Absent Elements Lyrics

Lyric discussion by nicolae88 

Cover art for Absent Elements lyrics by Finger Eleven

I think this song is about people and their way of basically letting material things rule them. The absent elements would be non material things, and without these, its an emptiness. You could also say that this song is about people being blind to the worst things in life, and believing its all a cakewalk. They build their comfortable defense against the world, and the bad things within it, and the bad things are absent elements to them.