Really like this song--really like the whole album.
This song is consistent with the motif of the album, that of an anesthetized future where the human artifice (industry, technological dependence, global conformity and assimilation) pollutes the human persons sense of humanity.
It seems like the first part of the song presents two characters: "you" in stanzas 1,3,5,7 and "I" in stanzas 2,4,6. At first they seem to be isolated from each other. However, the fact that the speaker, "I", addresses the second character as "you" suggests that they know or have known each other in some capacity prior to the events of this song.
"You" is separated from the city and feels alienated. Ironically, "you" is described as "broken"; the language "broken" denotes mechanization which contrasts the eventual escape away from the mechanical city and into nature.
"I" appears to at least be attempting to shrug off his anxiety he feels in the city. The birds, representative of nature, are brushed away. This suggests the idea that the model citizen of this future age is encouraged to avoid--perhaps even detest--nature in favor of the desensitized mechanical artifice. However, like "you", "I" cannot avoid an oppressive anxiety seemingly caused by the "white noise" of the mindless and uniform human condition.
That's all I can write for now... I'm passing out.
Really like this song--really like the whole album.
This song is consistent with the motif of the album, that of an anesthetized future where the human artifice (industry, technological dependence, global conformity and assimilation) pollutes the human persons sense of humanity.
It seems like the first part of the song presents two characters: "you" in stanzas 1,3,5,7 and "I" in stanzas 2,4,6. At first they seem to be isolated from each other. However, the fact that the speaker, "I", addresses the second character as "you" suggests that they know or have known each other in some capacity prior to the events of this song.
"You" is separated from the city and feels alienated. Ironically, "you" is described as "broken"; the language "broken" denotes mechanization which contrasts the eventual escape away from the mechanical city and into nature.
"I" appears to at least be attempting to shrug off his anxiety he feels in the city. The birds, representative of nature, are brushed away. This suggests the idea that the model citizen of this future age is encouraged to avoid--perhaps even detest--nature in favor of the desensitized mechanical artifice. However, like "you", "I" cannot avoid an oppressive anxiety seemingly caused by the "white noise" of the mindless and uniform human condition.
That's all I can write for now... I'm passing out.
Electric President is awesome.