/lit/ - Literature

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I’ve come tonight; I’ve come to know the way we are, see the way we’ll go. I’ve come to measure this, the width of the wide abyss.
(i think she's saying we should take things with a grain of salt as they say and not jump onto every bandwagon that comes along)

I come to you in restless sleep where all your dreams turn bittersweet with voodoo doll philosophies and day-glo holy trinities.

(I believe she is saying we're filled with beliefs which aren't backed by reality)

The crooked raft that leaves the shore ferries drunken souls aboard.
(?? crooked raft would suggest a dangerous trip ahead or ill-planned perhaps for "drunken souls" which may mean the souls (us) are not in our right minds or mislead)
Pilgrims march to Compestela,
(Compestella = ancient Campus Stellae, Eng Compostella 42°52N 8°37W, pop (2000e) 106 000. City in La Coruña province, Galicia, NW Spain, on R Sar; former capital of the Kingdom of Galicia; world-famous place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages (shrine of St James))


visions of their saint in yellow.
(St. James shrine located there)


All follow, deep in trance, all lost in a catatonic dance.

(deliberate movements but without thought; robotic)

Know no future, damn the past: blind, warm, ecstatic, safe at last.
('Ignorance is bliss', to put it quite plainly)


(2/2) the song name is thick as thieves

https://youtu.be/HioRdw_D3U8