I think you guys are a bit too quick to lump all these lyrics into the 'drug' category. This song is all Hamlet, and I'm sure it has personal implications for the singer, Marcus Congleton.
"There's still life in the heart." - Hamlet treats Ophelia like shit in the play, but once he finds out about her death, his true loving feelings come out.
"It's easier in the soft light of the shimmery, shadow windows" - The whole 'to be or not to be' soliloqy is about the advantages of suicide (easyness), and Ophelia dies by drowning herself. Shimmery shadow windows isn't a drug reference, it's a metaphor for water.
"I'm late for hundreds of things, the walls are thin but I can't reach through them" - Hamlet is a busy guy in this play. Lots of shit on his to do list, but he's slow, always wasting time talking to himself. His major goal, kill the king, is something he should be able to do easily, but he wastes his opportunities. The walls are thin. He can easily reach through them, but he doesn't. He procrastinates and acts crazy ("chasing dragons down the street").
If you read the play, everything else is obvious. Hamlet has 4 or 5 soliloquies, so this guy is obviously "seething from the inside"
This is a greatly written song. Admirable too. Marcus knows his shit, and he write's a hell of a song to put himself in the shoes of Hamlet. Still, I see absolutley no drug references.
I think you guys are a bit too quick to lump all these lyrics into the 'drug' category. This song is all Hamlet, and I'm sure it has personal implications for the singer, Marcus Congleton.
"There's still life in the heart." - Hamlet treats Ophelia like shit in the play, but once he finds out about her death, his true loving feelings come out.
"It's easier in the soft light of the shimmery, shadow windows" - The whole 'to be or not to be' soliloqy is about the advantages of suicide (easyness), and Ophelia dies by drowning herself. Shimmery shadow windows isn't a drug reference, it's a metaphor for water.
"I'm late for hundreds of things, the walls are thin but I can't reach through them" - Hamlet is a busy guy in this play. Lots of shit on his to do list, but he's slow, always wasting time talking to himself. His major goal, kill the king, is something he should be able to do easily, but he wastes his opportunities. The walls are thin. He can easily reach through them, but he doesn't. He procrastinates and acts crazy ("chasing dragons down the street"). If you read the play, everything else is obvious. Hamlet has 4 or 5 soliloquies, so this guy is obviously "seething from the inside"
This is a greatly written song. Admirable too. Marcus knows his shit, and he write's a hell of a song to put himself in the shoes of Hamlet. Still, I see absolutley no drug references.