here are my thoughts on the song lyrics alone (not really referring to the music video)...
I was listening to the new album in my car... and with every song i hear a new meaning..... so part of my interpretation to the lyrics of this song come from my own insight of the new album and what i understand from those lyrics.
I took apart the song line by line to try and interpret a meaning:
"All my friends are skeletons"- He realizes we're "just" biological beings, skeletons, human beings not to be confused with "persons" (there is nothing personal with skeletons.... we are alive in this world.. and we're left here... with no meaning to living)
"Dulcimers and chariots
Prayers to god, oh prayers to god
Hammers for our hollowed heads"- He's speaking about music (hammered dulcimer is a musical instrument)and how we experience and hear the words and sounds with music...but it fills out empty heads .....empty because we don't understand why we're here or what the purpose is. we are just beings.... existing.... experiencing.
"Oh you had such big, big plans
Swallowed all your vitamins"-the world was a bigger place when u were a child... lots of hope and dreams... somewhere in his life he realized another reality. Swallowed all his vitamins like a good boy (and a compliant boy).... it's important to be healthy. but now, what is the purpose of being healthy if the world doesn't have meaning?
"Wore your poems like a scar
What ever happened to them?"- He expresses himself through his poems and song lyrics....they are worn like a scar because they are about him... they are a caption taken from that moment in time... like a journal entry.. where his experiences and "scars" will always preserved on paper.... (incase he should forget). Then he asks, what happened to them..... is poems and writing style has changed... as his thoughts have changed.
"Was I sleeping all this time?"- when he grew up he starting asking himself "why". why does he swallow vitamins exactly, why does he do the things he does.... what is this world we're living in.... Since he just opened his eyes to these questions he is able to see a time in his life when he was "sleeping" and not asking these questions.
"Was my shadow ever mine?"- he's asking himself who has made these decisions for him if it wasn't him. we think we are making up our own mind.... but are we? is there free-will? are we ever free?..... is his body, his shadow, his "skeleton", or anything really belong to him?
here are my thoughts on the song lyrics alone (not really referring to the music video)... I was listening to the new album in my car... and with every song i hear a new meaning..... so part of my interpretation to the lyrics of this song come from my own insight of the new album and what i understand from those lyrics.
I took apart the song line by line to try and interpret a meaning:
"All my friends are skeletons"- He realizes we're "just" biological beings, skeletons, human beings not to be confused with "persons" (there is nothing personal with skeletons.... we are alive in this world.. and we're left here... with no meaning to living)
"Dulcimers and chariots Prayers to god, oh prayers to god Hammers for our hollowed heads"- He's speaking about music (hammered dulcimer is a musical instrument)and how we experience and hear the words and sounds with music...but it fills out empty heads .....empty because we don't understand why we're here or what the purpose is. we are just beings.... existing.... experiencing.
"Oh you had such big, big plans Swallowed all your vitamins"-the world was a bigger place when u were a child... lots of hope and dreams... somewhere in his life he realized another reality. Swallowed all his vitamins like a good boy (and a compliant boy).... it's important to be healthy. but now, what is the purpose of being healthy if the world doesn't have meaning?
"Wore your poems like a scar What ever happened to them?"- He expresses himself through his poems and song lyrics....they are worn like a scar because they are about him... they are a caption taken from that moment in time... like a journal entry.. where his experiences and "scars" will always preserved on paper.... (incase he should forget). Then he asks, what happened to them..... is poems and writing style has changed... as his thoughts have changed.
"Was I sleeping all this time?"- when he grew up he starting asking himself "why". why does he swallow vitamins exactly, why does he do the things he does.... what is this world we're living in.... Since he just opened his eyes to these questions he is able to see a time in his life when he was "sleeping" and not asking these questions.
"Was my shadow ever mine?"- he's asking himself who has made these decisions for him if it wasn't him. we think we are making up our own mind.... but are we? is there free-will? are we ever free?..... is his body, his shadow, his "skeleton", or anything really belong to him?
I love your brain.
I love your brain.