I always thought this song was about how people nowadays are just feeling what society tells them to, automatically. "automatic guns for automatic boys" says that people are violent without thinking just because they've been brainwashed to think it's right. "everything keeps the right melody i've got a couple of killing machines" is saying that everything is clockwork and when people go off to fight in wars new people will come and take their places, hot off the assembly line. All of this relates to "this is the end of the world as it seems" because with the world becoming based on action and not thoughts life loses meaning. oh and as for the "shrink wrap" thing it's saying that love has become impersonal and available like packaged foods. That's what i got from this... Tell me what you think.
I always thought this song was about how people nowadays are just feeling what society tells them to, automatically. "automatic guns for automatic boys" says that people are violent without thinking just because they've been brainwashed to think it's right. "everything keeps the right melody i've got a couple of killing machines" is saying that everything is clockwork and when people go off to fight in wars new people will come and take their places, hot off the assembly line. All of this relates to "this is the end of the world as it seems" because with the world becoming based on action and not thoughts life loses meaning. oh and as for the "shrink wrap" thing it's saying that love has become impersonal and available like packaged foods. That's what i got from this... Tell me what you think.