I know I’m late, but I love how the album goes through the stages of grief and recovery, including a relapse. The fact that most of the music during grief is fuzzy and super loud, while recovery is more clear perfectly describes how going through grief feels. It should be somewhat obvious, but I feel the need to list which song relates to what and how, some of them are rough guesses though. The first, When I Wrote a Song for You, is likely the reason for grieving, assuming someone’s death from a car crash from the cover photo. I also believe it could’ve been someone they had a rough relationship with, only realizing the value it really did have after their death. A Shift doesn’t represent denial too much but represents that incomprehensible change. Hydra is anger, with the music being loud and intense. The Hydra is also a giant reptile that has a head count double when one of its heads is cut, and anger can have the same effect. Saw you in the Kitchen is likely Depression, judging from how slow it is. That hopeless feeling of not wanting to move on and sticking in one place describes depression in grief fairly well. The Doubt is bargaining. Not much explaining to do other than the lyrics constantly saying “Are you sure?” And ending with “I’m not sure”. Choosing can be really tough when you’re already in a bad spot. I don’t know all the stages of recovery that well, but most of the music is more upbeat until Ties and Knots. It’s back to feeling melancholic from depression, and the name of the song even says so. You can’t let go of the past and that pain will always stick to you until you learn to love it. It ends with Its Only You, which has a sad tone and is louder near the end, but it is acceptance. The music does get loud in some areas which is likely that last remnant of pain left. It’s important to know that you should embrace and have happy tears instead of mourning over what you don’t have now, but what you did have. From there on, you can focus on the future and what you have as an individual, holding onto your greatest values until your own eventual end, where someone else will carry your values.
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I know I’m late, but I love how the album goes through the stages of grief and recovery, including a relapse. The fact that most of the music during grief is fuzzy and super loud, while recovery is more clear perfectly describes how going through grief feels.
It should be somewhat obvious, but I feel the need to list which song relates to what and how, some of them are rough guesses though.
The first, When I Wrote a Song for You, is likely the reason for grieving, assuming someone’s death from a car crash from the cover photo. I also believe it could’ve been someone they had a rough relationship with, only realizing the value it really did have after their death.
A Shift doesn’t represent denial too much but represents that incomprehensible change.
Hydra is anger, with the music being loud and intense. The Hydra is also a giant reptile that has a head count double when one of its heads is cut, and anger can have the same effect.
Saw you in the Kitchen is likely Depression, judging from how slow it is. That hopeless feeling of not wanting to move on and sticking in one place describes depression in grief fairly well.
The Doubt is bargaining. Not much explaining to do other than the lyrics constantly saying “Are you sure?” And ending with “I’m not sure”. Choosing can be really tough when you’re already in a bad spot.
I don’t know all the stages of recovery that well, but most of the music is more upbeat until
Ties and Knots. It’s back to feeling melancholic from depression, and the name of the song even says so. You can’t let go of the past and that pain will always stick to you until you learn to love it.
It ends with Its Only You, which has a sad tone and is louder near the end, but it is acceptance. The music does get loud in some areas which is likely that last remnant of pain left. It’s important to know that you should embrace and have happy tears instead of mourning over what you don’t have now, but what you did have. From there on, you can focus on the future and what you have as an individual, holding onto your greatest values until your own eventual end, where someone else will carry your values.
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