@pinder totally agree, but did you ever consider that the girl is the narrator, while the guy she loves spends all his time on a computer (the stone)?
that possibility has an interesting correlation to the section "if stones could dream, they'd dream of being laid side by side, piece by piece and turned into a castle for some towering queen they're unable to know"
think of the internet (the castle), all the cold and emotionally distant men connecting to it, having no comprehension of what it really is or who they're serving by attaching themselves to it (towering queen, AI?). while...
@pinder totally agree, but did you ever consider that the girl is the narrator, while the guy she loves spends all his time on a computer (the stone)?
that possibility has an interesting correlation to the section "if stones could dream, they'd dream of being laid side by side, piece by piece and turned into a castle for some towering queen they're unable to know"
think of the internet (the castle), all the cold and emotionally distant men connecting to it, having no comprehension of what it really is or who they're serving by attaching themselves to it (towering queen, AI?). while the real love that's right in front of them laments that they are giving their attention to an inanimate object (the stone) and becoming stones in the process.
white veins (wires), hard grey (machines in general but typical computer colour/texture), heavy weight (the impact on the psyche of all the obscenity on the internet that they consume, consciously detaching from it while subconsciously bearing a heavy weight), clumsy shape (the endless stream of logos and ads and all sorts of images that they absorb uncritically/clumsily).
i think this song has a lot to do with how people - especially men - get so much of their emotional "nourishment" from computers nowadays, and is narrated by someone (likely a woman) who wants their own lover to just log off and take in the beauty of the world around them, but their deep misery is soothed by the world on the screen just enough to keep them hooked and not have to face what makes them miserable.
about a guy who's closed off and the girl that loves him
@pinder totally agree, but did you ever consider that the girl is the narrator, while the guy she loves spends all his time on a computer (the stone)? that possibility has an interesting correlation to the section "if stones could dream, they'd dream of being laid side by side, piece by piece and turned into a castle for some towering queen they're unable to know" think of the internet (the castle), all the cold and emotionally distant men connecting to it, having no comprehension of what it really is or who they're serving by attaching themselves to it (towering queen, AI?). while...
@pinder totally agree, but did you ever consider that the girl is the narrator, while the guy she loves spends all his time on a computer (the stone)? that possibility has an interesting correlation to the section "if stones could dream, they'd dream of being laid side by side, piece by piece and turned into a castle for some towering queen they're unable to know" think of the internet (the castle), all the cold and emotionally distant men connecting to it, having no comprehension of what it really is or who they're serving by attaching themselves to it (towering queen, AI?). while the real love that's right in front of them laments that they are giving their attention to an inanimate object (the stone) and becoming stones in the process. white veins (wires), hard grey (machines in general but typical computer colour/texture), heavy weight (the impact on the psyche of all the obscenity on the internet that they consume, consciously detaching from it while subconsciously bearing a heavy weight), clumsy shape (the endless stream of logos and ads and all sorts of images that they absorb uncritically/clumsily).
i think this song has a lot to do with how people - especially men - get so much of their emotional "nourishment" from computers nowadays, and is narrated by someone (likely a woman) who wants their own lover to just log off and take in the beauty of the world around them, but their deep misery is soothed by the world on the screen just enough to keep them hooked and not have to face what makes them miserable.