Popular Culture Review 30.2
ises . We are not alone and cursed to die . The images we have allowed to frighten ourselves have softer edges at the break of dawn . We are all in this together . “ Every part of you ,” she assures us , “ I feel in me .”
We are still remembering . All the way back to the illness and death of Hunger and Thirst ’ s “ CPR / Claws Pt . II .” We are still remembering . Caught up in the shadows , in the “ CHIAR- SCURO ” that makes it so hard to see . We are still remembering . The self we were who wished to save everyone in the family from the supernova in “ Morton ’ s Fork ” has come to realize that the thermodynamic heat death of the universe taking everything to absolute zero ( at which point time stops still ) is inevitable . There is no possibility of keeping anyone safe . Even the laws of entropy demand : we are all involved in something irreversible . We are afraid . One way or the other , the suffering always goes away . We ’ ll be buried . But she is right . We realize that there will be part of us buried in those we love , part of us , then , still impossibly living by means of their memories , their living . It is the ultimate communitarian realization . But it is a realization that does not last .
The shadows grow “ DARKER .” It is time to be judged . We tried to be good , to love our neighbors and live in the light . We are , after all , the same man who once announced in “ The Honest Truth ” ( from the band ’ s 2011 EP , A New Kind of House ) that we are true even if we are not always honest , and that we should be kind to all of our neighbors . But we failed to take our own advice then . That chorus of voices warned us years ago that we had let the devil into our home . But now it turns out that the devil ’ s mansion has many rooms , and we might have been living in his home all along . And so , frightened as we are , we beg for help as we face the end . As in “ Claws Pt . II ,” we want to live and don ’ t want to live : something ’ s got to give . The water rises again . Listen . We try hard
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