The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box

I get the impression that this song is about evolution and how it's created something (us) that has backfired and how that creation is going to destroy everything else that's been created and we just don't care for the most part.

"The world's an inventor We're the dirtiest thing it's thought about And we really don't mind"

The line "We're gonna throw a party / All the ghosts of trees are coming out" makes me think of deforestation.

It's just a very strong 'creation destroying the creator' them.

"you're gonna wanna see this, don't bring your camera around" Haha I love this line. I feel like the camera and picture taking obsession withdraws us from the actual experience, Isaac might be commenting on this with that line.

This album is like listening to a musical version of This American Life. Little snippets of so many small and sometimes creepy aspects of things that are happening and have happened. This is a nice album. Very different from anything before, but that's no surprise.

@grungybeatle, you made me get an account. It's so amazing that Isaac can provoke so many interesting and awesome interpretations of his jams. Yours is wonderful! My take is, it's a ballad with a message on how this planet we live on is self sustaining and nurturing. It provided everything for every living thing, and we, as people take advantage, destroy, and hurt the world during our existence (or travel through time)!

Just listened to this off the new album, if the rest of it is anything like this song it's going to be amazing. Just a few weeks now till its release!

I think this is the best song on the album.

Before reading the lyrics, I got the impression that this song is capturing this essence of dancing around our true worries in a neurotic sense. I feel this fits in with a lyrical set capturing honest anxieties of societies effect on nature and existence itself. Dancing around a bonfire of ghoulish destruction.

Hopelessly hopeless I hope so for you … :-) love my mice whom are modest. Those dirty little fuckers.

After watching the video with the clear references to Game of Thrones, I think this is about our obsession with electronics in particular Television which distracts us from the real things going on like the destruction of the planet.

This song tells the darker side of the story of America. Deforestation, Indian Removal, Needless destruction because of landlust. If you look back in time this is all true, as America was formed, people started to care less and less about the planet that gave them life and more about themselves and their wants, due to frequent distractions. It depicts what has happened on human's 'travel through time'. Eventually, if this keeps happening, Earth will come to no good, and we will consequently be reversed in time.