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From the album “To Be Kind.” The songs seems to describe the imperfection that might lie within a god, its needs and fragility.
Mentioned early in the song, the black chasm likely represents a mortal wound, a blood stain creeping ever larger. It leaks blood “forever”, or at least for the rest of this person’s life – their forever.
It could also symbolize death as it always creeps up on us and leaks into our lives when loved ones pass away.
The “universal mind” is a concept discussed by Norman Mailer in his novel “Why Are We in Vietnam?” Abbreviated, it becomes “um.” Mailer explains how people say “um” to call out to a higher consciousness when their thoughts become disorganized.
This could also be a reference to the Spiritus Mundi or “world spirit” that poet W.B. Yeats refers to in his poem The Second Coming. Both this piece and that one have dark, intense, hopeless tones.
Some say love is the thing that is in the centre of all humans, which is pretty much in other words, the act of caring about something/someone.
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