In an interview somewhere Ronan said that he got the idea for this song while in a 50's diner (I think) and the 'million points of light' refers to the view of a city at night.
I think he's saying that we're basing our values on trivial and futile things, and that we think that for some reason we're exempt from the laws of nature. Heh. The perfect metaphor for this is from a book I read... In the same way that a man wearing a coat of feathers, flapping his arms as he jumps off a cliff is flying and defying the laws of aerodynamics because, "So far so good," we believe that Civilization is the "best" way for humanity to live based on the fact that despite all the shit we've killed, we're still around. Not necessarily for long, though...
In an interview somewhere Ronan said that he got the idea for this song while in a 50's diner (I think) and the 'million points of light' refers to the view of a city at night.
I think he's saying that we're basing our values on trivial and futile things, and that we think that for some reason we're exempt from the laws of nature. Heh. The perfect metaphor for this is from a book I read... In the same way that a man wearing a coat of feathers, flapping his arms as he jumps off a cliff is flying and defying the laws of aerodynamics because, "So far so good," we believe that Civilization is the "best" way for humanity to live based on the fact that despite all the shit we've killed, we're still around. Not necessarily for long, though...