This thread seems to have multiple opinions on what this song is about. In that continued theme, here's what I think:
I think this song is about the modernization of the world. Not necessarily "modernization," maybe more like globalized, commercialized and "sanitized" in a metaphorical sense.
The clowns are a symbol of the way it used to be, and as the world became more mainstream (the iron) the clowns were stuck in the old way. They are still liked, however the people now clap for them with iron hands, meaning that THEY are entertaining the clowns as a symbol of the primitive.
Send a cage through the post, make your name like a ghost. People these days really are anonymous (their names are ghosts) as people are slowly becoming numbers.
I'm screaming, I met you this way. In a continued world of monotony, he is screaming for it to stop, and someone "heard" that and stared the common feeling.
This thread seems to have multiple opinions on what this song is about. In that continued theme, here's what I think:
I think this song is about the modernization of the world. Not necessarily "modernization," maybe more like globalized, commercialized and "sanitized" in a metaphorical sense.
The clowns are a symbol of the way it used to be, and as the world became more mainstream (the iron) the clowns were stuck in the old way. They are still liked, however the people now clap for them with iron hands, meaning that THEY are entertaining the clowns as a symbol of the primitive.
Send a cage through the post, make your name like a ghost. People these days really are anonymous (their names are ghosts) as people are slowly becoming numbers.
I'm screaming, I met you this way. In a continued world of monotony, he is screaming for it to stop, and someone "heard" that and stared the common feeling.
I'm probably wrong, but what do I know.