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Staircase Lyrics
Automaton drone
You're lost with no phone
And the home you made your own
Can never be paid for
The great in the small
The rise and the fall
And you come back for more
The need to belong
And the will to do no wrong
The ones that you lost
Abandoned or crossed
Will haunt you
Plagued by poor health
But you stockpile more wealth
Congratulate yourself
A sense of proportion
An act of extortion
There's too much distortion
You sink in stages
As you're approaching middle ages
You're up to here in debt
Insidious tech
You're up to your neck
Why don't you give it a rest?
A train set
A cold war threat
A prison
A poison nest
A chrome cassette
Division
The blue and white
A power strike
A girl you like
The daylight fades
You feel your way
Daguerreotype
The power of nature
And the oppression of strangers
The consequence of dread
A barbarous brain
A dominant strain
You'll never win this game
You're lost with no phone
And the home you made your own
Can never be paid for
The great in the small
The rise and the fall
And you come back for more
And the will to do no wrong
The ones that you lost
Abandoned or crossed
Will haunt you
But you stockpile more wealth
Congratulate yourself
A sense of proportion
An act of extortion
There's too much distortion
As you're approaching middle ages
You're up to here in debt
Insidious tech
You're up to your neck
Why don't you give it a rest?
A cold war threat
A prison
A poison nest
A chrome cassette
Division
The blue and white
A power strike
A girl you like
The daylight fades
You feel your way
Daguerreotype
And the oppression of strangers
The consequence of dread
A barbarous brain
A dominant strain
You'll never win this game
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Not gonna do a breakdown since I feel that the lyrics are meant to be smaller parts of a whole rather than have individual meaning.
Anyway, the only interpretation I can find in this is that it's the constant struggle of keeping up with society and eventual wearing down of the individual. If we don't conform and keep up, we feel lost and ostracized on top of the stress of just maintaining a lifestyle.
Lastly, seeing as how SW had explained in a video that each block on the cover of the album was a building block in a staircase, and this being the last song on the album (final step of the staircase) with the last lyric being "you'll never win this game", I can only guess that it's meant to imply that there is no "landing" at the top of the staircase, only staying stuck on the "last step".