“Semantics” explores the complicated optics that color any long-term love. “Have you heard about Buddhist monks who meditated on polluted water molecules?” asks the Mynabirds' Laura Burhenn. “The molecules changed from sad, brown amorphous things into beautiful geometric shapes that looked genuinely happy. That's pretty much what this song is about. Long love is tough and it takes a lot of effort. It gets bent out of shape, and brown and a little amorphous over time. So in ‘Semantics’ I'm asking, \"Does it matter what we call things, what we call 'Us'? And yeah, it does. It can change everything. If we call love something beautiful, if we put the energy into it being that, we can transform into that.”
This video was made entirely using the myidol App. A Chinese artist friend of Laura's (Ying Zhu) translated the Chinese subtitles into English, and it's pretty amazing how much those words seem to fit the actual song lyrics...
CHINESE TRANSLATION:
-How much love can be repeated
-how much love can be repeated
-how many people are willing to wait
-learn to appreciate but you may not understand the love that once was there
-do you still have the courage to love
-been through the mountains, been through the sea
-listen
-the cry of the sea
-the sea is overflowing with love
-it cries till morning come
-write to me
-let it be the final promise
-tell me when you leave me
-what do you feel
-I adore you
-those pretty eyes
-your laughter even more attractive
-touching you gently
-the adorable face
-I adore you
-those pretty eyes
-go forward, go forward
-no one love single dogs
-all single dogs stand up
-all single dogs united
-who dare to show affection
-determined to destroy
-go forward go forward
-no one love single dogs
-all single dogs stand up
-this road to life
-filled with sweet dreams
-filled with snow and fog
-the wind dries our faces
-different colors of firework
-open sky vast sea
-the laughter even more attractive
-I wish again and again
-to touch you gently
-how much love
-lonely desert
-the blossom of nakedness
-cry of the sea
-it cries till morning come
-write to me
-let it be the last promise
-single dogs
-no one love single dogs
-all single dogs stand up
-all single dogs united
-who dare to show affection
-determined to destroy
-go forward go forward
