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To scratched out, for everything.
Night fell on me writing this and I ran out of paper so I crossed the name out at the top of the page. Not sure why I'm even writing this. But I guess it feels right. It sort of feels like I have to-like an exorcism.
I guess that makes me sound crazy but that's alright. Lately I feel like I might be, not that I've heard any voices or anything. Just like that everyday kind, where you forget things you shouldn't and you think too much about death.
Maybe you know what I'm talking about. Or maybe you would have known? Or had known?
Is it once knew? I don't know what tense to use.
I know I never used to feel like this. I used to never think of death or hear voices. I used to feel Like everything was perfectly in order, a normal life, but I guess then came a departure.
That I know you understand (or would've understood?). I guess things changed after that, and I'm mostly scared now.
But it's there in the stories, or whatever they are. You can see it. Anybody could if they could Look. I wrote some notes in the margins explaining it. The rest is in between lines or in the fine Print. First, the feeling of abandonment, then trying to cope. Then death and hope and the thing Itself, waiting for me. It's all there in the pages ahead of here. It's there waiting for you.
Or for me. I'm not sure.
The whole story.
Night fell on me writing this and I ran out of paper so I crossed the name out at the top of the page. Not sure why I'm even writing this. But I guess it feels right. It sort of feels like I have to-like an exorcism.
I guess that makes me sound crazy but that's alright. Lately I feel like I might be, not that I've heard any voices or anything. Just like that everyday kind, where you forget things you shouldn't and you think too much about death.
Maybe you know what I'm talking about. Or maybe you would have known? Or had known?
Is it once knew? I don't know what tense to use.
I know I never used to feel like this. I used to never think of death or hear voices. I used to feel Like everything was perfectly in order, a normal life, but I guess then came a departure.
That I know you understand (or would've understood?). I guess things changed after that, and I'm mostly scared now.
But it's there in the stories, or whatever they are. You can see it. Anybody could if they could Look. I wrote some notes in the margins explaining it. The rest is in between lines or in the fine Print. First, the feeling of abandonment, then trying to cope. Then death and hope and the thing Itself, waiting for me. It's all there in the pages ahead of here. It's there waiting for you.
Or for me. I'm not sure.
The whole story.
Lyrics submitted by eltroyo11
Track duration: 03:32
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It's divided into four parts as the lyrics show in this song:
A Departure
"First, the feeling of abandonment":
Harder Harmonies
St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
Edit Your Hometown
A Letter
"Then trying to cope":
Safer in the Forest/Love Song for Poor Michigan
The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
A Poem
"Then death and hope":
King Park
Edward Benz, 27 Times
I See Everything
A Broken Jar
"And the thing itself, waiting for me":
All Our Bruised Bodies and the Whole Heart Shrinks
You and I in Unison
Every song beginning with "A..." provides the shift in content, and the layout of the entire album provides a sort of symmetry:
Introduction
3 songs
Shift
2 songs
Shift
3 songs
Shift
2 songs
There are various references to "Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair" throughout the album, mostly towards the end:
Safer in the Forest/Love Song for Poor Michigan: "I will hold these old streets sweetly in my head like her." (Specifically Andria: "So dear, no matter how we part, I hold you sweetly in my head.")
All Our Bruised Bodies and the Whole Heart Shrinks: "Did you find your lover laying in your bedroom with another and then did you let it hover over you and everything else well after the fact?" (References the entire album.)
You and I in Unison: "When I sing, don't I sing your name right at the same time that I sing my own?"
"I will sing sweetly..."
"I'll sing your name in every line, just like I did throughout this, just like I've always done."
"Until I die, I will sing our names in unison." (All referencing lines from Andria.)