"Frame by frame we begin to change
Skeletons with robot brains"
That line always stood out to me. I think it's sort of a rejection of the traditional idea of "growing up." Maybe someone who isn't quite an adult yet but will be in a few years (maybe around 18, my age), notices, in all the adults around them, that as people become more "mature" and place more value in being stable, they lose a lot of their passion, and become hollowed out and automated. They use the analogy of skeletons with robot brains to describe these people, and reject the series of slow changes that leads to a conventional adulthood, choosing to remain passionate, idealistic, and youthful.
Of course, there's probably a whole other set of meanings in this song. I think "comfort is only skin deep" is about how we reassure ourselves, but we can never really escape thoughts of things like death, nuclear war, if we have souls, the end of the world... All that really deep, dark primal stuff.
"Frame by frame we begin to change Skeletons with robot brains"
That line always stood out to me. I think it's sort of a rejection of the traditional idea of "growing up." Maybe someone who isn't quite an adult yet but will be in a few years (maybe around 18, my age), notices, in all the adults around them, that as people become more "mature" and place more value in being stable, they lose a lot of their passion, and become hollowed out and automated. They use the analogy of skeletons with robot brains to describe these people, and reject the series of slow changes that leads to a conventional adulthood, choosing to remain passionate, idealistic, and youthful.
Of course, there's probably a whole other set of meanings in this song. I think "comfort is only skin deep" is about how we reassure ourselves, but we can never really escape thoughts of things like death, nuclear war, if we have souls, the end of the world... All that really deep, dark primal stuff.