I think each stanza represents something different, but all tied together by one word,
First: being scared because you can't see where your life is going, or if it's going to turn out okay, and feeling a bit helpless.
Second: feeling depressed and saddened by a lot of things around you; you're not laughing at jokes, you see houses as tombstones, which I absolutely love the imagery that the people buried in their "houses" are all just as dead as you feel. You feel helpless knowing that now matter how many things change in your life, you still feel the same way.
Third: the election, obviously. though I really don't think SLR is picking sides. I think they're trying to represent that, like in one of the other new songs, that there is a lot of empathy going on regarding this year's election. And that there are many voters who are not educating themselves enough on both of the candidates and their veeps to be able to wisely choose a candidate that is right for them. We're deer in headlights; blind. Knowing we want change, we want to be helped, we want to be saved, we want our past resolved. Yet we're frozen; depressed; helpless.
I think each stanza represents something different, but all tied together by one word, First: being scared because you can't see where your life is going, or if it's going to turn out okay, and feeling a bit helpless. Second: feeling depressed and saddened by a lot of things around you; you're not laughing at jokes, you see houses as tombstones, which I absolutely love the imagery that the people buried in their "houses" are all just as dead as you feel. You feel helpless knowing that now matter how many things change in your life, you still feel the same way. Third: the election, obviously. though I really don't think SLR is picking sides. I think they're trying to represent that, like in one of the other new songs, that there is a lot of empathy going on regarding this year's election. And that there are many voters who are not educating themselves enough on both of the candidates and their veeps to be able to wisely choose a candidate that is right for them. We're deer in headlights; blind. Knowing we want change, we want to be helped, we want to be saved, we want our past resolved. Yet we're frozen; depressed; helpless.
And you just can't take it anymore.