be "An Omen of Death" to another... or Smoke could be mistaken as an article of Jesus "Christ" or a pagan God's beard; it's just all a fallacy and over-analyzing (talk about over-analyzing =D)
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09-28-2007
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10-01-2007
Violins are also brought up in Child Heart Losers.
"Why so many many many many many violins?"
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10-01-2007
Violins are also brought up in Child Heart Losers.
"Why so many many many many many violins?"
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12-29-2007
So I say, oh I've seen her, it's just smoke
So I say oh I see now it's just smoke
Oh I say oh I've seen her, it's just smoke
Oh I say oh I see now it's just smoke
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03-29-2008
"confusion lies in which other wicked things do lie with"
is really
"confusion lies in which of the wicked things you lie with"
referencing everyones confusion on their beliefs and why they believe them
I think that spencer is simply stating that everyone is lying when they speak their belief because no one knows for sure if what they believe is true Hence "so i say oh i see know its just smoke"
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03-29-2008
in the taming of the hands that came back to life he says
"when the sail starts flying in the wind i say cool that looks cool"
could this be a reference also to the shroud of turin being saddled to birds and unraveling heaven words
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03-29-2008
that maybe spencer is simply stating that no religion is right
and all of this is chaos
so i say oh i see now its just smoke
you say its the hair of ghosts
simply put i think hes just denouncing religion for it causing so much conflict between so many people who are all one in the same
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04-14-2008
He says its just smoke. Other person entertains that its the hair of ghosts (wouldn't that look like smoke?). He returns that its the white hair of poseidon and adds in more imagery. It starts to turn into a convo about religion. Shroud of Turin talk is about whether its the sun that wore it white and the earth that wore it thin or if its the son (of God... Jesus) that wore it white and his faith that wore it thin. Basically if religion is real or not, or at least the shroud of turin. But the smoke is made up of the shroud of turin and its being unravelled by tiny invisible birds that are struggling to make it rise.
Of course this is defined by chaos because of how smoke does rise. Then the whole chaos is luck, luck is love, and love is blind thing comes up and basically he is trying to logically tie chaos to being blind through luck and love in turn.
The next couple of verses I can't make too much sense of. I just think of it like... people need each other to survive. Maybe he's tying that to those birds and their chaos.
Anyways, in the end when he's saying so I say oh I see now its just smoke... he's either talking about the smoke really just being smoke or that the conversation is really just smoke because it doesn't really mean anything and isn't really meant to.
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09-12-2008
But personally, I like to think of it as... can you guess? A failed relationship song. Fashioned after one of my own.
It makes me think of the beginning of dating someone. Where you're both looking to the future. Thinking about how great the other is and how much potential you could have together. The smoke looks like all of these fantastic things.
Next, the birds are them when things begin to not look so good. They're struggling to stay in love. Things get 'chaotic' and they're falling apart. They're both to blame though ("Chaos is yours and chaos is mine").
Then finally he admits all that potential was just fantasy. "So I say, "Oh, I see now. It's just smoke."
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11-11-2008
I also thought it was:
And the sun "were" it white and the earth "were" it thin
He says a lot of words with an affect when he sings, so I still think it's possible that it's "were" and not "wore" :P
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02-06-2009
I say it's just smoke
So you say it's the hair of ghosts
So I say it's the white hair of poseidon
Ebbing in the tide in some dead sea
So you say it's some Shroud of Turin
And the sun wore it white and the earth wore it thin
Or the son wore it white and his faith wore it thin
Unravelling heavenward - it's saddled to tiny birds
Or other such winged things
Either way they are struggling
Either way they are miniature
Either way they're invisible
But either way they're confused as hell would have them
And the pattern of flight is chaotic and blind
But it's right because chaos is yours and it's mine
And chaos is luck, and luck: love and love: blind
(so) ba da da
The pattern of flihgt is chaotic and blind
But it's right cause chaos is yours
And chaos is mine, mine, mine
And chaos is love and they say "love is blind"
But they're subject to hating us, just like the rest of us
But just like the best of us
They need the rest of us to stay alive
So that's not where confusion lies
That's not where an allusion to the fact that the truth
Is just smoke in your eyes does lie
No
Confusion lies in which other wicked thing to lie with
And if chaos is yours then chaos is mine
And chaos is love and they say "love is blind"
So I say oh, I see now, it's just smoke...
The song's open for interpretation. I personally think that he's stating that truth is a matter of perspective and can... cloud an issue (the truth is just smoke in your eyes) so you can't see clearly.
People are willing to argue and fight over something - the exact same thing - just because they think the single entity is different. So perhaps it is about God. Different religions and even different branches of the same religion are willing to go to hell and back to fight over something they actually agree about; but because they are not willing to see the other's perspective, they are blind to the fact it's the same damn thing.
And we all need each-other, fights or not.
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