Is awesome.
I'd like to know what you think the songs are about, it has been a fun puzzle for me.
1.Inequality, class divide?
2. Satan's perspective
3. Not doing enough to really solve the problem, haven't figured this one out.
4. Here I came up with a bunch of different ideas too.
5. Cults
6. Conjoined twins?
7. Ernest Shackleton! I'm a fan of the guy.
8. Jimi, Kurt, and others who died early.
9. Nobel, Oppenheimer?
10. Many ideas again.
1. I think either Dan or Dag has said that it's about someone taking your ideas/credit, sort of the business version of a vampire.
3. My guess is climate change.
4. Definitely something about the conquistadors and the Incas/Mayans/etc. Possibly the Battle of Mataquito?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mataquito
5. Jonestown. Prior to 9/11, the mass suicide there was the single largest loss of American lives in history.
7. The most insane part of that whole expedition is that NOBODY DIED. Even when Shackleton took a couple of men out in a rowboat for a two week trip across the most treacherous waters in the world, and the guys left on Elephant Island had to make camp under another rowboat.
8. The legend of the "27 Club". The song specifically covers Robert Johnson, Hendrix, and Cobain.
9. I don't think it's Nobel or Oppenheimer. The song seems to be about a genius who, for some reason, retreats into his mind and can't do his work anymore. I've spent a while looking for someone who would fit, but I can't come up with anyone.
10. I really, really, really, want to believe that this is something to do with the Breathing Shadow story - the tone of the song, the gloomy sounds at the end, it really sounds like it would fit there. I doubt it though.
The album as a whole is just awesome, and I love how many little nods there are to other bands - Lucifer's Lament sounds like something King's X might have written.
