to me this song is all about consumerism, and how people tend to sort of blend in and do all the same things as the rest of society, even if they don't really want to. "light another candle," meaning mourn whatever the media says to mourn. then everybody still celebrating christmas, even if they're not in anyway religious, because it's become a consumer holiday. everybody worried about the same material stuff, shopping, clothes, furniture, cars. cut the kids in half is a reference to making more identical consumer clones, because they're identical to their predecessor, so it's like they've just been split in two and then regrown into two identical beings. the last verse (the mumbled bits from the live shows) is talking about how everybody's functioning, but nobody's thinking about what they're doing. also about how everyone wants to blend in, but nobody wants to feel like they're just clones or slaves to the media. everybody wants to...nobody wants to be a slave.
to me this song is all about consumerism, and how people tend to sort of blend in and do all the same things as the rest of society, even if they don't really want to. "light another candle," meaning mourn whatever the media says to mourn. then everybody still celebrating christmas, even if they're not in anyway religious, because it's become a consumer holiday. everybody worried about the same material stuff, shopping, clothes, furniture, cars. cut the kids in half is a reference to making more identical consumer clones, because they're identical to their predecessor, so it's like they've just been split in two and then regrown into two identical beings. the last verse (the mumbled bits from the live shows) is talking about how everybody's functioning, but nobody's thinking about what they're doing. also about how everyone wants to blend in, but nobody wants to feel like they're just clones or slaves to the media. everybody wants to...nobody wants to be a slave.