doublewuzzy wrote:Maybe I missed this in an earlier post, but what exactly is she referring to by "Kingfisher?" I haven't been a fan of the song but I'm trying to listen to it more, but I don't really know the words through and through. So what's a Kingfisher?
Wikipedia says it is, among other things:
-a bird
-a sloop
-a clipper (it says this one was Californian, so perhaps it is this)
Wanbli wrote:it appears to be a WWII plane as well?
I felt the song has to do with faith in God, faith in general - during wartime? A story of love and faith during a war? Other ideas?
Weirdelves wrote:I'm sure she's referring to the actual bird, I had assumed the myth of Halcyon was also involved.
Wanbli wrote:yeah this song is an enigma wrapped in a mystery to me
I thought it was the bird for a long time, but now believe that it may be an aircraft or ship and this is a song that references war...perhaps WWII, Pearl Harbor maybe. Islands, shores, volcanoes...
Seems the perspective she is telling it from changes
some lines re: war
Beneath the drifting ashes?
Beneath the sheeting banks of air
That barrenly bore our rations?
(ashes after a bombing, rations are a common war term)
preparing for when the bombs hit
Hung from the underbelly of the earth
While the stars skid away below
Gormless and brakeless, gravel-loose
Falling silent as gavels in the snow
(reference to a bomb-shelter?)
When the sky had set to boiling?
(again fire in the sky- bombs)
Beneath the drifting ashes