I think this song is about searching for a partner, or someone to be close to. It seems to me to be a comment on how that search is a hugely important factor of many people's lives and how some people don't really know what to do without a significant other, so when they break up with someone will soon go looking for someone else to fill the void ("we're empty inside") and will see getting someone to be with at all to be more important that who the person they're with is ("our desire to just find / Anyone"). Some people will even go to the extent of pretending to be someone they're not in order to attract a partner ("We don't like who we are but we pretend anyway / Because we're human as such / We long for someone to touch"), even though if you have to pretend to be someone else to attract that person the chances are you're not really suited to each other.
To me this song seems a rather bleak look at society's sometimes quite shallow attitudes towards finding a partner and how shallow relationships ("A little death* to escape") are used to try and 'cure' a deeper sense of loneliness ("Is there anybody out there?").
*'little death' being a phrase meaning orgasm, in case anyone didn't know.
I think this song is about searching for a partner, or someone to be close to. It seems to me to be a comment on how that search is a hugely important factor of many people's lives and how some people don't really know what to do without a significant other, so when they break up with someone will soon go looking for someone else to fill the void ("we're empty inside") and will see getting someone to be with at all to be more important that who the person they're with is ("our desire to just find / Anyone"). Some people will even go to the extent of pretending to be someone they're not in order to attract a partner ("We don't like who we are but we pretend anyway / Because we're human as such / We long for someone to touch"), even though if you have to pretend to be someone else to attract that person the chances are you're not really suited to each other.
To me this song seems a rather bleak look at society's sometimes quite shallow attitudes towards finding a partner and how shallow relationships ("A little death* to escape") are used to try and 'cure' a deeper sense of loneliness ("Is there anybody out there?").
*'little death' being a phrase meaning orgasm, in case anyone didn't know.