Infallible!!

Versus13

What do you think of the new tune? It's one of my favourites from LB. It's up there with Sirens and Lightnig Bolt. I was priveleged enough to see the live debut in Pittsburgh 10-11-13. It was amazing. After one listen I can't get it out of my head.

What are your thoughts on it's meaning? Any interpretations? Feel free to share

23scidoo

''how's the view from the fence?''..eddie once again post a great answer for our selfs..

BlaylockM

...what I posted in another link somewhere

I couldn't resist because I love this song. I never took it as preaching or even as a warning to just a few so I'd be disappointed to find out if it's just a critique of capitalism. To me, it has a much, much wider scope. I interpreted it as anything human beings do (anything created in the hearts and minds of men) and how these greats accomplishments no matter how big or small can and will be ruined by the same beings that create them (our ship's come in and it's sinking.) What makes it so unique is that he's telling it as a story of all human beings, but at the same time, it's a story of anything or anybody. It's built on multiple dimensions. It's so complex, it's fucking awesome. Even better, the paradox of the whole thing is being played out like a murder mystery with twists and cliffhangers. You can feel it in the music. It's the same feeling you get when a movie or book turns on you. Then, he circles it back at the end that life will keep going (keep on just as before). Even if you're successful this time around, it doesn't mean you are faultless (infallible), because eventually it's going to catch up to all of us. It's like a film noir movie that ends with a bad guy getting away with it but the director shows you something at the very end that let's you know he will eventually get his.

Like I said I love this song, and maybe I'm tripping out there a little bit, but to me, it's a clever way to tell the story of the mystery of life. We, as people, make this great shit with great highs, but remember we are all infallible and there will be great lows, also. Some of us who have tragedies realize it sooner than others, but those of you who have been lucky and don't realize it (pay disasters no mind...) and think you are faultless or smarter because you've had better luck, yours is coming, too. Furthermore if you think that way, you are on the wrong side of life (how's the view from the fence?). Once everybody understands you and I and everybody are the same, and when we all realize that life is full of these great accomplishments and great failures but they don't really mean a fucking thing, then progress will be plausible.


...and a response I liked

I will add to it my interpretation of the meter of the song, like a clock ticking in the background - which falls in line with what the words convey.

lcusick

I think it is about the earth and how we are polluting it so much that many weather disasters are occurring as a result. As long as it doesn't affect us we carry on as usual and pay no mind to how we are treating the planet. Our ship is coming in and sinking. It will be too late to undo all we have done. Many people are in denial that this is happening. That is my interpretation of Infallible.

TJ25487

Awesome song that is very open for interpretation. Could be about life, the environment, relationships etc.
I am finding that most of the songs on LB are favorites. These tracks are really standing the test of time for me.