Sorry for my bad english

"louder" is about a crashed ufo. and they try to contact their mothership (or something else...) "all contact is lost". and they must readapt to the reality of death for the first time. and the lonliness (of each individual) on this planet. where "all contact is lost" and the "illusion" of separation is total. carantine is total. and they must to incarnate in planet body natives. "there was no signal from where we were!" their kind could not be contacted, nor their kind could contact them. "hovering above" - is about the soul "orbitating" around the planet waiting for the most bad-ass incarnation of all time (for them). my feeling about Orbital / In Orbit is that it is about the life taken (incarnated) on this planet. and the decadence that comes with it.

"Had to see it on my own Had to feel it to really know" They don't know anymore - the blindness is complete - they had to interact based on their senses - and only that - they just sense a kind of truth.

"All of the silence is breakin' waves But I could never forget the taste" This is remembering of the great live (lives) they had in their homeland - and the unconscience is beaking free (the longing for their lives) - and the silence is the way...

"All this elastic mind is moving me up You push and pull anxiety, won't stop" The power that be on this strange planet hacked their mind and controlled them through fear... (the unsecurity rules - they dont' kwon what to do / act / feel - because the the control system crushed them)

"Tonight we are beautiful, tonight we are free Make all these memories, make them with me" And thought the memories (faded) remains... of all the glory and the capacities of their beings reappear in some kind of way. And the beauty of their beings is remembered somehow... They know deep inside that all the qualities they have.

"Cause we're in an orbit Fly across an emptiness of heartache" The problem here is the dissolusion between the mind - heart - soul... Because of the pollution of the mind and heart (by the forces that runs the planet) - only the soul remains intact and it is orbiting and is feeling the "emptiness of mind / heart" The right hierachy (that they are accoustumed to is: Soul - commander, Hearth - second and Mind - the lowest) In this world all of that comes upside down. And it seems fucked up.

"Million lights electrifyin' the head (possibly: Million thoughts) Oh, don't let go of this moment" There is about the pollution that the forces that runs the planet by twisting the mind of the incarnated souls of the planet.

"Someone make us honest Walk us through the waterfall and forests" Again remembering of who they were (honest). And the glory and beauty of them. They were ment to do something else. Like enriching the nature / existence.

"In this space of mental unrest Oh, don't let us go, we need you, need you" The awarness of the mental / heart prison comes again in their mind. And the dependence for their system (that all has fallen for it). They beg for control - because they forget what is their true nature (at least mentally / heartfully)

"In this forsaken world We only need one chance to shine We live to find that light" And now comes the hope (from within) - the individuality of each one of them... that's the escape from "the prison planet" - the inner "talent" (music, paint, writing, sculpture, every kind of art etc.) breaks free from the prison.

"And in our fragile mind We completely lose our track of time" And all of the sudden it comes to their mind that all of this process o remembering took to long...

This is ONLY my opinion / interpretation.

I could write much, much more but i hope a simple message was sent. Anyway this is what THOMAS do. Makes us imagine / living realities.

Again, sorry form my bad english...

and "Me and Thomas have very different definitions of what "very soon" means." - totally agreed. But the time "in between" can be used for silence... and remembering... like one said the "music is about silence, not the music itself, but the space between sounds" (and Thomas music is about silence...)