My brother finds comfort in calculators
He assigns every number a name
He believes that they add up to certainty
And he is upset with fractions that remain

So I examine these maps with my eyes and at best
I can trace with my finger all the way
To that town where she went an attempt to forget
The cracks and the lines of my face

So Jetsabel cleaned out the closets for me
And she piled the boxes in the hall
Tomorrow when she wakes she'll come take them away
And they will never haunt me again

But it is still hard to sleep with the moon's heavy beams
I run barefoot to the backyard
Just to freeze in my place by the rod iron gate
Too afraid and ashamed to advance

Today I walked through the snow and found a field of headstones
They were in rows like the weeks on calendars
Where each box is a day that you can ever escape
Without pills for your poisonous sleep

These memories leak from these faucets that weep
Hot tears splash against the shower floor
And I stand in the steam as if inside a dream
I can see her again by the sink

From behind the bathroom mirror she pulls a thermometer
And placed it underneath my tounge
She said, "You are as pale as a sheet, you look awful my sweet
Lay down and wait for the sun"

So I stayed in that bed, she brought me water and read
Each night from a volume out loud
She whispered soft poetry, her favorite was Anabel Lee
And those words, like these drugs, comforted me

But the clocks kept waving their hands and she could not understand
Why my temperature would never drop
And although she promised with tears that she would always
be here
I heard truth like the sounding sea

I said, "My Arienette, oh, how soon you'll forget
This house will never be your home
And you will leave in the fall when the trees become graves
And their color lie dead in the grass"

Gold and green torture me
Like the lies I believe too easily
Oh my Jetsabel, look at this hell that I have made
If you want maybe drop by sometime
Put some flowers on my grave
So that I will look beautiful in my silent sepulchur
Yeah, that's fine, throw those dresses away
I don't want anything of hers

For the moon never shines
And the stars never rise
Without bringing me dreams

Haunted by the ghosts of those bright eyes



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  • +1
    General Comment:There are a lot of references to Annabel Lee in this song, not just the one lyric where he specifically mentions that poem.

    The last stanza of Annabel Lee:
    "*For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams*
    Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
    *And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes*
    Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
    And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
    Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
    In the *sepulchre* there by the sea,
    In her tomb by the *sounding sea*."

    Some lines from this song:
    "So that I will look beautiful in my silent sepulcher"
    "I heard truth like the sounding sea"
    "For the moon never shines, and the stars never rise without bringing me dreams haunted by the ghosts of those bright eyes"


    Annabel Lee is about a man who loves a woman, but then she gets sick and dies. Her body is placed in a sepulcher by the sea, which he lays down beside each night. He blames her death on their love, saying that even the angels in heaven were jealous, so they took her from him.

    In this song it's the man who gets sick and dies, and the love between the woman (Arienette) and him wasn't as strong. She ended up leaving him because, try as she might, she couldn't make him better, and she couldn't bear to see him suffer.

    In "The Joy in Forgetting/The Joy in Acceptance" he says "And you speak of a fever that burns you inside as you explain to your mother how you have wanted to die... And you will be happy the minute you try, so won't you try?" In this song he also speaks of a fever, so I'm thinking that maybe he wants to die, or at least sees it as inevitable, so he won't even try to get better. Arienette says that she'll never leave, but he claims to know that she will eventually. He thinks that her leaving him is an inevitability, just like his death. This mindset could be what drove her away, along with not wanting to see him suffer.

    But, like the man in Annabel Lee, he can't get over her after she leaves. He dreams of her every night and sees her all the time. He wants Jetsabel to get rid of her things because he can't stand to be reminded of her all the time, but it probably won't work.

    One thing I don't understand is when he says "like the lies I believed too easily." At first I thought it meant that he believed Arienette when she said that she'd never leave, but obviously not, since he says that he knows she will. I don't know what other lie he could be talking about, though.

    One more thing. "Just to freeze in my place by the rod iron gate" - That should be WROUGHT iron gate. ;]
    Flag alyssarcasticon July 28, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:The entire piece is written with Poe in mind, with much of it derived from The Fall of the House of Usher. If you read it completely, the only main part of the story missing is the return of Lady Madeline, he ends it by being just trapped in his seplucher. Many individual lines, like the one mentioning gold and green, are within the first few paragraphs of that story. This house never being a home reflects that in Poe's story, the house collapsed within itself shortly after Lady Madeline returns from the dead and finds Usher in the moonlight. In the story, poetry was read after her demise, but never a self-reference, so that was Conor hinting at what he was writing about. The first paragraph just deeply defines how gloomy of a place the house was, so that's what sets the tone, and why it sounds so slow and sad. He mentions fantasias and phantasms in it too, thus the dream references. Gold and green are mentioned in a poem within the story too.
    Flag cosgrovelpon August 16, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:umm. im sure its not michelle willams.
    id like to imagine its his true love.
    in his earlier albums he mentions those bright eyes and
    in MANY of his songs theres the colors gold and green
    and those could be eye colors.
    green and gold are bright and beautiful.
    Flag frostysoulon June 24, 2009   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:This song is about his relationship with Michelle Williams. She broke his heart. Her hair is 'gold', her eyes are green, thus the line 'gold and green torture me'. There are more references if you look for them.
    Flag davenporton October 14, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:^ It's on the Japanese version of Fevers and Mirrors.
    I know it's not about this, but the song makes me think of the Holocaust for some reason.
    Flag heartshotsupernovaon August 23, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Where can i find this song?
    Is it on Fevers and Mirrors?
    Flag ChemicalCaitlinon June 20, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:obv. the little bit about how rational his brother means something:
    conor's the one who winds up with the remainders, as in arienette, who stays in his blood regardless of how much jetsabel tries to erase that.
    i think arienette was just tired of taking care of him & left, not necessarily that he is OLD, just worn.
    arienette was his only true feeling of comfort & sedative, instead of drugs. then she left like she promised she wouldnt & obv. he is feeling less able to live. its just ticking down the time & he cant be the full man for jetsabel that he should. she is the reason he copes.....
    Flag halighALIEon June 06, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:but truthfully i cant even describe the image or the place this song brings me too. its like a mystical world i dont even know.
    but i think alot has to do with the poem, like its written from the poem or based on it in a way.
    and also like what i said before, but its so hard to describe exsactly what i think when i hear this song. its just too amazing.
    Flag autosomeson June 14, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Conor (the narrator) starts in the second verse talking about Arienette, and about how she left him. Then Jetsabel comes and starts taking away Arienette's things (the undesirables) so they stop haunting him about Arienette, because he doesn't like thinking about her, and they remind him of her.

    Then later he says "I can see her again by the sink," and starts referring to the past, when Arienette was still around. Arienette (not Jetsabel) is the one who does the thermometer and reads the poetry. But time went on ("the clocks kept waving their hands") and he didn't get better, and though Arienette said "she would always be here," he knew better. He told her that she'd leave, and she did in the fall, just like he said, which is why "gold and green torture me", as those are the colors of the dead leaves lying in the grass.

    He then brings it back to the present, where he tells Jetsabel again to throw Arienette's dresses away, because he doesn't want anything of hers, because too much reminds him of her already.
    Flag mbtheion June 06, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:The end wasn't taken from Poe, it was written by Conor, it's just very reminiscent of the ending of Annabell Lee, which is a poem referanced in the song.
    Flag hcaulfieldon May 03, 2007   Link

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