I'm guessing it's about the human condition in the modern age- 'we're machines that eat and breathe and look really cool', how processed and repetitious life has become- 'everything you do is planned out in advance, the stars push their dark wills down on you.' There's some Terminator references in there too, I think he's comparing the state of the world to the cold, machine-dominated future from the film, and if he could just go back in time and kill Sarah Conner, it would all be ok. It's a beautiful song, the part at the end when the distortion fades...
I'm guessing it's about the human condition in the modern age- 'we're machines that eat and breathe and look really cool', how processed and repetitious life has become- 'everything you do is planned out in advance, the stars push their dark wills down on you.' There's some Terminator references in there too, I think he's comparing the state of the world to the cold, machine-dominated future from the film, and if he could just go back in time and kill Sarah Conner, it would all be ok. It's a beautiful song, the part at the end when the distortion fades out and it's just clean strumming for the rest of the song is really pretty.
Maybe one of the most meaningfully beautiful songs of 2008.
I'm guessing it's about the human condition in the modern age- 'we're machines that eat and breathe and look really cool', how processed and repetitious life has become- 'everything you do is planned out in advance, the stars push their dark wills down on you.' There's some Terminator references in there too, I think he's comparing the state of the world to the cold, machine-dominated future from the film, and if he could just go back in time and kill Sarah Conner, it would all be ok. It's a beautiful song, the part at the end when the distortion fades...
I'm guessing it's about the human condition in the modern age- 'we're machines that eat and breathe and look really cool', how processed and repetitious life has become- 'everything you do is planned out in advance, the stars push their dark wills down on you.' There's some Terminator references in there too, I think he's comparing the state of the world to the cold, machine-dominated future from the film, and if he could just go back in time and kill Sarah Conner, it would all be ok. It's a beautiful song, the part at the end when the distortion fades out and it's just clean strumming for the rest of the song is really pretty.