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The storm probably refers to the girl’s adamant and unwavering rejection of Marshall. He was powerless against her, and wholly unable to change her opinion of him.
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Marshall wishes the person who harmed him could witness firsthand the suffering they inflicted on him. The specific imagery of immolation may be an allusion to being burnt at the stake, a common punishment for heretics. If this is true, Marshall may be saying that he was chastised for speaking out against a majority opinion.
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A comic exaggeration. The scenery Marshall refers to is not that of the real world but a facade, like some decrepit wallpaper covering up what lies underneath.
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The cranes all being one in the same may be Marshall implying that he feels his dreams are non-unique, that he’s just another one of many cogs in some grand omniscient clock.
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This of course is entirely intentional and a common sonic goal for the band, from as early as their first album:
When we walked into the studio, we said: drums are The Beatles-esque, guitars are like The Ramones– really punky, messy, and sloppy-sounding– and vocals like Phil Spector.
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Marshall knows that his love unrequited because there’s another man in the equation. He is the one who the girl truly wants, and thus is the only one who can see her when she’s bare (that is, both literally stripped down naked and figuratively stripped of all her inhibitions). All Marshall can do is watch from afar.
I’m not even sure where the love triangle in Squanto’s annotation is coming from.
The “it” here is that uncertainty, self-loathing and/or paranoia. He feels once she truly sees him “bare and stripped from the mold” (the mold being his mask, the image of himself he projects for others to see. The lies he embodies to give himself shape) and he has nothing to shield her from the real him, it will only make him hate himself more.
He “stares” or “over-analyzes” the relationship and/or himself whenever he starts to get close enough to feel seen. It tears away at him and makes intimacy impossible, rendering his significant other unreachable. He words this unapologetically, defensively, almost accusatory. It’s not “I stare sometimes”, it’s “well, I stare sometimes” as if in indignant reply to her questioning his sudden change of heart, his closing her off, his running away from the relationship.
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Stating that “it calls when you’re bare” could be incubating that the other lover only cares about this girl when she’s “bare”. Meaning that he only cares about her when she is nothing but a body and all these other things that Marshall states she has (faith etc, etc) don’t exist.