This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened , it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.

把良心和一件无关紧要的事情病态地联系在一起，恐怕并不能说明真心实意的忏悔，其背后可能有些颇值怀疑和极其荒谬的东西。

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Singer Matthew Caws still has one of the kindest voices in rock, but the message behind "See These Bones" feels a bit more morbid and cryptic than Nada Surf usually gets: A parsing of the words yields something about the way our pending death renders grudges useless.

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