this has been one of my favorites ever since i first heard the green man recording of it as posted on milkymoon. it's one of those songs almost cinematic in drama, to me about that quiet pondering everyone tends to fall into over the afterlife or whatever. when you lose people in your life you start to wonder if when you expire, they'll be waiting for you there "at the top of the wide white stairs."
the imagery having to do with false angels rising with wires and flying with wings of clipped magazines and cardboard is so vivid for me, so gorgeous.
"what was yours and mine
appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes,"
there's something so touching in these lines for me. sometimes it seems no matter how much tender loving care you put into something, there's always a wave that can easily take it away.
this has been one of my favorites ever since i first heard the green man recording of it as posted on milkymoon. it's one of those songs almost cinematic in drama, to me about that quiet pondering everyone tends to fall into over the afterlife or whatever. when you lose people in your life you start to wonder if when you expire, they'll be waiting for you there "at the top of the wide white stairs."
the imagery having to do with false angels rising with wires and flying with wings of clipped magazines and cardboard is so vivid for me, so gorgeous.
"what was yours and mine appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes,"
there's something so touching in these lines for me. sometimes it seems no matter how much tender loving care you put into something, there's always a wave that can easily take it away.