https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-3_Skywarrior
this wwii plane was called "the whale." zuider zee was a site of fighting in wwii. i think the song is about a fighter pilot trying to long for home but coming up with ambivalent memories of petty arguments and domestic misery. ("we talk just like a kitchen sink play."
― Treeship, Sunday, 4 December 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
actually that plane was post-wwii. but other planes have been called "whales."
― Treeship, Sunday, 4 December 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
Fingers / Zuider Zee = the story of the Dutch boy putting finger in hole of dyke.
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 4 December 2016 15:24 (seven years ago) link
Interesting.
I feel like the base narrative is less important than the way the images play off one another and resonate with ideas of birth, death, and even gestation.
― Treeship, Sunday, 4 December 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
like a lot of the album it's riddled with secret agent/behind enemy lines imagery
which also makes for a neat imagery of detachment/alienation
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
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― System, Saturday, 31 December 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
This song is my favorite off TTM. I love "Punishing Paul for Peter" but I think I have to give it up to "Heroes are born, but heroes die" as the single lyric guaranteed, even in print, to bring the euphoric pop rush of this song coming back to my mind
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 31 December 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
I don't know what my favourite off TTM is. Maybe this, but the whole album has a very special feeling.
― jmm, Saturday, 31 December 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link
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― System, Sunday, 1 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link