The rest of the album this song was on (The Science Of Things) had a very technological/scientific theme. "Jesus Online", "Letting The Cables Sleep", "The Chemicals Between Us" - so I think this song might be about something similar.
I think it's about the aftermath of a nuclear war. A man inhabiting a fallout shelter, forty miles from the site of a nuclear blast. Tonally, it's very bleak and minimalistic - suggests a feeling of desolation, following the destruction of most of the world.
Lyrically - the song suggests the loss of hope and optimism. "No people to be saved" - nearly everyone perished in the nuclear apocalypse. As someone earlier suggested, "The pleasure's just begun" sounds sarcastic - there is no pleasure in the survivor's life.
Again, someone already mentioned the correlation between "In our coats between the layers" and anti-radiation suits. "Wash my skin of all the hate" could correspond to radioactive fallout.
A nuclear war could possibly cause the eventual extinction of mankind. Earlier reviewers interpreted this song as being about facing death - nuclear apocalypse would result in not only our own personal deaths, but the death of the entire human race. Correlation?
The rest of the album this song was on (The Science Of Things) had a very technological/scientific theme. "Jesus Online", "Letting The Cables Sleep", "The Chemicals Between Us" - so I think this song might be about something similar.
I think it's about the aftermath of a nuclear war. A man inhabiting a fallout shelter, forty miles from the site of a nuclear blast. Tonally, it's very bleak and minimalistic - suggests a feeling of desolation, following the destruction of most of the world.
Lyrically - the song suggests the loss of hope and optimism. "No people to be saved" - nearly everyone perished in the nuclear apocalypse. As someone earlier suggested, "The pleasure's just begun" sounds sarcastic - there is no pleasure in the survivor's life.
Again, someone already mentioned the correlation between "In our coats between the layers" and anti-radiation suits. "Wash my skin of all the hate" could correspond to radioactive fallout.
A nuclear war could possibly cause the eventual extinction of mankind. Earlier reviewers interpreted this song as being about facing death - nuclear apocalypse would result in not only our own personal deaths, but the death of the entire human race. Correlation?