I think this song is about a writer's frustration, feeling that nothing he is doing is worthy enough to truly encapture something about which he is passionate. It speaks about the perils of being viewed as brilliant and having to live up to those expectations; a lesser person, someone who does not have that tag can have the same kind of frustration and not have really suffer for it. The quote "Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain" comes from Friedirch Schiller's play "The Maid of Orleans," a romanticized tale of Joan of Arc and the Siege at Orlenas. Considering how young the band was when a lot of these songs were written, I can see them of having to live up to high expectations; the fact that the Schiller quote is used in the song (though the quote is famous, but the context shows true understanding of having to have read the passage) should be evidence of this.
I think this song is about a writer's frustration, feeling that nothing he is doing is worthy enough to truly encapture something about which he is passionate. It speaks about the perils of being viewed as brilliant and having to live up to those expectations; a lesser person, someone who does not have that tag can have the same kind of frustration and not have really suffer for it. The quote "Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain" comes from Friedirch Schiller's play "The Maid of Orleans," a romanticized tale of Joan of Arc and the Siege at Orlenas. Considering how young the band was when a lot of these songs were written, I can see them of having to live up to high expectations; the fact that the Schiller quote is used in the song (though the quote is famous, but the context shows true understanding of having to have read the passage) should be evidence of this.