And who is this Paul Banks fellow exactly?
― The Count has shot himself (Tom D.), Monday, 6 October 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
I dunno; you could maybe try reading the post at the top of the thread? Or is reading OPs too much work these days?
― Welcome to reality. No spitting, please. (Branwell with an N), Monday, 6 October 2014 11:33 (nine years ago) link
I've actually been thinking about the line "You only know me like the shoreline knows the sea" quite a bit lately.
When I first heard it, I thought it meant that the "you" knows the speaker very well, that a shoreline obviously has a long and repeated acquaintance with the sea. But the line stuck with me, and I realised it could also mean the opposite - that a shoreline knows the sea only in a (very literally) shallow sense. The shoreline knows only the external tip of the sea, that the vast bulk of the sea are depths that the shoreline has no knowledge of - that actually it could mean that the "you" has no real understanding of the speaker at all, beyond the shallow and superficial. Especially with that casual "only".
― Welcome to reality. No spitting, please. (Branwell with an N), Monday, 6 October 2014 11:38 (nine years ago) link
Tom D, I think he's in Genesis
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 6 October 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
Paul BanksStatement
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 6 October 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
Branwell, re: having a lyrics sheet on the new record, is it just me or are the non-sequiturs basically just completely gone now
― Simon H., Monday, 6 October 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
Well, there are the non-sequiturs that didn't make it to the lyric sheets!
("I'm not gonna chase another steak until he's gone" ... wait, dude, you definitely said that in the lyrics, but it's not on the lyric sheet. What happened there, was not that actually a song lyric? I'm imagining it as an aside you shouted at Sam while you were waiting for Daniel to leave the studio so you could and Sam could make a midnight run to go eat steaks while the vegetarian was out? WTF, man?)
Granted, there have been several occasions where I've heard something and been like "WTF, did he just sing that?" and then checked the lyric sheets, and actually, no, he sang something that made slightly more sense than what I heard.
So I don't know if he's being more direct on this record. Or if many of those non-sequiturs were mis-hearings. (No, he definitely sang "let's see about this ham.")
― Welcome to reality. No spitting, please. (Branwell with an N), Monday, 6 October 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
to this day i have no clue what PDA could be about - a rape? a bad breakup? astounding that it's still so impenetrable
Yours is the only version of my desertion that I could ever subscribe toThat is all that I can doYou are a past dinner, the last winner I'm raping all around meUntil the last drop is behind youYou're so cute when you're frustrated, dearYeah you're so cute when you're sedated, dearoh yes dear
Sleep tight, grim rite.We have 200 couches where you canSleep tight, grim rite.We have 200 couches where you canSleep tonight...
You are the only person who's completely certain there's nothing here to be intoThat is all that you can doYou are a past sinner, the last winner and everything we've come toIt makes you youBut you cannot safely say, while I will be away,that you will not consider sadly how you helped me to strayYou will not reach me I amResenting a position that is past resentmentAnd now I can considerAnd now there is this distance, so-
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Monday, 6 October 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link