That's When The Party Started Lyrics

Lyric discussion by sheetmusicnow 

Cover art for That's When The Party Started lyrics by Dismemberment Plan, The

I'm perplexed as well... I'm thinking it's about either aliens or drugs... or schizophrenia? Aliens might work - the figure he saw at night could have been a sleep paralysis apparation, or not, and the "light in the east" could have been a ufo... Otherwise the song could just be refering to the trips and hallucinations people experience when they "party", and perhaps the fourteen foot tall figure represents something... maybe a larger-than-life self, or the personification of addcition...?

I think the chorus ("and if I saw it, maybe it's so") alludes to "seeing is believing", though I can't tell whether it could be mocking or not... But this is a tough one.