Eight arms. Eight graves. A signal in the dark.
beneath the surface.
Dissociation, fractured memory and the distance between being touched and being held.
an unanswered signal.
Eight arms become a way of counting everything that was held, taken, or lost. Beneath the verbal velocity, there is a much quieter SOS. The details are intentionally left partly below the surface.
what does eight arms mean?
“That’s the trouble with having eight arms. Everyone remembers being held down. Nobody agrees on what happened next.”
why does the song feel so intimate and so distant?
“There’s a lot of touching in this song. Not a lot of being held.”
Selected draft answers from the song’s wider notes. The full archive is still being assembled.