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Whenever I come back, the air on Railroad is making the same sounds,
And the shop fronts on Holly are dirty words (asterisks in for the vowels)
We peered through the windows, new bottoms on barstools but the people remain the same.
With prices inflating, as if saved from the gallows.
There's a bellow of buzzers and the people stop working and they're all so excited.
Passing through unconscious states, when I awoke, I was on the highway.
With your hands on my shoulders, a meaningless movement, a movie script ending.
And the patrons are leaving, now we all know the words were true
In the sappiest songs (yes, yes)
I'll put them to bed, but they won't sleep, they're just shuffling the sheets,
They toss and turn (you can't begin to get it back)
Passing through unconscious states, when I awoke, I was on the onset of a later stage:
The headlights are beacons on the highway.
And the shop fronts on Holly are dirty words (asterisks in for the vowels)
We peered through the windows, new bottoms on barstools but the people remain the same.
With prices inflating, as if saved from the gallows.
There's a bellow of buzzers and the people stop working and they're all so excited.
Passing through unconscious states, when I awoke, I was on the highway.
With your hands on my shoulders, a meaningless movement, a movie script ending.
And the patrons are leaving, now we all know the words were true
In the sappiest songs (yes, yes)
I'll put them to bed, but they won't sleep, they're just shuffling the sheets,
They toss and turn (you can't begin to get it back)
Passing through unconscious states, when I awoke, I was on the onset of a later stage:
The headlights are beacons on the highway.
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Just saw them at The Moody Theater, Austin, TX, USA on May 4, 2012.
They play w/ the Magik*Magik Orchestra. Seeing and hearing them with a live string section was truly perfect. Beautiful.
When they played this song I freaked out.
This song also reminds me of a similar trip I took back to an old hometown a few years ago. Though I stayed in-state, I passed through some of the lesser populated counties to get to my old hometown (passing through unconsious states). Everything looked the same as it was when I left, kind of like what Ben is saying when he says "The air on Railroad is making the same sound". There were small changes, like a new supermarket and a new baseball field, but the people and it's surroundings didn't change a bit. "New bottoms on barstools, the people remain the same."
In my experience, I'm making a point never to go back because of some issues with family down there. "A Movie Script Ending" is the perfect title for this, in my opinion, and may very well relate to Ben in his trip back. I felt it was good to have gone back when I did to realize that my old hometown hasn't changed for the most part, and will stay, more than likely, preserved as it did when I grew up there. A sort of assurance, if you will, that how it is pictured in my mind will forever be how it is in real life - a perfect ending, a "Movie Scipt Ending".
I might just be thinking this way because of the relationship of mine that just ended, but it makes sense in my mind. It is about moving on when you don't want to. And you want to convince yourself that you don't have to, but in the end there's no getting out of it.