One of my favorite songs ever, period. Neverminding the fact that ATDI songs commonly have multiple levels of meaning, or no singular meaning at all this is my interpretation...
To me it's a song about not knowing how to, or maybe not wanting to, interact with or be a part of the "real" world, human drama. Drowning out real life with some substitute, in the song it's music, but I feel the repeated references to headphones, speakers, decibals, etc. is a metaphor for whatever is your distraction (drugs, sex, art, games) positive/negative, whatever you use to get away.
It's about knowing you should give a damn, or wanting to, but not being able to. It's about willful distraction.
Well, that's not very satisfactory, but I can't express it any better right now.
One of my favorite songs ever, period. Neverminding the fact that ATDI songs commonly have multiple levels of meaning, or no singular meaning at all this is my interpretation...
To me it's a song about not knowing how to, or maybe not wanting to, interact with or be a part of the "real" world, human drama. Drowning out real life with some substitute, in the song it's music, but I feel the repeated references to headphones, speakers, decibals, etc. is a metaphor for whatever is your distraction (drugs, sex, art, games) positive/negative, whatever you use to get away.
It's about knowing you should give a damn, or wanting to, but not being able to. It's about willful distraction.
Well, that's not very satisfactory, but I can't express it any better right now.