The Wake of Magellan: Difference between revisions

Magellan returns to the beach that he left to die. His hourglass is waiting for him, repaired and refilled. He pushes his boat out to sea and walks up the beach towards the cafe, the ocean saying farewell as it erases his footprints in the tide.

 

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The CD booklet provides the basic story with many details not found in the lyrics. The narrative is a bit disjointed and the real world connections seemingly out of place with Magellan's story.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Part of why Magellan decides to kill himself. Gangsters run cities, poisoning them with drugs, and murder the few brave enough to try and stop them with impunity. The youth happily throw their lives away for a fix. Men can be tossed overboard to drown on a single man's whim and nobody tries to stop him until the ''fourth'' such murder would happen. Even when the authorities are brought in, international law and corruption allows for the murderers to live comfortably while the charges are manhandled until the courts grow tired of pursuing them. The whistleblower is stuck in a foreign country awaiting his role in a trial, his family harassed overseas, unemployed, and the opposing lawyers ''suing him''.

* [[I Have a Family]]: The stowaways on the ship pleaded with photos of their families and were still thrown overboard.

* [[Music/Instrumentals|Instrumentals]]: "The Ocean" and "Underture".

* [[Scrapbook Story]]: The booklet opens with newspaper clipping reporting the two events that inspired the album.

* [[Villain Song]]: "Complaint in the System", the song of the Irish drug dealers and the mobsters concerning how the status quo was established by them and they aim to protect it.