Peeled Apples

Man, this is such a deep, deep song. Each line carries so much weight. Nobody writes lyrics like this any more.

"The more I see, the less I scream."

You get numb to tragedies and injustice when you see so much of it. So the more you see, the less you feel a strong reaction (scream).

"The figure 8 inside out is infinity"

Talking about running in circles, never getting anywhere.

"The naked lightbulb is always wrong"

A naked (uncovered) lightbulb brings enough light to see everything. You see the ugliness in life you want to really ignore.

"They make your break complete"

Focus exposes what is broken.

"Then they blow it to kingdom come"

People would rather wait until something is totally destroyed that take the effort to fix it.

"Riderless horses on Chomsky's camelot"

A riderless horse is a tradtion at American state funeral processions. Noam Chomsky wrote a book called "Rethinking Camelot" tearing down myths about John F. Kennedy, showing he wasn't as good of a leader as the re-writing of history makes him out to be. "Camelot" is a name given to the Kennedy family compound since they are treated as the closest thing to American Royalty.

"Bruises on my hands from digging my nails out"

A martyr/crucifixtion reference.

"A series of images against you and me"

People would rather focus on someone else's problems than their own.

"Trespass your torment if you are what you want to be"

If you succeeded at what you want to do in life, don't bemoan it.

"I once impersonated a shopwork dummy"

Richey was seen as just MSP's mascot in the days before he was respected as a lyricist, since he didn't actually play any instruments. The Holy Bible made people respect Richey, but before then he was mocked and hated by non-fans.

"The Levi jean will always be stronger than the Uzi"

I believe this is a pun on (Primo) Levi gene. Levi was a Holocaust survivor who wrote books and poems about his experiences in Auschwitz, one poem is in the artwork to MSP's Gold Against The Soul album. This says the will to survive is stronger than the violent force and oppression its up against.

"A dwarf takes his cockerel out of the cockfight"

Cockerel is a young rooster, taken out by another small, weak being (a human dwarf). So that's talking about the weak not putting up a fight.

"Falcons attack the pigeons in the west wing at night"

Falcons are big, strong, violent birds that always get their way (those in power) Pigeons are like the impoverished weaklings of the birds. Even though pigeons (impoverished people) outnumber falcons (the powerful), they still get dominated. And the inner-dealings to screw over the majority of the world are done in darkness (The West Wing of the White House, where the work is done, at night.)