incredible incredible incredible

This song is stunningly beautiful.

They really know how to close out an album. The whole album is amazing, but this really ties it up perfectly. Everything about it is absolutely beautiful, all the rises and falls...



I don't think I could have been more pleased with Veckatimest.

Before I offer the incomplete interpretation below, I would like to note that I hear "chuckle", not "juggle", in the fourth line. (A muffled chuckle would seem to make more sense than a muffled juggle.)

While the song lends itself to any number of wildly differing interpretations, I view it in this way:


"Take on another shift
Palms in the middle, hands in the middle"

-The narrator accepts more work; the 'hands in the middle' suggest the end of a huddle in a team-based competitive sport, the players demonstrating 'team spirit' by laying their hands on each other's hands in the middle of a circle, in an affirmation of solidarity and resolve. The narrator may be acting as a "team player", but not necessarily in accordance with personal desires.

"Work out another rift
Something is muffled, another chuckle"

-The narrator tries in earnest to mend a broken relationship, but is met with incredulity.

"A cross country miss
Take direction, can’t connect it"

-The narrator misses a cross-country flight and is forced to drive, relying on directions.


The other lyrics' meaning is anyone's guess, as far as I'm concerned. I believe the "foreground" the song refers to is the narrator's mundane and often frustrating daily life.

A more far-fetched interpretation might contrast 'foreground' with 'background'—what officials attempt to piece together and understand as it relates to a death or suicide.

Perhaps, the song is the narrator's explanation of the very real situations that might be considered, but not truly appreciated emotionally or viscerally, by investigators into the circumstances of a death or suicide.

A person's 'background' connotes something prosaic and dead, while a person's 'foreground' connotes something immediate and alive, the real experience of a real human being.

cagillette did a great job. awesome song.

this song is being used on an advert here in new zealand for starship children's hospital! :D

Pretty sure it's this-> "across country miles"

I always picture doctors and nurses at a hospital when I hear this song.

"Take on another shift, palms in the middle, hands in the middle"

Someone has taken another shift and as it starts everyone working creates a huddle and just hopes for a good shift.

"I’m afraid this is, Ten detected, nine in a wreck and…"

Nine in a wreck is a mass car crash that the hospital has to deal with, and it will "take all evening."

Combining it with cagilette's interpretation, this is the narrator's "foreground" or life.