The Thematic Closing of an Album’s Journey
Lyrics:
In the light of the sun lit rays
in the light of what sank for daysIn the light of the sun lit rays
in the light of what sank for daysis, the anchor of, your soul
don’t forget from you to me,
the tide and winds will not move theeIn the light of the sun lit rays
in the light of what sank for daysIn the light of the sun lit rays
in the light of what sank for daysis, the anchor of, your soul
Anchor End, feat. FXRN, feels like the natural, perhaps inevitable, final chapter of this journey. It focuses on the moments when something in life has “sunk”—whether that’s a failure, a loss, a betrayal, or simply a season where we’ve been pulled under. Yet, it reminds us that even in those depths, there is something—an “anchor of your soul”—that holds fast. Something that keeps us grounded and keeps us from being swept entirely away by the tide and wind.
The song doesn’t shy away from the imagery of struggle. It embraces the fact that life carries with it sunlit moments and shadowed days. The anchor here is both literal and symbolic: a point of steadiness when the rest is shifting water. It’s a quiet, steady encouragement that survival is possible, that holding on is worth it.
As the thematic close of the album, Anchor End ties together a wide arc of history, emotion, and metaphor—touching each work that came before it:
- Ashes in Rome (The Stone of Rome) – remembering the fall of empires.
- Ruins of Pharaohs in Egypt (Flys will Pharaoh) – history’s grand powers brought low.
- Mishaps of the Hapsburgs (Haps of Icebergs, Mis) – dynasties undone by missteps.
- Nothing but Blackness Between Light and Dark (Between Light & Dark, Places) – the liminal spaces between extremes.
- Our Darkest Days (Those Days) – and the reminder that they are gone.
- The Relentless Motion of Life (Ebb and Flow) – how change itself becomes a force to reckon with.
- What We Cannot Fully Grasp (Non,e) – the cryptic spaces between meaning and mystery.
- Lacks in a Ballroom (What Lacks of Ball, Room) – the absence of what should be there.
- Burning Pastures (Bright Pastures) – the risks of what we think will help.
- The Search for the End (Close, what?) – and the questions we never quite answer.
- Silence and Struggles (Velo, City) – the quiet wrongs that go unchecked.
- A Meadow Fallen Plain with Lime on Yews (Meadow Fallen Plain) – devastation in the midst of beauty.
- Falls of a Maestro (Falls, Maestro) – leadership, questioned.
- A Broken Mast in the Roadway (Middle of the Roadway) – being stranded mid-journey.
- The Space That Should Be (Ocean Meadows) – what it’s like to be denied space.
In this light, Anchor End is more than just a closing track—it’s the final tether in an album that’s navigated ruins, conflicts, betrayals, losses, and silences. Where so many songs in this set focus on what was lost, destroyed, or left incomplete, Anchor End speaks to what remains.
It’s the reminder that while ships may founder and storms may rage, if the anchor holds, the journey is not over.
—Josh Montague
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