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Bloc Party: Always New Depths Meaning

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Always New Depths Lyrics

Always New Depths

All the clouds are black
Mother is cried out
Someone else broke my fall
I don't remember
Internationally bastardised
Internationally tongue-tied
The truth is I'm not sorry
It's bigger than the both of us
A pillar of...

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  1. anonymous
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     Mar 11th 2008 !⃝

    Think that it's reffering about unwanted paternity.
    The vocabulary used contains reference to family and childhood: mother, bastardized, "Crawling round on all fours" refers to baby prior their learning walking stage. Maybe "they got yourself curl into a circle" is a reference to a foetus.

    The text, either a kind of a letter written to his child or a the father confronting his son, relates to someone who fled fatherhood, unwilling to cope with that kind of responsibilities nor stay with the mother he didn't really love.
    "You're my work of art" line sounds a bit more optimistic though.


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