for me, based on the video (which is amazing too), this song is about realizing money doesnt make you happy...the story as i see it is this:
the guy was a hippie or something like that, but later "got a life", got a nice well paid job and all, leaving his past friends (or just the girlfirend...). now he realizes...its just wont work. the song is about the realizing part.
in more detail, this guy is living on the "supposed golden path", meaning the american dream kind of thing. then he is comfronted by something, a "mysterious spectre", which makes him think bout live and death ("pointed to the graveyard"..) and that kind of stuff. now, he is confused, he sees a "powerful demon force", meaning he realizes the negatives in his livestyle. and it makes him turn to religion. now...i dont know whether the "supposed golden path" in the 3rd part is still the same, or a "new", think your favorite new age or religious stuff :). anyway, he comes to some kind of conclusion, and is freed, reuniting with the past. the happy end.
and i absolutely love this song, cuz it makes me cry to think about its meaning...
Yeah, that was pretty much my idea about the song. The "Golden Path" is the course of his life, and things keep getting in the way of his dreams - personified in the song as various monsters and in the music video as office appliances. Basically, he's become a person he never wanted to be, hence "help me Lord, I've found myself in some kind of Hell". In the end, he simply stops caring about what other people think and decides to be what he wants to be, in the process undoing his "spiritual death" and finding the "shining answer...
Yeah, that was pretty much my idea about the song. The "Golden Path" is the course of his life, and things keep getting in the way of his dreams - personified in the song as various monsters and in the music video as office appliances. Basically, he's become a person he never wanted to be, hence "help me Lord, I've found myself in some kind of Hell". In the end, he simply stops caring about what other people think and decides to be what he wants to be, in the process undoing his "spiritual death" and finding the "shining answer from the womb". The repeated line at the end may be related to some love he had to abandon to conform to society (maybe he was a former hippie like the above comment suggests?).
for me, based on the video (which is amazing too), this song is about realizing money doesnt make you happy...the story as i see it is this: the guy was a hippie or something like that, but later "got a life", got a nice well paid job and all, leaving his past friends (or just the girlfirend...). now he realizes...its just wont work. the song is about the realizing part.
in more detail, this guy is living on the "supposed golden path", meaning the american dream kind of thing. then he is comfronted by something, a "mysterious spectre", which makes him think bout live and death ("pointed to the graveyard"..) and that kind of stuff. now, he is confused, he sees a "powerful demon force", meaning he realizes the negatives in his livestyle. and it makes him turn to religion. now...i dont know whether the "supposed golden path" in the 3rd part is still the same, or a "new", think your favorite new age or religious stuff :). anyway, he comes to some kind of conclusion, and is freed, reuniting with the past. the happy end.
and i absolutely love this song, cuz it makes me cry to think about its meaning...
Yeah, that was pretty much my idea about the song. The "Golden Path" is the course of his life, and things keep getting in the way of his dreams - personified in the song as various monsters and in the music video as office appliances. Basically, he's become a person he never wanted to be, hence "help me Lord, I've found myself in some kind of Hell". In the end, he simply stops caring about what other people think and decides to be what he wants to be, in the process undoing his "spiritual death" and finding the "shining answer...
Yeah, that was pretty much my idea about the song. The "Golden Path" is the course of his life, and things keep getting in the way of his dreams - personified in the song as various monsters and in the music video as office appliances. Basically, he's become a person he never wanted to be, hence "help me Lord, I've found myself in some kind of Hell". In the end, he simply stops caring about what other people think and decides to be what he wants to be, in the process undoing his "spiritual death" and finding the "shining answer from the womb". The repeated line at the end may be related to some love he had to abandon to conform to society (maybe he was a former hippie like the above comment suggests?).