hey thanks Mike, Marius, Allan & Lynn. I concur about the discernability of the lyrics, and you all make valid points; I think I have listened to too many early REM albums, Radiohead and Nirvana ;p - to me, when one has to read the lyrics to understand them, it kinda draws the listener in more, making them more involved in the artistic process. Getting a song like this on the radio will never happen, and is not necessarily a concern of mine, especially in the weird alien 'experimental' format this opus lives in. Perhaps the obscurity also helps dampen the personal relationship i have to the lyrics as well, leaving their interpretation open for a more 'customization' of understanding for the listener and their own life & experiences. For as to me, the lyrics kinda span a lifetime of things that have made/broken me eg my Jesuit education, my marriage ending with my wife's tragic accident, her coma/amnesia/ensuing physical-mental handicap, my spinal cord injury and pain that i live with every day, my spiritual atheism, anomie, nihilism, suicide attempts, drug overdoses, living on the street and in basements of abandoned buildings, jail, being pronounced dead, alien abduction dreams, bipolar vicissitudes, and everything and anything in between.