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The birds are up when he collapses
through her door
Spilling out in constellations on her floor
Soaked in liquor he is soft as bread
And everything that's left in him
to beg her to his bed
He is a nocturnal always alone
They all speak in secret codes
that he has never known
In this world but not of it
so he watches from above it
A visitor here, this is not home
I am the spectator
I can see the world passing by from here
And I am just a child to a man
back to the dust where I began
I was never even here at all
I am the spectator
I am the spectator
His eyes like two cats scratching in his head
Begging him for sleep starving for a bed
But sleep it never comes
so he ticks the time away
Hour after hour hear them play
The bells go
Chime, chime, chime
Ticking, ticking time
Chime, chime, chime
Ticking, ticking time.
through her door
Spilling out in constellations on her floor
Soaked in liquor he is soft as bread
And everything that's left in him
to beg her to his bed
He is a nocturnal always alone
They all speak in secret codes
that he has never known
In this world but not of it
so he watches from above it
A visitor here, this is not home
I am the spectator
I can see the world passing by from here
And I am just a child to a man
back to the dust where I began
I was never even here at all
I am the spectator
I am the spectator
His eyes like two cats scratching in his head
Begging him for sleep starving for a bed
But sleep it never comes
so he ticks the time away
Hour after hour hear them play
The bells go
Chime, chime, chime
Ticking, ticking time
Chime, chime, chime
Ticking, ticking time.
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Sam talked about the meaning of this song in an interview: "...It's just feeling like there is a glass wall between you and the world and you're not really a part of it. You see how strange these people are and these things are that happen and it's as though they all know something that you don't or they speak in a code, they have like a secret language. And you're not a part of it. Everybody knows something that you don't. I guess that's what The Spectator is about."
It doesn't have to be so extreme.
I think everyone has got to have had the feeling from The Spectator. That for a moment, you're a-social. You're just watching everything around you.
This song is about soome one who feels alone no matter what he does. I think soaked in liqour is a methapor for something that brings him down. Life. He wants to be someone not just sombody else who's on earth. He wants to make a differance but can't. Time passes and it mocks him. That's what I think.
I think that this song is about a man who lives his life completely out of society, at least emotionally. He goes out and gets drunk at night and comes home in the morning completely smashed, then during the day he watches the world, perhaps on a television set or computer. He probably feels like nothing he does will matter overall and his life is meaningless, he is born, grows up and then dies, so he simply watches what the people who care so much about it all do and how society and the world change around him.