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TL was talking about grim lyrics way back there, and I wanted to comment on that. The lyrics are always rather grim and despairing but the music is beautiful and often ethereal and so very good that it's as though I don't even feel the grim despair. Music counts about 9/10ths and words about 1/10th for me, maybe. I get a completely different impression of HTTT than you, and I'm guessing it's because of that.
For instance, Thom said Street Spirit (Fade Out) was a completely depressing song about how death eats everything in the end, but I don't hear it that way. I hear the beauty of the music as directly demonstrating that life, which is the sort of foreground of the universe to death's background, is fragile and precious and all the more beloved because of the contrast, the way diamonds sparkle more beautifully when set against black velvet. That's how their music feels to me.
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my main reason for asking is that I moved just last week, and completely forgot to take care of an address change from the order end. but I have changed it with USPS, so it shouldn't be an issue right?
*goes to stare out window and wait for the mailman*
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