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Bike down, down to the downtown
Down to the lock down, boards, nails lie around
I crouch like a crow
Contrasting the snow
For the agony, I'd rather know
'Cause blinded I am blindsided
Peek in, into the peer in
I'm not really like this, I'm probably plightless
I cup the window
I'm crippled and slow
For the agony
I'd rather know
'Cause blinded I am blindsided
Would you really rush out for me now?
Taught line, down to the shoreline
The end of a blood line, the moon is a cold light
There's a pull to the flow
My feet melt the snow
For the irony, I'd rather know
'Cause blinded I was blindsided
'Cause blinded I was blindsided
'Cause blinded I was blindsided
Down to the lock down, boards, nails lie around
I crouch like a crow
Contrasting the snow
For the agony, I'd rather know
'Cause blinded I am blindsided
Peek in, into the peer in
I'm not really like this, I'm probably plightless
I cup the window
I'm crippled and slow
For the agony
I'd rather know
'Cause blinded I am blindsided
Would you really rush out for me now?
Taught line, down to the shoreline
The end of a blood line, the moon is a cold light
There's a pull to the flow
My feet melt the snow
For the irony, I'd rather know
'Cause blinded I was blindsided
'Cause blinded I was blindsided
'Cause blinded I was blindsided
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He's been blindsided by his lover cheating on him. He bikes down to downtown, to "the lockdown," to a poor area, maybe. He crouches beneath the window sill of the house of her or her supposed lover. For all the agony it will cause him to see this, he would rather know. So he peeks in. He's not really like this, it's not really like him to do something like this. "I'm probably plight-less." He's trying to convince himself that he's overreacting, she's probably not cheating, he might have just made up all the signs. He cups the window, he wants to know, would you really rush out like that? would you really cheat on me? Then he finds out.
She is cheating on him with someone else. He walks down to the shoreline to work it out. "The end of a blood line." He was thinking of having a family with her, but all those thoughts are gone now.
I love the little detail of the first few times being "I am blindsided," and then the last ones instead saying "I was blindsided." He was blindsided, but now he knows.
"Peek in, into the pair in." - the pair of lovers inside.
"End of a bloodline" Again, end of an era. The end of something that was good, and was all he ever really knew. And it was something that he took for granted would always be there. "The moon is a cold light". I think this refers to his late realization. Light has been shown on the problem, but it's the moon's light. The day is over.
This is such an incredibly bittersweet song. Makes me cry every time. And like everything else, I'm probably projecting my own circumstances on this song through my interpretation, but I think it can be agreed no matter how one interprets this song, its fucking beautiful.
"Bike down, down to the downtown
Down to the lock down, boards, nails lie around."
I think he's returning to his hometown, only to see how much it's changed since he left. He visits the old hangouts, his old friends' homes, to find them either vacated, closed down, or taken over by new people.
"I crouch like a crow
Contrasting the snow
For the agony, I'd rather know
'Cause blinded I am blindsided."
I think he's outside one of those friends' houses, except this friend happens to still be living here. Maybe it's a past love, or just someone who he used to be close with...it could even be a family member that he hasn't spoken to in years. He crouches down so he won't be seen. I basically agree with ashabella04's interpretation on the "agony" line. It's being so consumed by depression that you end up giving in to it, because it's all you've ever known, and you don't believe it's possible to break free from it. You don't even want to get better because you think it's hopeless. He could be "blindsided" by the severe depression, "blind" meaning his mind, his whole POV on life, is clouded. He's screwed up because of the mental illness. That's what makes the song so sad...it's not even the REAL him anymore.
"Peek in, into the peer in
I'm not really like this, I'm probably plightless."
Obviously he's now looking into the window of this house. The second line is one of my favorites - it's that self-hatred for even being sad. Like, "why do I deserve to be upset? I have no REAL problems. How dare I complain? Stop whining and feeling sorry for yourself." This negativity just comes right back around and takes the person further into the depression. It's a chain reaction.
"I cup the window
I'm crippled and slow
For the agony
I'd rather know
'Cause blinded I am blindsided."
Still at the window, he's probably overcome with emotions, memories, and momentary hesitation (I'll get to that later). Instead of changing his mind, he pushes his doubts aside, and says goodbye. He doesn't want to interrupt this friend/former love/family member. So instead of ringing the door bell, he "cups the window", sort of hugging the person one last time.
"Would you really rush out for me now?"
This is another favorite. It's so desperate sounding, like he doesn't believe anyone would want to see him, let alone save him. Maybe he did something in the past that caused him to stay away for so long. It's also really bittersweet, because it suggests that if this person HAD rushed out, by chance, and found him - it might have prevented the future.
"Taut line, down to the shoreline
The end of a blood line, the moon is a cold light."
He walks down to the water. Probably a lake, not an ocean, since there's snow. He apparently knows this place well enough to get there in short time (taut line), which is why I believe it's his hometown. Now the "end of a blood line" is what makes me feel it takes a darker turn than what ashabella04 thought. His mission throughout this whole song was to say goodbye to his home, his friends, his family, even if he didn't really tell them. It was a silent closure he needed before he took his own life and ended his family's bloodline.
"There's a pull to the flow
My feet melt the snow
For the irony, I'd rather know
'Cause blinded I was blindsided."
Pull to the flow makes me think of blood loss, specifically a fatal bloodletting in the wrists. Sorry to be morbid, but since I'm already talking about suicide, then what the hell, might as well be. Anyways, his feet melting the snow is ironic because he's dying. His body temp is getting colder, yet he's still warm enough to melt the snow. Although that could be totally wrong, I have no fucking idea. The possibilities are endless - maybe the friend/love/family member that he didn't see in town was at the lake already/or showed up one minute too late? Maybe it's ironic because he was a therapist who helped people overcome their own depression? IDK.
It's so sad, because I feel there were many chances for him. He second-guessed himself at the window, reliving the good moments. Seeing someone he used to know made him hesitate - sadly not enough. If only one person had seen him, maybe they would have stopped him for a visit, derailing his plan. Maybe if he had just knocked on the door of that house, the one with the person he thought wouldn't "rush out" for him, it would have changed the whole course of things.
I've always heard the song this way, for some reason...I think it's because I'm a freak who tends to obsess about vague lyrics until they get so twisted in my mind that they're able to serve my extremely convoluted theories that all somehow end in terrible death and sadness. Yes, that's a run-on sentence. Bite me.
***I'm sorry to anyone who's read through this emo bullshit. Please be nice?*** :)
He biked downtown to relive memories, only to see nails and boards lying around, as though the town itself is old as he is. He crouches down on the snow in pain/disease due to his old age. He is dying. He wants to accept this idea though.
He goes to his childhood home, peers in the windows, fully accepting his lost years and his life coming to an end. He isn't usually like this, accepting mortality stuff. He is old, crippled, and slow, not like his past. He must have been prideful back in the day, feeling as though he could live forever.
He remarks on God and the Angels as he nears death, asking them if they would really rush out this quick to receive them, as though it is not his time. He is once again reverting to his prideful immortality
Finally, he walks down to the town's shoreline. Its night out, and it is here he realizes it is finally time to die. He is the last of his bloodline, and he laments that this is the end of his family's blood. It is a cold thought. The shore ebbs and flows, and his felt melt the snow as he stands for a final few moments.
Here he realizes the irony of his own understanding. His heart made him walk this final journey so his mind could understand that it is his time to die. Cause in the end, if he remained blind to his own mortality, he would have been blindsided by death, and that is not a great way to die.
Just my opinion!
And the main line “Cause blinded I am blindsided”, means to me that by ‘her’ he was blinded... and therefore blindsided- seeing only half of the situation as she was hiding, or he was kind of hiding from himself, the truth.
Bike down... down to the downtown
Down to the lockdown... boards, nails lie around- Pretty obvious. He’s just setting the scene(biking down to where she is... possibly in what sounds like a shed with someone else.
I crouch like a crow- Showing us that he is being sneaky/ not meant to be seen.
Contrasting the snow
For the agony, I'd rather know – For even though it may be painful, I have to know the truth.
The first 2 verses are basically just describing the setting and that he’s “not really like this” (someone who spies and is suspicious).
“I cup the window crippled and slow”- Just his movement; he cups the window (i.e. peering into the window through the cup he makes in his hands. Slow in movement cause he’s sneaking. For again, even though it maybe agonising, he wants to know the truth.)
And “would you really rush out for me now?” could be him saying if she (whoever ‘she’ is) saw him looking through the window, catching her in the act, would she care enough to rush out to him.
-“I’m probably plight less.” Without promise or betrothal (engagement or promised to one another. This shown through her actions of cheating on him- she hasn’t kept her/a promise to him i.e. to not cheat)
-“Taught line... down to the shoreline
The end of a blood line... the moon is a cold light”.
Here he is again setting the scene (For me I see him just walking in thought to the shoreline.) whilst basically saying it’s the end of his blood line for he has lost his love- the woman who would have had his children thus continuing his “bloodline”. And also the moon being described as a “cold light”; I think this could mean it is a harsh reality, as its shares “light” on his situation i.e. uncovers and exposes truths. It is cold and painful.
-Could you really rush out, far enough ?
And even if that idea now seems ''pointless'' in that song, it made sense to me to point the idea that when you're confused and restless 'cause of a strong idea blinding you, you often wanna rush out of all that bullshit. Made sense to me since the guy actually fled in the wood to make the point about his life after all the losses he had, that question feel calming and pertinent to anybody who ever crept in that big moving world.
"cause blinded,i am blindsided" and "would u really rush out for me now?"
i tried to interpret this song sentence by sentence and my head nearly exploded, i just cant
i got the impression of someone helpless in this song
so, the overall picture: he knows that there's something wrong but he doesnt know what his problem is.
he tried to understand (i crouch like a crow, contrasting the snow, for the agony, i'd rather know) but still it's useless, cause i think he's oblivious (cause blinded, i am blindsided ; i'm not really like this, i'm probably plightless)
and i think after all the hard way he's gone through to understand his problem is, he still cant figure it out, and he's kinda helpless and need someone to help him i think (would you really rush out for me now?)
so thats it, it's only my interpretation though :)
amazing song!!
the first line is
"Back down, down to the downtown"
having been through this before, he's back to square one in a way.
Also;
"Taut line, down to the shoreline"
"I come through the window
I'm crippled and slow"