Actually, I do think Prospect 1 does continue from Swim to the Moon...
Perhaps, since Tommy stated Swim and Sun of Nothing are companion songs, Prospect 2 is the man from SoN, but I'm not really sure how that works, considering he throws himself into the sun... but perhaps there was some type of temporal disruption that cast him back to life:
"The reality chases and catches up on actual alertness. I'm awake. A daydream, alone; silence."
His space ship turned out to be a boat. The boat from swim to the moon turned out to be a space ship. This all seems too well planned out...
The lyrics are confusing, but I think it's almost definite that at least ONE of these men is from Swim to the Moon.
Well lyrically Son of Nothing really just implied a mental state of drifting and loneliness, VERY similar to Pink Floyd's the Wall in my opinion... Swim to the Moon also was it's own concrete entity, but I do believe this is a reintroduction of both stories in a more story driven "this is actually happening in the context of the album" sense. Prequel to the Sequel as well as Lost Perfection (a and b) are also evident, but again, it seems like a reintroduction, rather than a continuation. Also Ants of the Sky is in there in the venturing through...
Well lyrically Son of Nothing really just implied a mental state of drifting and loneliness, VERY similar to Pink Floyd's the Wall in my opinion... Swim to the Moon also was it's own concrete entity, but I do believe this is a reintroduction of both stories in a more story driven "this is actually happening in the context of the album" sense. Prequel to the Sequel as well as Lost Perfection (a and b) are also evident, but again, it seems like a reintroduction, rather than a continuation. Also Ants of the Sky is in there in the venturing through the new land. Unfortunately with almost all of their old songs, they didn't really have a concrete single idea. For both albums and songs. The Great Misdirect was really the first album of theirs I really saw as a story driven concept album. But as for individual songs, Ants of the Sky had crazy venturings through the world, and then turned into Tommy wondering if what he wrote was even good enough (then turned into a hoedown) Lost Perfection had a really cool story, the end of the world and a baby being born during it, but it also had Tommy singing about how he, and the other guys were bored on the tour bus...
However, I think Lost Perfection (and really Prequel to the Sequel, as it is a prequel to it) are the most relevant to the story element of this album. The rest have more musical relevance (I love how they do that!!!) But Lost Perfection states the apocalypse in which this world is now a victim.
MY spin on the story (it probably isn't right) is that prospect 1 has been sent out on some sort of mission to try and save the Earth as a baby, and the first lines of the album are that ship crashing on a distant planet. Eventually Prospect 1 is met by self reflective pasts as well as the desire to get back home. Anyway, Prospect 1 devises a way to signal the outside world, which works. Prospect 2, all along through the album is on his ship (he is the one who talks too much from Lost Perfection, no doubt on that one) his self reflective journey is both literal and figurative, as he heads to Prospect 1, who is still stuck on this distant planet. (Hypersleep for prospect 1 is the initial time wasted sleeping underwater in the ship remnants of the ship, while for Prospect 2 is the time spent asleep in the ship on the way to prospect 1. (The siren of loneliness is prospect 1's signal to prospect 2) Finally in Lunar Wilderness, Prospect 2 lands on the planet, and awakes after many hours in hypersleep, reflecting on the apocalypse. Some horrifying realization is swept over prospect 2 (could prospect 2 not be on the right planet, could prospect 1 have died in prospect 2's crash? They've done a great job of leaving it open for interpretation, unfortunately that makes this entire interpretation open to be completely wrong and flawed...but these are the thoughts I've got going on about it thus far.)
So I read an interview today. Prospect 1 IS directly from Swim to the Moon, and is on planet Earth, in which he goes out to sea on a suicide mission. (same story) now I see where they were going here, I still think the ship sank and he creates a device to get the attention of Prospect 2. Prospect 2 is the character who talks to much yaddayadda, apocalypse at the end of the world is still true, it's not yet explained if these characters share the same dimension or if the planet prospect 2 is from is Earth,...
So I read an interview today. Prospect 1 IS directly from Swim to the Moon, and is on planet Earth, in which he goes out to sea on a suicide mission. (same story) now I see where they were going here, I still think the ship sank and he creates a device to get the attention of Prospect 2. Prospect 2 is the character who talks to much yaddayadda, apocalypse at the end of the world is still true, it's not yet explained if these characters share the same dimension or if the planet prospect 2 is from is Earth, maybe Prospect 2 did simply just time travel from one Earth point to another and the horrible realization seen is prospect 2's realization that he's still on the planet Earth and can't change anything, even though he's reflected on this moment all album.
I would greatly appreciate the link to that interview! I'm glad to know I at least guessed some of this right. And the Lost Perfections and Prequel to the Sequel definitely are playing around in here.
I would greatly appreciate the link to that interview! I'm glad to know I at least guessed some of this right. And the Lost Perfections and Prequel to the Sequel definitely are playing around in here.
Actually, I do think Prospect 1 does continue from Swim to the Moon... Perhaps, since Tommy stated Swim and Sun of Nothing are companion songs, Prospect 2 is the man from SoN, but I'm not really sure how that works, considering he throws himself into the sun... but perhaps there was some type of temporal disruption that cast him back to life: "The reality chases and catches up on actual alertness. I'm awake. A daydream, alone; silence."
His space ship turned out to be a boat. The boat from swim to the moon turned out to be a space ship. This all seems too well planned out...
The lyrics are confusing, but I think it's almost definite that at least ONE of these men is from Swim to the Moon.
Well lyrically Son of Nothing really just implied a mental state of drifting and loneliness, VERY similar to Pink Floyd's the Wall in my opinion... Swim to the Moon also was it's own concrete entity, but I do believe this is a reintroduction of both stories in a more story driven "this is actually happening in the context of the album" sense. Prequel to the Sequel as well as Lost Perfection (a and b) are also evident, but again, it seems like a reintroduction, rather than a continuation. Also Ants of the Sky is in there in the venturing through...
Well lyrically Son of Nothing really just implied a mental state of drifting and loneliness, VERY similar to Pink Floyd's the Wall in my opinion... Swim to the Moon also was it's own concrete entity, but I do believe this is a reintroduction of both stories in a more story driven "this is actually happening in the context of the album" sense. Prequel to the Sequel as well as Lost Perfection (a and b) are also evident, but again, it seems like a reintroduction, rather than a continuation. Also Ants of the Sky is in there in the venturing through the new land. Unfortunately with almost all of their old songs, they didn't really have a concrete single idea. For both albums and songs. The Great Misdirect was really the first album of theirs I really saw as a story driven concept album. But as for individual songs, Ants of the Sky had crazy venturings through the world, and then turned into Tommy wondering if what he wrote was even good enough (then turned into a hoedown) Lost Perfection had a really cool story, the end of the world and a baby being born during it, but it also had Tommy singing about how he, and the other guys were bored on the tour bus...
However, I think Lost Perfection (and really Prequel to the Sequel, as it is a prequel to it) are the most relevant to the story element of this album. The rest have more musical relevance (I love how they do that!!!) But Lost Perfection states the apocalypse in which this world is now a victim.
MY spin on the story (it probably isn't right) is that prospect 1 has been sent out on some sort of mission to try and save the Earth as a baby, and the first lines of the album are that ship crashing on a distant planet. Eventually Prospect 1 is met by self reflective pasts as well as the desire to get back home. Anyway, Prospect 1 devises a way to signal the outside world, which works. Prospect 2, all along through the album is on his ship (he is the one who talks too much from Lost Perfection, no doubt on that one) his self reflective journey is both literal and figurative, as he heads to Prospect 1, who is still stuck on this distant planet. (Hypersleep for prospect 1 is the initial time wasted sleeping underwater in the ship remnants of the ship, while for Prospect 2 is the time spent asleep in the ship on the way to prospect 1. (The siren of loneliness is prospect 1's signal to prospect 2) Finally in Lunar Wilderness, Prospect 2 lands on the planet, and awakes after many hours in hypersleep, reflecting on the apocalypse. Some horrifying realization is swept over prospect 2 (could prospect 2 not be on the right planet, could prospect 1 have died in prospect 2's crash? They've done a great job of leaving it open for interpretation, unfortunately that makes this entire interpretation open to be completely wrong and flawed...but these are the thoughts I've got going on about it thus far.)
So I read an interview today. Prospect 1 IS directly from Swim to the Moon, and is on planet Earth, in which he goes out to sea on a suicide mission. (same story) now I see where they were going here, I still think the ship sank and he creates a device to get the attention of Prospect 2. Prospect 2 is the character who talks to much yaddayadda, apocalypse at the end of the world is still true, it's not yet explained if these characters share the same dimension or if the planet prospect 2 is from is Earth,...
So I read an interview today. Prospect 1 IS directly from Swim to the Moon, and is on planet Earth, in which he goes out to sea on a suicide mission. (same story) now I see where they were going here, I still think the ship sank and he creates a device to get the attention of Prospect 2. Prospect 2 is the character who talks to much yaddayadda, apocalypse at the end of the world is still true, it's not yet explained if these characters share the same dimension or if the planet prospect 2 is from is Earth, maybe Prospect 2 did simply just time travel from one Earth point to another and the horrible realization seen is prospect 2's realization that he's still on the planet Earth and can't change anything, even though he's reflected on this moment all album.
I would greatly appreciate the link to that interview! I'm glad to know I at least guessed some of this right. And the Lost Perfections and Prequel to the Sequel definitely are playing around in here.
I would greatly appreciate the link to that interview! I'm glad to know I at least guessed some of this right. And the Lost Perfections and Prequel to the Sequel definitely are playing around in here.