"If you're keeping score, then you are bound to win." If you are the only one playing, then you comprise all three parties: the score-keeper and the two competing sides. Clearly this is about being entirely alone.
"A birds eye view of a burning bridge." Apparently the person in the song has isolated himself, he has burned his bridge to company.
"You've gone through ghost towns set on pause, hoping the risk was worth the cause." The ghost towns could be old places that the person used to enjoy with others, or they could also be new places that still feel devoid of all humanity.
"Sound off the false alarm." The person apparently cries 'wolf' to himself frequently. He thinks he has found a companion who is worth the time to be friends with, a kindred spirit. But it is just a false alarm.
"but i make my own colleague from wood and from ivory, and reap the rewards of proximity. i will assemble my equal from what i like and require. and gather whats left of the company"
This chorus is makes it evident that companion this person has found is not a companion at all. It's a very dubious relationship, because the person has taken all of the things that he wants to be and all of the things that he loves about himself and attributed them to the 'false alarm' companion. He is making the mistake of trying to find himself instead of another.
"It smells like disaster, it looks like a trap." It smells like disaster, because it is. This person will be devastated to find that his false companion is not at all like the mental construction the person has attributed to the companion. It's like when you are dating someone that you really thought was interesting, then you realize that all the interesting things about that person were actually just interesting things about yourself that you chose to see in the other person.
"So go by the way side and never look back" Looks like the person is only going to get lonelier.
"If you could spare me forty winks" I have no idea on this line.
"while you cry wolf, and i count sheep" See my previous 'cry wolf' statement. I think the counting sheep refers to the fact that the most common way to deal with loneliness is to sleep it away.
"what good are ghosts in kevlar vests with backbones like a jellyfish" Indeed, such ghost would have all the worst parts of human beings and none of the good parts. This is how the person in the song views all the people he has met. How dismal.
"Stomp on your land again"
"If you're keeping score then you're bound to win, a bird's eye view of the main event"
This song is about being alone, very alone.
"If you're keeping score, then you are bound to win." If you are the only one playing, then you comprise all three parties: the score-keeper and the two competing sides. Clearly this is about being entirely alone.
"A birds eye view of a burning bridge." Apparently the person in the song has isolated himself, he has burned his bridge to company.
"You've gone through ghost towns set on pause, hoping the risk was worth the cause." The ghost towns could be old places that the person used to enjoy with others, or they could also be new places that still feel devoid of all humanity.
"Sound off the false alarm." The person apparently cries 'wolf' to himself frequently. He thinks he has found a companion who is worth the time to be friends with, a kindred spirit. But it is just a false alarm.
"but i make my own colleague from wood and from ivory, and reap the rewards of proximity. i will assemble my equal from what i like and require. and gather whats left of the company"
This chorus is makes it evident that companion this person has found is not a companion at all. It's a very dubious relationship, because the person has taken all of the things that he wants to be and all of the things that he loves about himself and attributed them to the 'false alarm' companion. He is making the mistake of trying to find himself instead of another.
"It smells like disaster, it looks like a trap." It smells like disaster, because it is. This person will be devastated to find that his false companion is not at all like the mental construction the person has attributed to the companion. It's like when you are dating someone that you really thought was interesting, then you realize that all the interesting things about that person were actually just interesting things about yourself that you chose to see in the other person.
"So go by the way side and never look back" Looks like the person is only going to get lonelier.
"If you could spare me forty winks" I have no idea on this line.
"while you cry wolf, and i count sheep" See my previous 'cry wolf' statement. I think the counting sheep refers to the fact that the most common way to deal with loneliness is to sleep it away.
"what good are ghosts in kevlar vests with backbones like a jellyfish" Indeed, such ghost would have all the worst parts of human beings and none of the good parts. This is how the person in the song views all the people he has met. How dismal.
"Stomp on your land again" "If you're keeping score then you're bound to win, a bird's eye view of the main event"
I'm not sure about these last two lines.