Night Class

The fifth song from Embers, entitled “Night Class“, is frigid poesy accompanied by the return of the frenzied chorus motif to remind you that this is a sedate tragedy, one of feigned deception and exhaustion from the toll of relentless desire. It can do one in completely. Let’s now watch our wallets; there are thieves about. And they typically have been made that way by being thrown in a dunce chair or bamboozled into seeing ghosts, etc. So yes, it’s the ghosts again, too.

So concludes what appears to be Act One of Embers. It neatly divides into two halves of five songs each, thematically. During Act Two all artifice is shed, and all truly dark and ruthless things start to percolate up that could never have been even remotely anticipated during the first Act.