It’s purely metaphorical. These songs are not about natural disaster. It’s not that black and white. It’s all encrypted, but it seems clear to me if you make the effort to pay attention. For example, the tornado song is about capitalism running without regard to human concerns, the lightning song is about how we are attracted to the one person that can break us down the best like a bolt of lightning....I mean what are the chances of that mathematically? Uh let’s see what else....the common cold is just about avoiding closeness with people—kinda like a fear of commitment song, I guess. The blizzard one is about blind faith and how dangerous I think it is. I don’t know; I guess I could go on, but this seems long winded.
Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1
Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 is the sixth and unfortunately final album by the American band the pAper chAse. It was released on May 26, 2009 to, from what I can tell, split acclaim: the people who already liked the pAper chAse adored it for the most part, but the people who didn't like or didn't "get" the band panned it pretty hard. Which is their loss, because in my opinion, the album is a 10/10. I'm a sucker for concept albums, and this is just above NIN's Year Zero as my favorite concept album of all time. It both is and is Not about natural disasters, despite the subtitles on each song. As John Congleton himself said in an interview shortly after the album came out,
May 26, 2009
Tracklist
- "if nobody moves nobody will get hurt (the extinction)" – 5:53
- "im going to heaven with or without you (the forest fire)" – 4:48
- "the common cold (the epidemic)" – 3:34
- "the laying of hands the speaking in tongues (the mass hysteria)" – 2:52
- "your money or your life (the comet)" – 4:31
- "what should we do with your body? (the lightning)" – 6:07
- "this is a rape (the flood)" – 3:52
- "the small of your back the nape of your neck (the blizzard)" – 3:42
- "this is only a test (the tornado)" – 7:01
- "we have ways to make you talk (the human condition)" – 4:15
Below, I'm going to go into each song somewhat in-depth, writing about it, how I feel about it, what it's about, etc. Buckle up and enjoy!
- 1. "if nobody moves nobody will get hurt (the extinction)"
It's getting closer, it's getting closerblah blah blah blah
Closer every day
blah blah blah
- 2. "im going to heaven with or without you (the forest fire)"
Good luck, godspeed, goddamn you all.blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah
- 3. "the common cold (the epidemic)"
I've done so many bad things and,blah blah blah blah
I never seem to get clean.
No pecking order, please;
I've done too many bad things
blah blah blah
- 4. "the laying of hands, the speaking of tongues (the mass hysteria)"
I command you to leave this body.blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah
- 5. "your money or your life (the comet)"
I'm part of the sunblah blah blah blah
I married the moon--
my brother, the comet
blah blah blah
- 6. "what should we do with your body? (the lightning)"
This is a test. For the next 60 seconds, this station will conduct a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test.blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah
- 7. "this is a rape (the flood)"
This is a rape, this is a bankrupt robbery, a grand larcenyblah blah blah blah
So hands can go up, this is a stickup
Give me everything.
blah blah blah
- 8. "the small of your back the nape of your neck (the blizzard)"
'Cause God only knows how cold it's gettingblah blah blah blah
And by His design, He must know we're starving
blah blah blah
- 9. "this is only a test (the tornado)"
I think this is it - the last thing I'm ever going to record.The quote, sampled from something or another (which is something the band adored doing throughout their oeuvre, though I couldn't find a source for what this specific line is from), is in the middle of "this is only a test (the tornado)", and is oddly prescient, considering that Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 2 never saw the light of day. However, I would be remiss if I didn't mention John Congleton's solo album released in 2016, Until the Horror Goes, which incorporated many of the themes and lyrics that were probably going to go into Someday Vol. 2. And thank god he did, because that album is a banger too!
At any rate, this song is... wow. One of the only songs I've heard to, fittingly enough, incorporate the sounds of a tornado siren.
- 10. "we have ways to make you talk (the human condition)"
We have ways to make you talkblah blah blah blah
But I am horrified that you will say it's meaningless
A cosmic joke on me
blah blah blah
^John Congleton^
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