Some of these lyrics are way off: the first line should be "Violence, paints the sky." Am I alone in thinking that this song is about the World Trade Center attack? I hadn't really ever thought about it before watching the video, where someone (presumably Fischer or Spooner?) is talking about it, being unable to look away. The first line fits in with that interpretation, and if the rest of the song excessively vague, lines like "You smashed the hornets' nest/They swarm around inside/Hope to seek revenge" make sense in a particularly disturbing way. I think it's got to do with watching the events in real time and giving yourself up to the confusion, the "fearsome joy" that's like watching a movie right in front of you, except hundreds of people are really dying.
Some of these lyrics are way off: the first line should be "Violence, paints the sky." Am I alone in thinking that this song is about the World Trade Center attack? I hadn't really ever thought about it before watching the video, where someone (presumably Fischer or Spooner?) is talking about it, being unable to look away. The first line fits in with that interpretation, and if the rest of the song excessively vague, lines like "You smashed the hornets' nest/They swarm around inside/Hope to seek revenge" make sense in a particularly disturbing way. I think it's got to do with watching the events in real time and giving yourself up to the confusion, the "fearsome joy" that's like watching a movie right in front of you, except hundreds of people are really dying.