mewithoutYou - [untitled] e.p. & [Untitled] LP (2018) Album • Page 34

what about favorite mwY lyrical passage? i think this is mine:


With imperial crowns we were sent,
Riding out conquest-bent
Daylight is breaking
Wielding the sanctified sword
For the army of the Scarecrow Lord
Daylight is breaking
Balancing scales at our feet
Measuring out two pounds of barley, six pounds of buckwheat
Beasts of the Battersea Shield
At the opening of the fourth seal

The sky, I'd been told
Would roll up like a scroll
As the mountains and islands moved from their place
And the sun would turn black
As a dead raven's back
But there'd be nowhere to hide
From the Judge's face
After which message-less birds take flight without cause
To the silence they've heard in the absence of laws
Or imperial crowns: Unsent, unsigned

 

just drip drip ur favorite new track

 

lol

honestly i have no idea what track they're going to release next, i have my hopes but there's no obvious choice

 

just picking random ones off the top of my head

On the Streets of Mexican Wars
I battle with the memory of a first fight
In our contemptible youth
I quoted White Nights
("My God, a moment of bliss
Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetimes?")
Thinking that'd get rid of you
And waited with a stone in my hand
But you were quite right:
Nature had another plan
(& failed to run it by me)
Nature had another plan
Some other surrogate self
To live in the sediment of so many somebody elses'
Innumerable lives and you were right:
It's not a person who dies
But worlds die inside us

also

I dreamt of the rocks at the Asbury dunes
And that you jumped from the top
Of the Log Flume
And they gather like wolves
On the boardwalk below
And they're howling for answers
No wolf can know

I charged at the waves
With a glass in my hand
I was tossed like a ball
At the bottle stand
And I landed beside your
Remains on the stones
Where your cold fingers
Wrapped 'round my ankle bones
Maybe ten feet away was a star
Thousands of times the size of our Sun
Exploding like the tiny balloons
You'd throw darts at

 

Some favorite lyrics:

The Dryness and The Rain

A fish swims in the sea
while the sea is in a certain sense,
contained within the fish!
Oh, what am I to think
of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
could not explain
if all the forest trees were pens
and all the oceans - ink?

Dorothy

Then last night I was somewhere near Virginia
rebuking satan with ironic faithfulness”
And satan turned to me: Have you thought much about that cry?

Eloi, Eloi
Have you thought much about that cry?
Have you thought much about that cry?
Have you thought much about that cry?
Have you thought much about that cry?
Have you thought much about that cry?

Eloi, Eloi
Eloi, Eloi
Lama sabachthani
Eloi, Eloi
Eloi, Eloi
Elliot Eloi Eloi.

Every Thought a Thought of You

When they swear, their love is real, they mean
I like the way you make me feel


I could go on and on.

 

enthusiastically seconded especially if you include the dream coda. i just cry through that whole fuckin song tbh

 

fixed

 

i know this is aaron quoting another poem but it's my favorite moment in the entire catalog

 

which reminds me that rumi wrote some of the best mwY lyrics, shouts out to rumi

 

Absolutely adore this opening line.

Aubergine

sugar down the syrup in the Queen Anne's lace
shining in the light of nightshade

 

I think about that line at least once every day.

 

this one is soooooooooooooo classic, and so amazing

 

My favourite passage is *the entirety of Fox's Dream of the Log Flume*

 

I love how it can be applied to anything you love.

I could say that's how I feel about mewithoutYou and it would be 100% true.

 

Messes of Men

I still taste its kiss, that dull hook in my lip
is a memory as useless as a rod without a reel
To an anchor ever-dropped, seasick yet still docked
Captain spotted napping with his first mate at the wheel

The Sun and the Moon

[the preference of the sun was
to the south side of the farm
I planted to the north in a terra-cotta pot
blind as I'd become, I used to wonder where you are -
these days I can't find where you're not!]

C-Minor

I'm water, you're the dry wood
Equal parts misguided and misunderstood
But all the neighborhood
Watched a fire burn from where they stood
As the smoke said
"we're not half as bad as G-d is good"
Still there's a whisper in my ear
The voice of loneliness and fear, and I say:
"Devil, disappear!
I'm still (ehh…technically) a virgin
After 27 years -
Which never bothered me before
What's maybe 50 more?"

21st Century American Literature textbook material.

 

I was just thinking about this specific lyric last night.

 

Whew boy, this part gives me goosebumps. What a song.

 

apparition eyes part too. Aaron is one of my all time fav lyricists so i could probably gush about this forever

 

Aaron Weiss and Dustin Kensrue are master wordsmiths to me.

 

keep it comin

 

as much as I like some Thrice, Ive never liked their lyrics

 

gonna want to change this immediately after but let's try

nice and blue pt. 2
red cow
watermelon ascot
rainbow signs
fox's dream of the log flume
paper hanger
all circles
o, porcupine
my exit, unfair
mexican war streets

bethlehem, wv, winter solstice and august 6th are too new but are serious contenders right now

as is the rest of their catalogue

 

I am obsessed with "Kristy w/ The Sparkling Teeth"

Haven't done a full discography dive since PH came out, time to change that. Usually always happens around an album release for me.

 

i'm obsessed with julia but i feel guilty listening to it without the rest of the album.

 

october 5 is sooo far awway