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a man should die gaunt,
and not bloated and overdone,
there should be new words hidden,
in the shadows on his face,
and like a wine glass, in a perfect pitch, he breaks,
we're being dumped into order out of buckets of sea salt,
what was the first condiment?
but always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't
flowers are how plants laugh,
and not by joke or to ridicule,
i never saw my parents,
try to make a thing like me
in time in the bathroom mirror,
i learned to accept my body.
i got jumped into living by a coven of midwives,
under a dracula-caped eclipse,
like cutting through watermelon meat with a wire,
you shoot sick from the hip and never miss.
all the things inside me i assume,
are doing what they need to be doing,
and always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't.
always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't.
looks like a sky for shoeing horses under..
looks like a sky, of some kind
and not bloated and overdone,
there should be new words hidden,
in the shadows on his face,
and like a wine glass, in a perfect pitch, he breaks,
we're being dumped into order out of buckets of sea salt,
what was the first condiment?
but always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't
flowers are how plants laugh,
and not by joke or to ridicule,
i never saw my parents,
try to make a thing like me
in time in the bathroom mirror,
i learned to accept my body.
i got jumped into living by a coven of midwives,
under a dracula-caped eclipse,
like cutting through watermelon meat with a wire,
you shoot sick from the hip and never miss.
all the things inside me i assume,
are doing what they need to be doing,
and always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't.
always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't.
looks like a sky for shoeing horses under..
looks like a sky, of some kind
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Let's consider the title of the album "Eskimo Snow" and it's relationship to the titular lyric: "All my words for sadness, like Eskimo snow". He's playing off of the belief that Eskimo's have hundreds of words for snow as a metaphor for album's hundreds of words exploring his depression, fears, anxieties and insecurities. Quite brilliant, imho.
But let's not stop there. Below is an excerpt from every song to back up my previously stated belief:
"These hands are my father's hands but smaller, soaked in paint thinner til they're so dry coming together they make a shril sound like two moving tires touching, hide nothing."
"now my bike tires flat, i must have run over some glass in the dark, or it might have got slashed cause I was messing around with someone's ex-girlfriend again"
"oh am i too concerned with the burn of scrutiny[...]will i gain weight in later life and when will someone swing a scythe against me!"
"my true purpose which i will have taken the care to have kept hidden even from myself my whole life"
"i wish i could feel close to somebody but i don't feel nothing. now they say i need to quit doing all this random ffff-[...]and i know saying all this in public should make me feel funny, but ya gotta yell something out you'd never tell nobody."
"in time in the bathroom mirror i learned to accept my body."
"The rat that's caught in the ribs of me will be released within the year"
"Will this new year's see my rotting hair's release? Will my new black book pull the sick from my deepest creases?"
"i wanna speak at an intimate decibel with the precision of an infinite decimal; to listen up and send back a true echo of something forever felt but never heard. i want that sharpened steel of truth in every word"
"Then I'm still here. Bearing my watery fruits if fruits at all. Then I'm still here. Barely understanding what truth that rarely calls."
Brilliant.
try to make a thing like me
in time in the bathroom mirror,
i learned to accept my body."
This line was used before in the Odd Nosdam song "Kill Tone Two"
What kind of sky makes one say "oh, this is a sky for shoeing horses under?" Is that some other old expression I didn't know about, like "mouthing watermelon"?
If you apply that to the song's context... it makes sense..
I think the "shoeing horses under" refers to suicide, in a vague way. Kind of like pushing your problems away. If you think about it, I'm sure herding horses is difficult, as is suicide, and a very burdensome task. But it's pushing problems aside? Just analyzing since nobody else is.
Seriously? In the Shadows of My Embrace, One Rose, and On Rose Walk Insomniac are my early favorites off the album (only listened to it once). One Rose is awesome. I love the beginning of it. It sounds nothing like the usual Why? weirdness, but it's great.
"flowers are how plants laugh."
really?