Bring It All Back references

"I'd been carving you
To see what form you'd take
You were hiding in ivory
I just wanted to free your shape..."

Hip Head Tina from Michigan offers this: "So, in "Bring it All Back," the lines "I'd been carving you... I just wanted to free your shape" screams Michelangelo to me. I had to take two semesters of art history in college, and Michelangelo talked about seeing the shape and freeing (liberating) what he saw in the marble. I wish I could find it now, but I remember reading some extract of a letter or something where he talked about struggling to liberate what he saw in the marble. Maybe it was with the Awakening Slave."

Darcy from Ottawa suggests an Inuit connection to the material being carved here,

"Growing up my dad always told me these lyrics were about the Inuit carving animals from Ivory, which makes sense because Gord often wrote the indigenous into his lyrics. Inuit Ivory carvings are a very popular symbol of Canadian art and can be found in galleries all over Canada."

"It's gotta be here
In your spider-web alphabets..."

Tina also suggests, "spider-web alphabets" seems like another Charlotte's Web reference."