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Old 03-23-2012, 01:25 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I think the abstractness of the lyrics help prevent the album from turning into a complete cheesefest. I mean, just imagine if they were to tackle the subject in a more literal, straight-forward sense.

The idea that you can just sing words that carry some kind of association you want in your music without necessarily stringing them together to shape meaning in the form of complete sentences - as they do in Siberian Khatru - is a really cool idea, I think.
I think it would de-cheesify it if anything. I find the track And You and I to be especially annoying lyrically, the song is quite meaningless to my mind.
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