The song asks what of meaning remains after the many ephemeral relationships one strikes up in the course of life have long run aground.
The metaphor of a wall where one might chalk up each new ‘conquest’ is employed. As woman upon woman, lover upon lover is written on the wall, their names – and i...
Lovers' names, carved in walls
Overlap, start to merge
Some of them underneath
Maybe they appear
In graveyards
Maybe they fade away
Weathered and overgrown
Time has told
Meaningful hidden words
Suddenly appear, from the murk
Maybe they're telling us
That the end
Never was
Never will
The words have gone
But the meaning will never disappear
From the wall
Lover’s Carvings was written by Bibio.
Lover’s Carvings was produced by Bibio.
Bibio released Lover’s Carvings on Mon Jun 22 2009.