I was listening to this yesterday, and suddenly it occurred to me that it might be about drugs - specifically, someone who's taken lots of them in the past, but is trying to become clean, and Thom is trying to encourage him to do so.
Hence no more "going to the dark side", "flying saucer eyes", "falling down a wormhole", "leaky holes in your brain", all of which are pretty good descriptions of being on drugs.
"No more talk of the old days" is a plea not to think back nostalgically to the days of drug use - instead, optimistically, "it's time for something great". "i want you to get out" - self-explanatory.
And the title, Atoms for Peace - it's like the atoms that make up the person's body have had anough of being abused through drug use, and are going on a march in protest - enough, no more, peace!
I was listening to this yesterday, and suddenly it occurred to me that it might be about drugs - specifically, someone who's taken lots of them in the past, but is trying to become clean, and Thom is trying to encourage him to do so.
Hence no more "going to the dark side", "flying saucer eyes", "falling down a wormhole", "leaky holes in your brain", all of which are pretty good descriptions of being on drugs.
"No more talk of the old days" is a plea not to think back nostalgically to the days of drug use - instead, optimistically, "it's time for something great". "i want you to get out" - self-explanatory.
And the title, Atoms for Peace - it's like the atoms that make up the person's body have had anough of being abused through drug use, and are going on a march in protest - enough, no more, peace!