More details: Gira had recently read a Hubert Selby Jr. story of the same title involving a man trapped in a cell, unaware of how he got there. There is a hole in the locked door of the room to look through. He heres a sound coming closer and closer. He then looks through the hole and... The reader never is told what he sees. Gira mixed that story with his somewhat insane mother's emotional self-isolation. Notice how the music becomes more and more introspective while still subtly rising. And, in live versions, Gira, before reciting the final words, screams, just like the man who saw something out there...
More details: Gira had recently read a Hubert Selby Jr. story of the same title involving a man trapped in a cell, unaware of how he got there. There is a hole in the locked door of the room to look through. He heres a sound coming closer and closer. He then looks through the hole and... The reader never is told what he sees. Gira mixed that story with his somewhat insane mother's emotional self-isolation. Notice how the music becomes more and more introspective while still subtly rising. And, in live versions, Gira, before reciting the final words, screams, just like the man who saw something out there...