"Like how in church you read about it and talk through priests and finally after so long you get to see him"
If you've seen the album you'll find this ..around... The Earth Will Shake.
Tin Cans and Strings is a method of communication (think tin cans...with strings.. sound travelling along the string). Dustin is singing about inmates imprisoned in a cell, only having one method of communication.. through tin cans and strings.
The inmates have obviously never seen each other... it's dark... or their cells aren't facing each other? "Could it be you're really here?" The two ppl.. singer and subject.. have talked/communicated through tin cans and straws, but have never seen each other , being imprisoned in their cells, noeing only the sound of each other's voice. This could be a metaphor for someone finally finding some kind of truth in something (as is with other thrice songs..), the subject being hte truth/knowledge, hte singer being hte seeker, the seeker finally finding the thing he's been looking for all these years (but has actually never come to grasp until "Could it be you're really here?", until his eyes "open".)
However. he finds.. perhaps... this knowledge.. to be disappointing? "'Cause my eyes are open, and everything still moves in slow-motion". Everything still moves in slow-motion, he is disappointed that everything is the same - slow, dull. I'll talk about hte song another time... but one thing that's for sure is that it's not a song about God, but about humanity, revelation, the finding of some metaphysical truth.
Not about God no..
"Like how in church you read about it and talk through priests and finally after so long you get to see him"
If you've seen the album you'll find this ..around... The Earth Will Shake.
Tin Cans and Strings is a method of communication (think tin cans...with strings.. sound travelling along the string). Dustin is singing about inmates imprisoned in a cell, only having one method of communication.. through tin cans and strings.
The inmates have obviously never seen each other... it's dark... or their cells aren't facing each other? "Could it be you're really here?" The two ppl.. singer and subject.. have talked/communicated through tin cans and straws, but have never seen each other , being imprisoned in their cells, noeing only the sound of each other's voice. This could be a metaphor for someone finally finding some kind of truth in something (as is with other thrice songs..), the subject being hte truth/knowledge, hte singer being hte seeker, the seeker finally finding the thing he's been looking for all these years (but has actually never come to grasp until "Could it be you're really here?", until his eyes "open".)
However. he finds.. perhaps... this knowledge.. to be disappointing? "'Cause my eyes are open, and everything still moves in slow-motion". Everything still moves in slow-motion, he is disappointed that everything is the same - slow, dull. I'll talk about hte song another time... but one thing that's for sure is that it's not a song about God, but about humanity, revelation, the finding of some metaphysical truth.