#your glow

[a-placeholder-of-a-human]

"It's time for you to go, but you never lost your glow"

And then John Darnielle shot me 37 times in the chest😔

[tmg-lyrics-daily]

Adrift for half your life, headed home today

[tmg-lyrics-daily]

Thirteen gone, one vanished. You well on your way

[reogan]

If I were in charge of staging Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan and I only had the album to go off of, no direction or notes from John or whatever, I would make the Narrator a poor swimmer (Fishing Boat: Learning to float/swim/tread water) who in the wreck is clearly doomed. He's just a kid (Fishing Boat: 16 on a fishing boat/Just once before you're grown) and he's going to die and it's all Balkan's fault (Your Glow: You lost your feeling for the waves before we ran aground). Of course storied Captain Peter Balkan is a mighty swimmer. He sees what's happening, and he goes after the kid. Maybe he even abandons the spar he's holding onto or whatever in order to reverse Titanic the lad to it.

And in the process, in saving the Narrator, that's when he gets bashed in the head by debris. That's the source of his injury. Peter Balkan, in saving a child from the doom he wrought, sows his own destruction and, thereby, his apotheosis.

[akanamay]

its time for you to go -but you never lost your glow / when we wake up from the big dreams - of empires on the surf - if theres nothing left but water - then let water be enough / adrift for half your life - headed home today / be still and then remember - you never lost your glow

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