Lyrics
Thank you for your words of longing
Expressing gratitude for words filled with yearning or desire.
It doesn’t really matter whether or not I understood them
Indicating that understanding the words may not be essential or significant.
‘Doesn’t really matter where they take me
Emphasizing that the destination or direction of the words is not crucial.
Or how they take me…
Stating a lack of concern about the method or manner in which the words affect the speaker.
A witch-black hill in a storm
Describing a dark and foreboding hill in the midst of a storm.
An unruly sea of salt-frozen fear
Depicting a tumultuous sea frozen with fear and covered in salt.
Or a paradise of palms
Contrasting with the previous images, envisioning a paradise with palm trees.
As long as it’s not here
Expressing a preference for any place other than the current one.
As long as it’s not here
Reiterating the desire to be anywhere but the present location.
But a rooftop I can go, to scream above the birds
Finding solace on a rooftop, where the speaker can scream above the birds.
Adding my dull sheen to your brilliant words
Contributing the speaker's presence to someone else's remarkable words.
A job for Christo…
Suggesting a task suitable for Christo, an artist known for wrapping objects.
Wrapping the sun with silk
Describing the act of wrapping the sun with silk, emphasizing its beauty.
Wrapping the sun
-Wrapping the sun …with silk
-Wrapping the sun
-Wrapping the sun with silk
-Make it something that can be looked at …without hurting
Requesting the wrapped sun to be something pleasant to look at without causing harm.
I can try
Expressing a willingness to attempt the suggested task.
I can’t fly but I’ll open my rough beak
Depicting the speaker as a crow, unable to fly but expressing itself by squawking at the sky along with a nightingale.
Squawk at the sky
-The crow and the nightingale
-I can’t fly but I’ll open my rough beak
-Squawk at the sky
-The crow and the nightingale
-The crow and the nightingale
-Wrapping the sun with silk
Repeating the theme of wrapping the sun with silk and emphasizing the desire for something beautiful that doesn't cause pain.
Wrapping the sun
-Wrapping the sun with silk
-Make it something
-Better than blindness
-Better than darkness
-Make it something that can be looked at
-Without hurting
-Without hurting
Reiterating the desire for beauty without causing harm.
Locking Helen of Troy in a padded room
Imagining the confinement of Helen of Troy in a padded room behind frosted glass.
Behind frosted glass
Expressing a howling sound directed at the moon.
Howlin’ at the moon
Portraying a scene of noise and melody created by squawking at the sky.
Squawking at the sky
-A racket,
-And a tune.
Describing the combined sounds as both a racket and a tune.
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