“So yes, the tense has since shifted into the past, see, in accordance to the progress of this theme in reality –
Already caught, you see. And when that happened, it was true, the 'we' in this whole scenario were powerless to do anything . . .
Let me point out something else: why does he still feel like he's still hanging on the edge despite the catch? Well, that's in terms of my expectations -because in terms of that, we've hit a dead stall, I am powerless to do anything about it and so is he. I did not get definite confirmation that this is happening, I did not get a response, it's cliff edge suspense in a holding pattern, it has not, from my pov, been affirmed the way it should been, (because it should have mattered one hellofalot more to any party concerned); there has been no real acknowledgement that lets one know, for certain, it's acknowledgment. There has not been any communication -and the act of communicating about it, would be the process of determining and affirming its reality. It would achieve tangibility in that moment, a tangibility that would allow it to be defined as real without contest, because it would surface. (Artistic tangibility remains confined by its very definition -it's just art, not reality!)
How Honeysweet would such an affirmation be?
Do you realize he might feel it even if he didn't know how it happened, even if he could never agree this might have been linked to how it happened? -That it would be his own? -Their own?
My interior feelings get turned into universalities a fair bit, individually felt or expressed by you. (Heh, and if you're aware of Kid A, you'd be able to recognize this as one of Radiohead's usual patterns ‘How to Disappear Completely’ ‘The National Anthem' -by title alone, this one's inferring a universality, that the sensation is some sort of a common identity not a personal one, very paradoxical since the actual isolation expressed is the epitome of what could be sensed by one individual -so how come from this vantage, this paradox makes perfect sense?) The lack of affirmation puts this on a flipping spaghetti string; it really does feel like it would take nothing to blow us away.
And we're identified as Backdrifters (plus rotten fruit and damaged goods). Backdrifters because right now we're backdrifting, and then the final verse seems to elucidate why the we/he in the previous verses might be going through this: Apparently, the one who got caught falling into their arms, is presently going into the past, backtracking over their own footprints, because the footsteps give them away!!! Heh, there's even a problem with the 'evidence', it's been erased, apparently, even deliberately buried…Hmm… Please, just take a simple look, Right Now, can't you see, that you're the object of the Mystery; in terms of this moment that we [three->universal] are in, you're the sole possible witness.
Heads up; you just a 70 page review of past footprints, for the express purpose that the footprints would give me away. Let's call it by its fifth line and say it's 'the Mystery Revisited' - Or shall we say looped? First time there's been feedback about going back over, the feedback loop…I'd call that backtracking, what do you think? You just got a 70 page review of how the feedback came out, along with the original footprints. It actually goes against my principles, because I thought going back over the tracks like this was backdrifting. It was one of the things I refused to do, for oh say, five years. Not just in terms of a record, but mentally too. I did not review anything because that would be allowing yourself to be modified by it and that was not moving forward, developing or arriving at something new. The Journal was pretty much the first time I started doing it, and then I was not too worried anymore. To rely on the past for support and be continually reversing through it struck me as a way you could enter a form of decay. Damaged goods? I think we know. Maybe in addition it was in part due to that 'major catfight' happening during the wedding, too… think about it, there was an epiphany of entering a spiritual union and an all-out war over ideas on a website that transpired at the exact same time. […] Think that qualifies as burying the evidence?
Hmm, I guess that helps explain why the honeymoon was over so quickly”.