This song is most peaceful, and it has taken me to wonderful places, but i think there is something else that phnxx barely touched upon-
i think he is making an analogy of the high of [drug of choice] to the calmness of night:
"Keeps us from the stark reality
...
When everything is bearable
And there in the still
All that you feel
Is tranquility"
This makes further sense if you consider these lines:
"There is a sound in the calm
Someone is coming to harm
I press my hands to my ears
It's easier here just to forget fear"
Notice that 'someone' is coming to harm, as the drug is taking him over, but he rather just 'forgets' about it, not that the danger has been eliminated.
Now fully on his trip, he sees visions and a "rose tinted" i.e. a perfect world.
I hate that many say a lot of songs are about drugs, but this one seems very obvious to me, as well as it is pretty much consensus that this album is about addiction/rehab.
This song is most peaceful, and it has taken me to wonderful places, but i think there is something else that phnxx barely touched upon-
i think he is making an analogy of the high of [drug of choice] to the calmness of night:
"Keeps us from the stark reality ... When everything is bearable And there in the still All that you feel Is tranquility"
This makes further sense if you consider these lines:
"There is a sound in the calm Someone is coming to harm I press my hands to my ears It's easier here just to forget fear"
Notice that 'someone' is coming to harm, as the drug is taking him over, but he rather just 'forgets' about it, not that the danger has been eliminated.
Now fully on his trip, he sees visions and a "rose tinted" i.e. a perfect world.
I hate that many say a lot of songs are about drugs, but this one seems very obvious to me, as well as it is pretty much consensus that this album is about addiction/rehab.