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Give me your eyes
That I might see the blind man kissing my hands
The sun is humming
My head turns to dust as he plays on his knees
As he plays on his knees
And the sand
And the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away on a strange day
And I laugh as I drift in the wind
Blind
Dancing on a beach of stone
Cherish the faces as they wait for the end
Sudden hush across the water
And we're here again
And the sand
And the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away
On a strange day
My head falls back
And the walls crash down
And the sky
And the impossible
Explode
Held for one moment I remember a song
An impression of sound
Then everything is gone
Forever
A strange day
That I might see the blind man kissing my hands
The sun is humming
My head turns to dust as he plays on his knees
As he plays on his knees
And the sand
And the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away on a strange day
And I laugh as I drift in the wind
Blind
Dancing on a beach of stone
Cherish the faces as they wait for the end
Sudden hush across the water
And we're here again
And the sand
And the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away
On a strange day
My head falls back
And the walls crash down
And the sky
And the impossible
Explode
Held for one moment I remember a song
An impression of sound
Then everything is gone
Forever
A strange day
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I heard on a interview once that the song is "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division.
I can say it's about someone remembering, or having thoughts or images, right before falling dead. Of course, that's just something obvious, it surely means more than just that.
I like gl00myART's LSD interpretation. I'll probably think of the song that way from now on.
THIS SONG IS ABOUT LSD (or a similar substance) !!!
and it almost perfectly describes the way the trip feels like from start to end, both lyrically and musically...
and for the trilogy concert also visually!!!
and i'll try to explain it line by line... ish...
the blind man is the writer of the song, and he kisses his own hands to lick the acid from it...
the acid is "the eyes", cause lsd is said to "open" perception... so the blind man wants to "see"...
the light (and also heat) of the sun becomes more intense and begins to blur so it feels like the sun is humming (this line is the perfect description of that impression, i felt exactly the same on one of my trips)
his head falls to dust because the writer is no more able to think in a straight line and he gets on his knees to "play" with all the tiny silly things that come to one's attention when someone is on acid...
the next few lines are just a description how it feels when acid finally fully hits... it hits by waves and it feels like you wanna close your eyes and just drown in everything around you...
then the next "block" show that the writer was not alone to take the trip and that the person / people who was / were with him is / are tripping bad (or different than he is) and waits for the end of it and he tries to comfort him/her/them but is distracted by "a sudden hush across the water" which brings him either back into his own trip or into reality (i'm not completly sure about that)... the line "blind dancing on a beach of stone" could either be the description for the bad trip of the other person / people or mean that the location was somewhere on the european atlantic coast (which is doubtful :P)
the next "block" is again the description of another full wave of acid to hit...
the last block describes the way he "came down" from the trip, tired from the experience and intoxication he lays on the ground and comes back to reality which is kind of like the sky and the impossible (which means "no boundries") explodes (cause in reality, one is constantly confronted with boundries of any kind)... then he tries to manifest his experience in a "song" (which could have been any kind of art) but is not completly able to which makes him feel that this experience will be lost forever (but it could just be kind of robert's sarcasme and nihilisme at that time as well to put that "gone forever" thing in it)
that's pretty much it...
More specifically Robert starts by describing a miracle that Jesus Christ did as referenced directly from the New testament. This however is only an opening on what he wants to reach too, many people stop at this point without further reading the lyrics in detail.
So he goes on and says:
Dancing on a beach of stone
Cherish the faces as they wait for the end
Sudden hush across the water
And we're here again
This part is a metaphor to me. I think he wants to stress out how sadly most people are deluded with happiness and hope when in reality nothing happens. Hey he even states it clearly 'and we're here again'. Another metaphor hildering some irony towards Christians is 'Cherish the faces as they wait for the end' meaning that there is no end there is no apocalypse... at least according to Robert...