This song seems to be about finding love and it "dying." The beginning is about exotic things and places, like horchata (a drink), pincher crabs (on a beach somewhere), and Masada (a part of Israel, I believe). "Winter's cold is too much to handle" by himself, so he has someone with him. This could explain that they're with each other more for comfort than for actual love. "Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten" is the feeling of love. Everyone's been thru that feeling where they can't find anyone else and they're alone.
Things get bad.
The balaclava is a ski mask, an international sign of a criminal. "Years go by and hearts start to harden / Those palms and firs that grew in your garden / Are falling down and nearing the rosebeds / The roots are shooting up through the tool shed / Those lips and teeth that asked how my day went / Are shouting up through cracks in the pavement" This should be self-explanitory. They had a "garden" of beautiful firs and rosebeds but it's falling apart and turning ugly. Those same lips that he loved are soon the lips he "buried," or murdered. He broke up with her. "Oh you had it but oh no you lost it / You understood so you shouldn't have fought it. " She saw it coming but she still disagrees and protested.
That's my take! AMAZING song! I like it more than anything on the original LP!!
a balaclava is not a ski mask. It's basically a hood, but no facial coverings. So it is not an "international sign of a criminal". It was named after the village, Balaclava, because that is what the soldiers wore during the Battle of Balaclava, so it is more like a sign of a soldier.
a balaclava is not a ski mask. It's basically a hood, but no facial coverings. So it is not an "international sign of a criminal". It was named after the village, Balaclava, because that is what the soldiers wore during the Battle of Balaclava, so it is more like a sign of a soldier.
you both have points, but a balaclava is what people call ski masks, even though it isn't correct according to the dictionary it still is socially correct.
you both have points, but a balaclava is what people call ski masks, even though it isn't correct according to the dictionary it still is socially correct.
@TheNipper: Yes, it is, I learned about the siege of Masada in history last year. I think this song is a continuation of the whole intercultural relationship thing in "M79" and "Campus"... with the middle eastern reference to Masada... and did anyone catch that they used an oboe in this song, or something that sounds like it, which is normally used to create an Egyptian or Middle East type of sound in the orchestra? When I first heard this song that jumped out at me - it sounds Arabian. Just wondering...
@TheNipper: Yes, it is, I learned about the siege of Masada in history last year. I think this song is a continuation of the whole intercultural relationship thing in "M79" and "Campus"... with the middle eastern reference to Masada... and did anyone catch that they used an oboe in this song, or something that sounds like it, which is normally used to create an Egyptian or Middle East type of sound in the orchestra? When I first heard this song that jumped out at me - it sounds Arabian. Just wondering...
I think it's saying "I'd look psychotic in a balaclava" because it's talking about being somewhere warm in december, not somewhere that people need to wear any kind of gear to stay warm.
I think it's saying "I'd look psychotic in a balaclava" because it's talking about being somewhere warm in december, not somewhere that people need to wear any kind of gear to stay warm.
The reference to cracks in the sidewalks I think is more about a relationship that turned from a beautiful flower into a weed that's coming up in the cracks, not necessarily about a murder at all
The reference to cracks in the sidewalks I think is more about a relationship that turned from a beautiful flower into a weed that's coming up in the cracks, not necessarily about a murder at all
I agree with most everything said- what with balaclava definitions, etc and I also believe this to be about some sort of relationship starting to deteriorate..what stood out to me after giving this a good listen to were the lines,
I agree with most everything said- what with balaclava definitions, etc and I also believe this to be about some sort of relationship starting to deteriorate..what stood out to me after giving this a good listen to were the lines,
"Those lips and teeth that asked how my day went
Are shouting up through cracks in the pavement"
"Those lips and teeth that asked how my day went
Are shouting up through cracks in the pavement"
I remember somewhere reading that Ezra has a "preference" or whatever for Kate Nash? These seemed to me almost a direct reference to her's 'Foundations', which also was a song about a relationship going sour.
I remember somewhere reading that Ezra has a "preference" or whatever for Kate Nash? These seemed to me almost a direct reference to her's 'Foundations', which also was a song about a relationship going sour.
"My fingertips are holding onto
The cracks in our foundation
And I know that I should let go, but I can't
And every time we fight, I know it's not right".....
This song seems to be about finding love and it "dying." The beginning is about exotic things and places, like horchata (a drink), pincher crabs (on a beach somewhere), and Masada (a part of Israel, I believe). "Winter's cold is too much to handle" by himself, so he has someone with him. This could explain that they're with each other more for comfort than for actual love. "Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten" is the feeling of love. Everyone's been thru that feeling where they can't find anyone else and they're alone.
Things get bad.
The balaclava is a ski mask, an international sign of a criminal. "Years go by and hearts start to harden / Those palms and firs that grew in your garden / Are falling down and nearing the rosebeds / The roots are shooting up through the tool shed / Those lips and teeth that asked how my day went / Are shouting up through cracks in the pavement" This should be self-explanitory. They had a "garden" of beautiful firs and rosebeds but it's falling apart and turning ugly. Those same lips that he loved are soon the lips he "buried," or murdered. He broke up with her. "Oh you had it but oh no you lost it / You understood so you shouldn't have fought it. " She saw it coming but she still disagrees and protested.
That's my take! AMAZING song! I like it more than anything on the original LP!!
a balaclava is not a ski mask. It's basically a hood, but no facial coverings. So it is not an "international sign of a criminal". It was named after the village, Balaclava, because that is what the soldiers wore during the Battle of Balaclava, so it is more like a sign of a soldier.
a balaclava is not a ski mask. It's basically a hood, but no facial coverings. So it is not an "international sign of a criminal". It was named after the village, Balaclava, because that is what the soldiers wore during the Battle of Balaclava, so it is more like a sign of a soldier.
you both have points, but a balaclava is what people call ski masks, even though it isn't correct according to the dictionary it still is socially correct.
you both have points, but a balaclava is what people call ski masks, even though it isn't correct according to the dictionary it still is socially correct.
masada is a fort outside of jerusalem...
masada is a fort outside of jerusalem...
@TheNipper: Yes, it is, I learned about the siege of Masada in history last year. I think this song is a continuation of the whole intercultural relationship thing in "M79" and "Campus"... with the middle eastern reference to Masada... and did anyone catch that they used an oboe in this song, or something that sounds like it, which is normally used to create an Egyptian or Middle East type of sound in the orchestra? When I first heard this song that jumped out at me - it sounds Arabian. Just wondering...
@TheNipper: Yes, it is, I learned about the siege of Masada in history last year. I think this song is a continuation of the whole intercultural relationship thing in "M79" and "Campus"... with the middle eastern reference to Masada... and did anyone catch that they used an oboe in this song, or something that sounds like it, which is normally used to create an Egyptian or Middle East type of sound in the orchestra? When I first heard this song that jumped out at me - it sounds Arabian. Just wondering...
I think it's saying "I'd look psychotic in a balaclava" because it's talking about being somewhere warm in december, not somewhere that people need to wear any kind of gear to stay warm.
I think it's saying "I'd look psychotic in a balaclava" because it's talking about being somewhere warm in december, not somewhere that people need to wear any kind of gear to stay warm.
The reference to cracks in the sidewalks I think is more about a relationship that turned from a beautiful flower into a weed that's coming up in the cracks, not necessarily about a murder at all
The reference to cracks in the sidewalks I think is more about a relationship that turned from a beautiful flower into a weed that's coming up in the cracks, not necessarily about a murder at all
I agree with most everything said- what with balaclava definitions, etc and I also believe this to be about some sort of relationship starting to deteriorate..what stood out to me after giving this a good listen to were the lines,
I agree with most everything said- what with balaclava definitions, etc and I also believe this to be about some sort of relationship starting to deteriorate..what stood out to me after giving this a good listen to were the lines,
"Those lips and teeth that asked how my day went Are shouting up through cracks in the pavement"
"Those lips and teeth that asked how my day went Are shouting up through cracks in the pavement"
I remember somewhere reading that Ezra has a "preference" or whatever for Kate Nash? These seemed to me almost a direct reference to her's 'Foundations', which also was a song about a relationship going sour.
I remember somewhere reading that Ezra has a "preference" or whatever for Kate Nash? These seemed to me almost a direct reference to her's 'Foundations', which also was a song about a relationship going sour.
"My fingertips are holding onto The cracks in our foundation And I know that I should let go, but I can't And every time we fight, I know it's not right".....
Just my two cents