it's kind of hard to tell what this song is about. on the surface it seems like the 'you' in the song is a rebel or misfit in his/her peer group or school. they are acting like someone they are not to keep up a normal appearance. this stanza makes it obvious.
yup I think so as well, but for me second verse has a totally different meaning:
soft soft silver bang like a banks hydraulics
the air it hangs its head and your cat has passed out
you polished off your thoughts in the banks hydraulics
soft soft silver bang when the vaults are all shut
for me the banks hydraulics are a metaphor for the weight of thoughts that you feel when you're depressed.
So for me the song is about a misfit, that may be just the person who has totally different view of the world from others that surround him. He has to be alone in his thoughts, because he's misunderstood. So he shuts off from his thoughts and puts on a fake smile, just to be with others.
The rephraise just means that he likes to be down I guess. And maybe that's what others don't understand, so he has to be alone with it.
my thoughts on this song,
it's kind of hard to tell what this song is about. on the surface it seems like the 'you' in the song is a rebel or misfit in his/her peer group or school. they are acting like someone they are not to keep up a normal appearance. this stanza makes it obvious.
yup I think so as well, but for me second verse has a totally different meaning:
soft soft silver bang like a banks hydraulics the air it hangs its head and your cat has passed out you polished off your thoughts in the banks hydraulics soft soft silver bang when the vaults are all shut
for me the banks hydraulics are a metaphor for the weight of thoughts that you feel when you're depressed.
So for me the song is about a misfit, that may be just the person who has totally different view of the world from others that surround him. He has to be alone in his thoughts, because he's misunderstood. So he shuts off from his thoughts and puts on a fake smile, just to be with others.
The rephraise just means that he likes to be down I guess. And maybe that's what others don't understand, so he has to be alone with it.