I have to agree slightly with you Entwined. This is my interpretation anyway…
It seems to me (one of Chis' many more melancholy scribblings) to be a comment on inevitability and perpetual nature of solitude and life's one promise of (or Chris' "wish"/craving for) death, shown through his constant reference to his 'death wish'.
Unlike the average ‘machine’, he sees himself as one of a few ‘misfits’ whose truthful ‘pure expression’ leaves them susceptible to the ‘death wish’ as they see past the shallow and pointless disposition of life. ‘All our accessorise’ and ‘The whole world's insanities/The bleeding hearts and tragedies’ fail to distract him from the reality of the inevitable.
The key focus, the question ‘Are we pretending?’ relates to the second to last verse where he acknowledges his escape from this feeling through the subject of 'silver skin' who 'reminds me/That you're worth it.' Implying that the key message to his lover is that he ‘like(s) pretending’ with her momentarily and she gives him a fleeting satisfaction with life.
I have to agree slightly with you Entwined. This is my interpretation anyway…
It seems to me (one of Chis' many more melancholy scribblings) to be a comment on inevitability and perpetual nature of solitude and life's one promise of (or Chris' "wish"/craving for) death, shown through his constant reference to his 'death wish'.
Unlike the average ‘machine’, he sees himself as one of a few ‘misfits’ whose truthful ‘pure expression’ leaves them susceptible to the ‘death wish’ as they see past the shallow and pointless disposition of life. ‘All our accessorise’ and ‘The whole world's insanities/The bleeding hearts and tragedies’ fail to distract him from the reality of the inevitable.
The key focus, the question ‘Are we pretending?’ relates to the second to last verse where he acknowledges his escape from this feeling through the subject of 'silver skin' who 'reminds me/That you're worth it.' Implying that the key message to his lover is that he ‘like(s) pretending’ with her momentarily and she gives him a fleeting satisfaction with life.