Insular
Insular Echoes: Love, Loss, and Resonating Longing
Lyrics
Won't you guard these futile things?
Expressing a plea to protect or cherish seemingly insignificant or worthless things.
Bare boned, I lie awake, the storm starts to sing
Describing a state of vulnerability while lying awake, anticipating a storm that begins to sing.
Subsurface muffled and mundane
Referring to something beneath the surface that is muted and ordinary.
Engulfed in bodied fumes, dangle from cranes
Immersed in tangible and physical emanations, suspended from cranes.
Well she's fractured, she reads aloud
Portraying a fractured individual who vocalizes their thoughts.
The seals breached, we're watered down
Describing a breach, with diluted or weakened qualities.
Knees bolt to the floor as I await
Depicting a moment of submission and anticipation, physically restrained.
Insular existence, the frail state
Referring to a secluded and isolated existence marked by fragility.
As he crossed her lapidary mind
Describing a person crossing someone's mind like a beautifully crafted gemstone.
For years he's pined
Expressing a prolonged yearning over the years.
Devoid, implied
Indicating a lack, hinted at or suggested.
That's now extinct
Referring to something that was once alive or present but is now extinct.
He was hastily sinking into the deep
Describing a rapid descent into profound depths.
As they console one another
Depicting mutual consolation between individuals.
Once distant, now lovers
Highlighting a transition from distance to intimacy in a relationship.
Placate the frowning sun
Calming or appeasing a sad or displeased sun.
As it sets beneath your thumb
Observing the sunset with delicate and comforting surroundings.
Linen roof and cotton walls
Describing a shelter with a roof of linen and walls of cotton.
As he wept and succumbed
Expressing emotional surrender and yielding to a situation.
You console as I abide
Offering comfort while complying or enduring.
The perception of him dies
Reflecting on the fading perception of someone.
The sediment sinks
Depicting the settling of sediment as someone is immersed in obscure thoughts or memories.
As he's basked in opaque ink
Describing someone convinced despite unclear circumstances.
Somehow convinced through the brush
Being etched, stitched, and incorporated into a pivotal point or essence.
Etched, stitched, and sewn into the crux
Conveying a process of becoming ingrained or integrated.
Through the canopy of pine
Moving through a dense cover of pine trees.
She spews rain as they ardently align
Depicting a person emitting rain as they align passionately with others.
As he crossed her lapidary mind
Repetition of line 9 for emphasis.
Four years he's pined
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Devoid, implied
Repetition of line 11 for emphasis.
That's now extinct
Repetition of line 12 for emphasis.
He was hastily sinking into the deep
Repetition of line 13 for emphasis.
As they console one another
Repetition of lines 14 and 15 for emphasis.
Once distant, now lovers
Repetition of lines 16 and 17 for emphasis.
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