Lyrics question and discussion

[cheguevara6]

Need help with your interpretations to lyrics:
In Animals were gone, what does this line mean

"at night i trip without you"?

In volcano what does
"you give me miles and miles of mountains
and i'll ask for the sea" mean?

Is Lisa voicing the Blowers daughter's opinion in the song of the same name when she says "did i say that i loathe you?
did i say that i want to
leave it all behind?", or is that still Damien's ideas and opinions?

What does the line about western men needing to cry mean? I envision a man traveling by boat, long ago, the way this is phrased its like its from the 1800's or something. Specifically:
"
papa went to other lands
and found someone who understands
the ticking and the western man's need to cry
he came back the other day you know
some things in life may change
and some things they stay the same
like time"

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This line from I Remember sounds like he is the pied piper leading lost children out somewhere"
come all ye lost
dive into moss
i hope that my sanity covers the cost
to remove the stain of my love
paper mache"
What does that mean?


thanks

[johnnyappleseed]

Well volcano is a song about some girl wanting him and he doesnt really dig her but in the end of the song it gets switch and he wants her and she doesnt want him. So the, you give me miles and miles of mountains and i'll ask for the sea probably means that she will do anything for him and he doesnt care. Like nothing she does is good enough for him.

Now the western mans need to cry, im not sure but i always thought it meant that western people have a tendency not to be as in tune with them selfs like eastern people are like Buddhist are. Westerners are kinda cold, if you know what im saying.

the other songs i dont know.

[nemo]

Well, my two cents:
The trip is a dream, and when it's without her - it's in the deepest meaning: not just without you now, but without you at all, as if I never met you. And that's why he hopes that he won't wake up - because waking up without you, but still knowing you're here, is like having the cup - but having it empty and being thirsty.
In volcano - she gives him a lot, but not of the sort he wants. Like, if you have this girl who is wonderful in bed and she does all sorts of things to you, but you want someone with whom you can just sit quietly and recite your favourite Frost poem, and she's not into that, it doesn't matter how much of the "mountains" she will give you - you need the "sea".
About The Blower's Daughter, I have a bit of a hard time. I think he's sort of reliving the last words she told him - that she doesn't hate him enough to make him leave it all behind, and that's why she can't be with him. Just a thought though.
About the western man, I think there's irony there. The western man doesn't need to cry. He needs to pay the rent, to earn money, to run the race - crying isn't something neccessary in western eyes, and what isn't neccessary simply shouldn't be done. But it alienates you from yourself, so you do need to cry. Brilliant, in that perspective. But eventually he came back - because somethings can change, yet they stay the same.
About I Remeber, it's "The weight of my life", I think. I think he's crying for the like minded lost to dice in their pain. He hopes he's sane enough to do it, and remain sane. When pain makes you feel heavy, the weight of your life in paper mache creates one huje pile, that'll take a long time to remove, especially since it tends to stick together and become a dirty work.

Hope I helped, would love to hear other thoughts.

[borneoman]

Tricky questions Not sure if I can help much...

-Volcano: He's talked about the song a lot in recent concerts. In LA back in Dec he kinda explained the whole song. It's basically about the two persons in a relationship wanting diff things out of it, like one person being really in love and wanting to get married and have children and so on and the other person being there just to have fun/sex, that's what the 'mountains' and 'sea' is about, 'mountains' being what you give to the other person and 'sea' being what the other person really wants...

-TBW: I always thought that line was Lisa's character, seems to me like if it's sung by the person who did the break up...

-Older chests: I think it doesn't literally mean 'cry'. I think it means the guy left and found a woman who really understood him, that understood his feelings, his emotions... I mean, a 'modern' (western) man can have a strong facade and appear as cold hearted stone but there's feelings inside

-I Remember: that part is pure anger and frustration and testosterone speaking, all the blow up my horn, stain of my love, paper mache, this is porn...

-Animals: I think he means 'trip' as 'fall', like if he's lost without her, at night is when he misses her the most... actually IMO 'at night I dream without you' would be a better lyric!!!!!

[Devilock]

I always thought the "remove the stain of my love" in I Remember was about the stain[s] that could be left behind after a sexual encounter....

[Calum]

^ Me too.

Edit: And paper mache being when it dries.