The song, like most of the CD seems to get into the idea of transition from childhood to a more adult status. I believe that in some ways, the notion of "abortion" mentioned above are somewhat valid in that it's essentially an allusion to a loss of childlike quality.
The song opens up with this sense being sweet, lovely, charming and cute. Our parents stand by us and even the most easy of tasks "tying laces", are seen as these fantastic accomplishments. The narrator of the song then ponders, "why must we move on, from such happy lawns into nostalgia's palm and feed on the traces". This is basically concerning the fact that we move forward in our lives and are left only to look back on the things we've done. The "unsolved mysteries" of life...so to speak...why do we grow up? why do we get old?
The next section concerns the choices we make as we become older. Do we hop to the dance (conformity) or do we embarrass the parents (being ourselves). This is a choice in life that we all have to make and either way, we will "go to sleep worrying". Because whether we conform or not, to a degree it's still rather frightening.
Keeping with this theme of growing up is the allusion to blood in the dark and that they're not violent, we all have hungry bellies. As we grow up we really do some terrible things to each other and it's not that we're violent/crazy/insane/egotistical, we really DO have hungry bellies. It's a kind of joke that I think he's making and it's really funny if you think about it. "I am not violent, I just have a hungry belly".
Growing up is to "stop crying like a child" and I think in some ways, by no longer crying like a child we no longer see ourselves in the real way we actually are. We forget the "pain and sadness anyway", we forget who we are. That we're children, all of us, growing wildly. Inside each of us is that same hurt,scared, lovely child that is really trying to make it out of this world alive.
The ending segment of the song is about how we enter relationships and we have people who look at us and we're struck by our general attraction....When they look into our eyes, we find that we've grown up old and more frighteningly we've grown up to be the same demons that we used to be afraid of. Yes, we might have "Stopped crying like a child" but now we're just Jack the Rippers. We're slaughtering other human beings, we're killing our inner selves, we're losing it and going crazy.
The song, like most of the CD seems to get into the idea of transition from childhood to a more adult status. I believe that in some ways, the notion of "abortion" mentioned above are somewhat valid in that it's essentially an allusion to a loss of childlike quality.
The song opens up with this sense being sweet, lovely, charming and cute. Our parents stand by us and even the most easy of tasks "tying laces", are seen as these fantastic accomplishments. The narrator of the song then ponders, "why must we move on, from such happy lawns into nostalgia's palm and feed on the traces". This is basically concerning the fact that we move forward in our lives and are left only to look back on the things we've done. The "unsolved mysteries" of life...so to speak...why do we grow up? why do we get old?
The next section concerns the choices we make as we become older. Do we hop to the dance (conformity) or do we embarrass the parents (being ourselves). This is a choice in life that we all have to make and either way, we will "go to sleep worrying". Because whether we conform or not, to a degree it's still rather frightening.
Keeping with this theme of growing up is the allusion to blood in the dark and that they're not violent, we all have hungry bellies. As we grow up we really do some terrible things to each other and it's not that we're violent/crazy/insane/egotistical, we really DO have hungry bellies. It's a kind of joke that I think he's making and it's really funny if you think about it. "I am not violent, I just have a hungry belly".
Growing up is to "stop crying like a child" and I think in some ways, by no longer crying like a child we no longer see ourselves in the real way we actually are. We forget the "pain and sadness anyway", we forget who we are. That we're children, all of us, growing wildly. Inside each of us is that same hurt,scared, lovely child that is really trying to make it out of this world alive.
The ending segment of the song is about how we enter relationships and we have people who look at us and we're struck by our general attraction....When they look into our eyes, we find that we've grown up old and more frighteningly we've grown up to be the same demons that we used to be afraid of. Yes, we might have "Stopped crying like a child" but now we're just Jack the Rippers. We're slaughtering other human beings, we're killing our inner selves, we're losing it and going crazy.
Nice interpretation hariko. I concur with pretty much all of these points.
Nice interpretation hariko. I concur with pretty much all of these points.