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| The Blue Nowhere/Vivarium
This list will contain major spoilers for the movie Vivarium. So if you haven't seen it, give it a watch, and then come back here later. It's an interesting movie to say the least that has very similar vibes to Between the Buried and Me's new album The Blue Nowhere. All of this is purely up to my own speculation.
"The salesman" in this maniacal twilight zone esque world shows this couple to the neighbourhood, let's call it "The Blue Nowhere". They become trapped there and left with a baby. They are told to raise the baby and only then they will be set free. But that doesn't work out as planned. They act as "hosts" to the raising of the new "salesman". Once the deed is done, they are killed and the cycle continues. | | 1 |  | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
The Things We Tell Ourselves In Dark
So if you've seen the movie Vivarium, we shall continue. The movie and Between the Buried and Me's The Blue Nowhere I find have very similar vibes to them. They have this sterile, twilight zone esque freakiness to them.
The intro song feels like the inviting exterior to the "house salesman's" business. Only to find out things get a bit more sinister as it goes along. | | 2 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
God Terror
Pretty self explanatory. This song represents the sinister side to "the salesman". | | 3 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
Absent Thereafter
"A pyramid of minds stare towards the stars
O geometric, organized polyhedron of secrets and deceit"
Perhaps this means that the previous salesman's are looking towards the current one for them to succeed in their task.
"The human forms, moon shows its gleam
Lights up this hopeless, wide-eyed crowd
A circular pattern, not moving
Alone, but together
The stars stand still for the first time
For the first time in history"
This might be the event of the first time this has happened. As a sort of backstory. "Alone, but together", the couple looking for a house are alone, but together.
"This place is the plan?
La-di-da-di
The wind seems
Seems to have stopped
The sounds erase
A spaced glitch, full stop
La-di-da-di
The wind seems
Seems to have stopped
The sounds erase
A spaced glitch, full stop"
This is describing "the neighbourhood" perfectly. There is no wind in the movie, either. "This place is the plan?" They are forming the neighbourhood for the first time. | | 4 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
"Into our void, I join and gaze above
Slowly, the bodies around me start floating
Oh baby, let me see you fly
Entwined and in sync
I'm sheltered, so sheltered, and separate
Calloused, circular misery"
The salesman is joining the others to begin the cycle.
"Bring back the altar
Absent thereafter"
The salesman in this maniacal twilight zone esque world shows this couple to the neighbourhood, let's call it "The Blue Nowhere". They become trapped there and left with a baby. They are told to raise the baby and only then they will be set free. But that doesn't work out as planned. They act as "hosts" to the raising of the new "salesman". Once the deed is done, they are killed and the cycle continues. Then the salesman is "absent thereafter" to leave for the new salesman to take his place. It feels a bit existential from the salesman's perspective. | | 5 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
Pause
"Revel in dark cover
Speak up and be a critical partner
Sleep tight"
From the perspective of the baby now grown to "The Boy" in the movie. Sinister and maniacal. Preying on the couple as they sleep.
"Drink the ache
Wear the rust
Of moments lost
Of fleeting trust
Of fleeting trust
Drink the ache
Wear the rust
Of moments lost
Of fleeting trust
Of fleeting trust
Of fleeting trust"
"Drink the ache", nothing has taste in The Blue Nowhere. Every time the couple drinks or eats it's a painful experience. "Of fleeting trust", the couple is forced to trust they will be set free, but they know in the back of their mind this trust is fleeting. | | 6 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
Door #3
"They've sent my thoughts to you
Clinging to life, so tired
An ancient looping reunion
Looping reunion"
The salesman's scheme is an endless loop. "Looping reunion".
"Stop time
The world moves on
Rewind
The winds of our moments lost
Stop time
The world moves on
Rewind
The winds of our moments lost"
Rewind the scheme back again.
"Please, I can change
Come visit, I can change
I skinned my knee by habit
My insides are covered in static
Please, I can change
Come visit, I can change
I skinned my knee by habit
My insides are covered in static"
The salesman maniacally claiming that he can change. But he knows he never will. | | 7 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
Mirador Uncoil
Will discuss more about this in the next song. | | 8 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
Psychomanteum
More direct movie events parallels.
"Sit with yourself in silence
You can hear electricity
Secret of the temple
Sit with yourself in silence
Found liminal spaces
You can hear electricity
Their lives"
The couple are in complete silence all the time. They can hear the buzz of the "electricity" as The Boy watches TV static eerily as they sleep. The whole neighbourhood is a big liminal space. A complete uncanny valley type place.
"Mirador
Uncoil
Un
La Mort
Coil
Un
La Mort
Coil"
The Boy is getting older and starts preying on the couple even more, until he starts toying with them, and terrorising them. He makes his strike.
"We are anything but possible"
This fuckery should not exist. Yet it does. Shit. | | 9 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
Slow Paranoia
The entirety of Vivarium is pure paranoia and dread. There's always something sinister looming.
"Slow paranoia
Behind door number three
Look in the darkness
The batch is warm, but they are watching"
They try other The Blue Nowhere's doors, even door number three, yet it still does nothing. The other salesmen are watching maniacally.
"As if
Nature has
Left this place
Fever dreamer"
A tongue in cheek remark from the boy/salesman. The couple are fever dreaming for a way out. | | 10 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
The Blue Nowhere
Kind of an epilogue to all that has happened.
"Don't wash the innocent night
Its dirt cleansed this home
The crushing glare, often opens up the blue nowhere"
"The crushing glare", the couples glare for a new home at The Blue Nowhere.
"Wander alone
Held by our own
Time... is the chemical
Searching
Lost and synthetic"
Switching to the perspective of the salesman. Another rare existential moment for him. "Time... is the chemical". Time is needed for the couple to raise The Boy to be the next salesman. "Searching, lost and synthetic". The salesman is constantly searching, he admits he's lost in this world, and he's not human. A "synthetic" creature instead.
"When we see it
When we feel it
Equilibrium"
The couple get their dream home, if for just a fleeting moment. The salesman is able to continue the cycle. "Equilibrium". | | 11 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
Beautifully Human
"Don't let me wake up
Marigold, marigold
Don't let me wake up
Marigold, marigold"
The salesman never wants to wake up from the cycle. He's reminiscing about his business tagline from the start, "marigold".
"The clock slows down where nothing grows
Weightless paper skin cracks to the bone
Fading fast, faster than I sink in
A fragile shadow
Come closer"
Time is frozen in The Blue Nowhere. Nothing grows. The salesman's skin might as well be paper cracking to the bone. He's nearing the end of his life cycle, ready for the next salesman to take his place. "Fading fast, a fragile shadow". Asking the couple to "come closer" to continue the cycle.
"Let me rot here in this grace, don't pull back
Like blood drying, watch this vessel melt away"
The current salesman's final moments. | | 12 | | Between the Buried and Me
The Blue Nowhere
"As it is, what it was
Things we tell ourselves in the dark
As it is, what it was
Things we tell ourselves in the—"
"As it is, what it was" business as usual. "Things we tell ourselves in the dark". They tell themselves they want this but deep down they want to end the cycle, because they are developing empathy for the "hosts". | |
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