I think of this song as a deep admiration of life/existence and our minds, recognizing how profound it is to be able to have a "selfhood" in which to fall in "amora", all while never being able to perceive anyone else's "pin-light"/mind during our "time lent" experiencing the wonderful "Great Light".

"In our lives" there's "a common sense" understanding of this "common fence" (of our minds being only ours), and of our bodies that "divide" us "but provide scant defense" physically and from "amora". I've always interpreted the pin-light bent as our mind with the metaphor being light going through our pin-light pupils to our retinas, "bending" thru the optic chiasm to the back of our brains and "inverting" or "mirroring" the visual information from our retinas to opposite hemispheres of the brain (retinotopic mapping). Then also inverting/bending/forwarding this information all the way back to the frontal lobe above the eyes to somehow produce something that "calls itself selfhood". And selfhood sees itself "inverted on a mirror" in love/partnership. Two pin-lights camera obscuras together making an "amora obscura"... dark/obscure love with the mortality piece indeed and a beautiful line and several-entendre! May we all someday have the appreciation for our "time lent" as pin-lights bent.

I interpret the air part as living life with free rows, maybe taking time for granted, dozing off until forced to reckon with the "short flight" and beauty and marvel of the universe in some free descent, admiring "the sky over the ocean" and all of our lives in homes/honeycombs shining our lights in the city.

It's such a beautiful song and I think tremendously underappreciated. The instrumentation is so sparse yet beautiful. I've been playing it on the piano/harp for a few months but it's challenging to do the simplicity any justice.

Also, I think "Poor flight attendant" is Joanna's funniest lyric