"Dancers" seems to continue the theme of powerlessness and the insignificant speck on the universe known as humanity as found in a song like "Straws Pulled at Random." This time around, however, Haake exposes the lie we have come to believe – that we are somehow in control. In actuality, we dance to the very system that suppresses us; we lull ourselves into complacency as we gleefully accept the great untruth – that we actually matter. The cosmic ironies that ooze from the last stanza are especially ominous.
"Dancers" seems to continue the theme of powerlessness and the insignificant speck on the universe known as humanity as found in a song like "Straws Pulled at Random." This time around, however, Haake exposes the lie we have come to believe – that we are somehow in control. In actuality, we dance to the very system that suppresses us; we lull ourselves into complacency as we gleefully accept the great untruth – that we actually matter. The cosmic ironies that ooze from the last stanza are especially ominous.
It's a bleak Meshuggah song – go figure.