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It can be implied that suede scars are scars that affect something more delicate than skin – such as the mental faculties or emotions of a human.

A recurring ambiguous theme in Jeremy Enigk’s music, this element of “suede scars” can be found in other songs of his like “Suede Scars and Promises”.

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A common thing desert people do for fun is to drive to an airfield and lay on the hood of their car as airplanes take off / land above them.

This provides a rush in the deafening sound of the plane and the wind produced from the jet engine.

A famous example of this from the 1992 film Wayne’s World

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“Slow Cruel Hands of Time,” written by frontman Ben Bridwell, was the second single released from 2012 Mirage Rock.

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The first of Touche Amore’s two songs featured on their 2012 split with The Casket Lottery.

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This song is a non-album single released by NY Indie band Cymbals Eat Guitars in September of 2012. Produced by John Agnello.

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It would be counter intuitive to attempt to fix a broken object by simply neatly arranging its fragments. This is ultimately the meaning of the song: performing pointless actions in order to achieve a desired result.

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The first single released from Further Seems Forever’s 2012 full-length, “Penny Black”

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This song can be interpreted as a narrator who is
conducting a practice that turns to be unhealthy (to his psyche or physic, it’s not repairable) and wants to stop, but found it to be very difficult.

The second song released by Atoms For Peace.

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In physics, when one audio waveform is tuned so that its peak coincides with another one, the two waveforms will combine to produce silence. This is when the waveforms are “out of phase” with each other. In the lyrics, the singer and his lover have reached their peaks, but there is a tension created from his need to turn away (“I fall between the waves,” “I avoid your gaze”).

“Out of phase” may also refers to a state of enlightenment or dream state. In music, once the brain recognises a pattern it no longer sustains its attention (hence the creative development of the album such that the listener does not always know what to expect). Light machines such as Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine (famous in the music world) is said to create a hypnagogic state from the “Pattern out of phase” visual effect (similar to light flickering through trees in a car).

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York wants to stop (the will is strong) and has identified a need to stop (I’ve gotta stop), however realizes that the temptation of the thing he is writing about is hard to overcome (but the flesh is weak).


This is a bible allusion, Matthew 21 – “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Famously alluded to by Shakespeare with sexual undertones in Henry IV Act III, Part 2

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