The music video depicts a man in a fit of hypergraphia. There is a bottle of mysterious liquid (possibly ansinthe) and several nondescript pills on his desk (amphetamines?). As the song/video progresses he becomes increasingly manic as he rises out of his chair and flies around the room while he appears to experience a number of hallucinogenic visuals. This seems to indicate that the lyrics are referring to the addictive pleasure/suffering of ecstatic writing (possibly under the influence of drugs). The author is writing obsessively for the sake of regulating his reality and sense of self (he's able to "calm his mind," reality and fiction "melt together," he fills the void of meaning in his life "with sense", his "mind expands"). However, he may also be writing for the sake of erasing himself in the act of writing or symptomatically self-negating (note the lyric he's "made blind to the fact that [he's] a man"). Of course, all of this erodes his sanity and utterly sinks his time.
The music video depicts a man in a fit of hypergraphia. There is a bottle of mysterious liquid (possibly ansinthe) and several nondescript pills on his desk (amphetamines?). As the song/video progresses he becomes increasingly manic as he rises out of his chair and flies around the room while he appears to experience a number of hallucinogenic visuals. This seems to indicate that the lyrics are referring to the addictive pleasure/suffering of ecstatic writing (possibly under the influence of drugs). The author is writing obsessively for the sake of regulating his reality and sense of self (he's able to "calm his mind," reality and fiction "melt together," he fills the void of meaning in his life "with sense", his "mind expands"). However, he may also be writing for the sake of erasing himself in the act of writing or symptomatically self-negating (note the lyric he's "made blind to the fact that [he's] a man"). Of course, all of this erodes his sanity and utterly sinks his time.