At the center where they go on weekdays
It takes hours just to slate that thirst
Heavy heels and a daunting post rate
Bad idea for your blistered toast
To my will well you’re getting close
So say adios
The conjecture is reject the rose
Don’t stay high on a abuse

Sometimes it feels like the world’s stuffed with feathers
Table bottom gum holding it together
A Cold Son
I am
A Cold Son

You can chase it but it wont come easy
It’s a revelry so silver quick
It gets solid when you’re old and hazy
Takes no leverage to make me click
To my will well you’re getting close
The tension goes
Defy conjecture and reject the rose
Don’t stay high on abuse

Who is that said the world is my oyster
I feel like a nempho trapped in a cloister
A cold son
I am
A cold son

Face plant stumble ahead
Victim of your rival pretensions know me
Face plant stumble ahead
Rival to the bitter pretensions know me

Cold son
I am
Cold son



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Track duration: 03:42


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    My Interpretation:I agree with Universal, it sounds like the resistance of natural feeling and vulnerability in the moment, to force a lifeless facade in competition with your "rival pretensions". I think the "son" part of the title was chosen because it's like a kid resisting his parents' guidance, who know what's best for him but he still tries to be something he's not.
    Flag teddyhoseon September 08, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Could be a lot of things. Maybe drugs. It also could be about addiction to exercise. I think it's more of a parable about getting old...and all the fears that come with it, death, love, are we wasting time, am I doing what I set out to do, that sort of thing.

    "Cool" could refer to being hip or temperature. "Son" could also be "sun" too.
    Flag supposablethumbson June 06, 2009   Link
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    My Interpretation:Sets up a great trilogy of tunes
    Flag trapperon February 16, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with bS.O.S. To me this song is about drug abuse. It may not be, but it sure can fit the profile lyrically. "Sometimes it feels like the worlds filled with feathers/table bottom gum holding it together", whatever it may be about, it's not about the best times in life.
    Flag woweezoweeon October 30, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i know exactly how table bottom gum holds everything together. you'll see. touch it when you're nervous.

    to me

    the song is an existential discussion about the physiology of exstacy, *It's* relationships,

    and Desire. consequently, Fear.

    Perhaps the eternal return of Desire and consumption are, in and of themselves, not somethings to be avoided.

    From this vantage point, intensity is objectified and projected alongside the original Subjects into the future.

    In any such projection, we recreate mirror images of ourselves - making real a world of assumption and illusion.
    Flag Universalon August 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i know exactly how table bottom gum holds everything together. you'll see. touch it when you're nervous.

    to me

    the song is an existential discussion about the physiology of exstacy, *It's* relationships,

    and Desire. consequently, Fear.

    Perhaps the eternal return of Desire and consumption are, in and of themselves, not somethings to be avoided.

    From this vantage point, intensity is objectified and projected alongside the original Subjects into the future.

    In any such projection, we recreate mirror images of ourselves - making real a world of assumption and illusion.
    Flag Universalon August 24, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I agree with Santiagof, great jam album. One of the best albums of the year. I think the song is about drug abuse though.
    Flag bS.O.S.on August 01, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with Santiagof, great jam album. One of the best albums of the year. I think the song is about drug abuse though.
    Flag bS.O.S.on August 01, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Some corrections:

    [slake] that thirst
    a daunting [pulse] rate
    blistered [toes] (as previously mentioned)
    to my [wheel well] you're getting close
    the tension [grows]
    a [reverie] so silver quick
    2nd verse - [accept] the rose

    The first verse makes me think about mallwalkers. 60-somethings powerwalking through the mall in their sweatsuits, checking their pulses.
    Flag bagofbeefon April 14, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:haha i think it's "blistered toes"...
    Flag scrumptiouson March 03, 2008   Link

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