I think this song is about a man with a personality disorder, maybe he is schizophrenic- "the man of a thousand faces."
He could also be obsessive, as the lines:
"Good is better than perfect,
scrub till your fingers are bleeding."
As a schizophrenic can have many personalities, it is suggested here in the song that the man makes a "friendship" with the moon:
"And smiles at the moon like he knows her"
yet later in the song it says
"The moon to him was a stranger"
This song to me is the story of a man with a split personality who struggles to fit in with the rest of the world- "Or at least blend in with the pattern."
I believe you are wrong, because being socially inept is not a disorder. You cannot expect everyone to understand everyone all of the time, and this man clearly does not understand anybody, only because he did not understand himself and his moral compass; which is what the moon represents to him, not a friendship as you stipulate. Allow me to analyze the significance of the stanza:
I believe you are wrong, because being socially inept is not a disorder. You cannot expect everyone to understand everyone all of the time, and this man clearly does not understand anybody, only because he did not understand himself and his moral compass; which is what the moon represents to him, not a friendship as you stipulate. Allow me to analyze the significance of the stanza:
He used to go to his favorite bookstores
And rip out his favorite pages
And stuff 'em into his breast pockets
The moon, to him, was a stranger
He used to go to his favorite bookstores
And rip out his favorite pages
And stuff 'em into his breast pockets
The moon, to him, was a stranger
The words "used to" suggest that...
The words "used to" suggest that this was in his past when he would pilfer knowledge, and the reason the moon is included in this stanza and described as a "stranger", is because he knew not of his true self.
Personally, I believe this is the last song about Karl Projektorinki, while the extra two songs were the epilogue of his love affair from both sides of the argument.
I think this song is about a man with a personality disorder, maybe he is schizophrenic- "the man of a thousand faces."
He could also be obsessive, as the lines: "Good is better than perfect, scrub till your fingers are bleeding."
As a schizophrenic can have many personalities, it is suggested here in the song that the man makes a "friendship" with the moon: "And smiles at the moon like he knows her" yet later in the song it says "The moon to him was a stranger"
This song to me is the story of a man with a split personality who struggles to fit in with the rest of the world- "Or at least blend in with the pattern."
I believe you are wrong, because being socially inept is not a disorder. You cannot expect everyone to understand everyone all of the time, and this man clearly does not understand anybody, only because he did not understand himself and his moral compass; which is what the moon represents to him, not a friendship as you stipulate. Allow me to analyze the significance of the stanza:
I believe you are wrong, because being socially inept is not a disorder. You cannot expect everyone to understand everyone all of the time, and this man clearly does not understand anybody, only because he did not understand himself and his moral compass; which is what the moon represents to him, not a friendship as you stipulate. Allow me to analyze the significance of the stanza:
He used to go to his favorite bookstores And rip out his favorite pages And stuff 'em into his breast pockets The moon, to him, was a stranger
He used to go to his favorite bookstores And rip out his favorite pages And stuff 'em into his breast pockets The moon, to him, was a stranger
The words "used to" suggest that...
The words "used to" suggest that this was in his past when he would pilfer knowledge, and the reason the moon is included in this stanza and described as a "stranger", is because he knew not of his true self.
Personally, I believe this is the last song about Karl Projektorinki, while the extra two songs were the epilogue of his love affair from both sides of the argument.