A few thoughts based on his Twitter comments...
I thought it was interesting that he said only three of the songs are about a serial killer (Blackest Eyes, The Creater Has a Mastertape, Strip the Soul), when many have long thought that most of the songs were about one.
He said he stills like it, but Prodigal is his least favorite from it, in large part because he thinks it sounds too Floyd-ian, and he said he tends to not like the songs as much now that he considers too Floyd-ian, like this one, Time Flies and The Sky Moves Sideways. He wishes now that Drown with Me had been on the proper album instead of Prodigal, although he admits that Prodigal was better recorded.
Loved his description of Trains: ‘Trains’ is about childhood summers. It’s a paean to those formative seasons when the sun’s hang-time stretches long into the evenings and bedtimes are delayed. I think most of our adult life we spend trying to live up to those experiences, in an attempt to recapture the magic. A time of very little responsibility, wonderment and discovery. A time of innocence and naivety. You will never have those first experiences again—your first kiss, the first time you heard your favourite band or saw your favourite movie, whatever it is.
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