I always figured that man was in the car with woman, but they never do mention WHERE he is, so Pheine may be on to something. Is he sleeping in the apartment house, or is his dream in an apartment?
I thought the latter. The punctuation doesn't make anything any more clear.
The music may be a large part of the song, according to the way I'm leaning. Being awake vs. subconsiousness. When it goes into the Man Dreaming chorus, the music becomes much "happier" (for lack of a better word). Compare to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields," which has a similar theme to it, i.e. reality vs. not.
What's the importance of dreaming of knocking on doors in an apartment building? Well, the woman's perception is that there's NOTHING, NO ONE, around. Just their car, forever rolling away into nowhere. In an apartment house, there's all kinds of people stacked right on top of each other, and apartment houses are usually in suburbs, cities-- highly populated areas.
In our own subconsious, we're comfortable. We don't need to live out of a suitcase. We don't need a map because we know where we are and where we're going. We aren't limited to looking forward in our minds. We aren't (or shouldn't be) afraid of our pasts.
Perhaps Pheine's thoughts and mine are interchangeable. Maybe Woman did leave Man in his apartment and he doesn't know why.
It's rather vauge, and maybe I'm trying to pull too much out of it.
I used to think the Man in the car for a good while, but it is not mentioned in the song anywhere. Instead, the man wakes up and, finding his woman gone, walking and knocking on doors, looking for her. "man sleeping ... in a large apartment house" only made sense after I accepted this interpretation.
I used to think the Man in the car for a good while, but it is not mentioned in the song anywhere. Instead, the man wakes up and, finding his woman gone, walking and knocking on doors, looking for her. "man sleeping ... in a large apartment house" only made sense after I accepted this interpretation.
The main picture describes the solemn feeling of the woman on a journey "a little metal box under the stars"; although E cleverly never uses the word "alone" he describes it so well. I think thinking the man is in the car is...
The main picture describes the solemn feeling of the woman on a journey "a little metal box under the stars"; although E cleverly never uses the word "alone" he describes it so well. I think thinking the man is in the car is a trap he has set up deliberately in the chorus "woman driving man sleeping".
Also "there is no radio to play" to me suggests something about the nature of running away (and not about the imposed silence of a sleeping passenger). Like she took an old car and didn't really prepare for the journey.
To me, it makes a lot more sense if man is in bed, woman in car; each of them get's their own piece section and only in the chorus the relationship is mentioned by what each of them does.
Anything that would be common between them (such as man searching for woman, woman taking toll money from his purse, him reading the map etc.) is very carefully avoided.
I always figured that man was in the car with woman, but they never do mention WHERE he is, so Pheine may be on to something. Is he sleeping in the apartment house, or is his dream in an apartment? I thought the latter. The punctuation doesn't make anything any more clear.
The music may be a large part of the song, according to the way I'm leaning. Being awake vs. subconsiousness. When it goes into the Man Dreaming chorus, the music becomes much "happier" (for lack of a better word). Compare to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields," which has a similar theme to it, i.e. reality vs. not.
What's the importance of dreaming of knocking on doors in an apartment building? Well, the woman's perception is that there's NOTHING, NO ONE, around. Just their car, forever rolling away into nowhere. In an apartment house, there's all kinds of people stacked right on top of each other, and apartment houses are usually in suburbs, cities-- highly populated areas.
In our own subconsious, we're comfortable. We don't need to live out of a suitcase. We don't need a map because we know where we are and where we're going. We aren't limited to looking forward in our minds. We aren't (or shouldn't be) afraid of our pasts.
Perhaps Pheine's thoughts and mine are interchangeable. Maybe Woman did leave Man in his apartment and he doesn't know why.
It's rather vauge, and maybe I'm trying to pull too much out of it.
one of my favorites on Souljacker.
Peace.
I used to think the Man in the car for a good while, but it is not mentioned in the song anywhere. Instead, the man wakes up and, finding his woman gone, walking and knocking on doors, looking for her. "man sleeping ... in a large apartment house" only made sense after I accepted this interpretation.
I used to think the Man in the car for a good while, but it is not mentioned in the song anywhere. Instead, the man wakes up and, finding his woman gone, walking and knocking on doors, looking for her. "man sleeping ... in a large apartment house" only made sense after I accepted this interpretation.
The main picture describes the solemn feeling of the woman on a journey "a little metal box under the stars"; although E cleverly never uses the word "alone" he describes it so well. I think thinking the man is in the car is...
The main picture describes the solemn feeling of the woman on a journey "a little metal box under the stars"; although E cleverly never uses the word "alone" he describes it so well. I think thinking the man is in the car is a trap he has set up deliberately in the chorus "woman driving man sleeping".
Also "there is no radio to play" to me suggests something about the nature of running away (and not about the imposed silence of a sleeping passenger). Like she took an old car and didn't really prepare for the journey.
To me, it makes a lot more sense if man is in bed, woman in car; each of them get's their own piece section and only in the chorus the relationship is mentioned by what each of them does.
Anything that would be common between them (such as man searching for woman, woman taking toll money from his purse, him reading the map etc.) is very carefully avoided.