Wavelengths
Echoes of Silent Regret: Wavelengths Unveiled
Lyrics
This contusion-colored evening
This refers to the evening with a bruised or damaged appearance.
Maybe you paint the silhouette
Suggests the possibility of creating an outline or representation.
Of the gaunt tree line singed in '97
Describes a skeletal tree line affected by a fire incident in 1997.
When wildfires threatened my development
Recalls a time when wildfires posed a threat to personal growth and progress.
And the swallowed towns the Klan had founded
Refers to towns established by the Klan that were consumed or overshadowed.
The shaded sand dens were party caverns
Points to concealed sand dens that served as party spaces for hallucinating individuals.
For them who'd come hallucinate while we slept
Describes people who indulged in hallucinations while others slept.
Scaring our rabbits to death in their hutches
Mentions the disturbance caused to rabbits in their hutches by these activities.
Can't remember how I used to live
Expresses difficulty in recalling a past way of life.
But they've all cased their jumps
Indicates that others have examined their choices or actions.
Fatally I willed it to be
Suggests a fatal determination or intention.
In the hours of blankness preceding sleep
Refers to the time before sleep when thoughts are empty.
Oh the years we waste faking remorse
Reflects on the wasted years pretending to feel regret.
Every decision I have ever made
Claims that every decision made contributes to a silent, unpredictable future.
Bred the branching future's mute howlers
Describes the consequences of decisions as mute howlers in the branching future.
With burst-vessel red eyes
Depicts eyes with burst vessels, possibly symbolizing emotional strain.
Roaring inaudibly
Describes the inaudible roar of these consequences.
On the freezing morning
Describes a cold morning walk to a distant grocery store.
Walk to the dim corner grocery
Highlights the dimness of the corner grocery during the walk.
What hangs over big empty country
Ponders what looms over vast, empty landscapes.
Reborn in negatives of photos of dusk
Refers to the rebirth of memories in negative images of dusk.
Regret so huge it's on a phantom axis
Expresses immense regret, comparing it to a phantom axis.
Receding beaches hissing hearing damage
Describes receding beaches with a sound associated with hearing damage.
And the miles-long column of cold moonlight cast across
Depicts a long column of cold moonlight casting shadows across a distance.
Still seas when my nose begins to bleed
Describes a calm sea contrasting with the onset of a nosebleed.
Some submitted to having their lights put out
Implies submission to having one's lights extinguished, possibly metaphorical.
By basement thrill killers
Mentions thrill killers in basements causing harm.
In the neighborhood I heard being murdered is no experience
States that being murdered is not an experiential event in the neighborhood.
Ten or eleven wounds
Specifies the number of wounds in a murder scenario.
In it's not about Satan or anything you just die
Emphasizes the randomness of death without specific religious connotations.
It's weird
Expresses the strange nature of death.
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