The song appears to be about a performers experience of feeding off the energy from an audience...Or specifically how Chevelle feels (and feeds off the energy) when they perform in front of people.
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"Below...They're begging for it":
The fans of any event.
"This might just be the mother of all our needs":
Any performers need to get in front of an audience, lay it all out and feed on the energy.
"I live, weep, and sigh...In this bed of cement...How perfectly shadowed this circus":
How regular day-to-day life is tedious and regular.. But it is all overshadowed when they perform.
"I start swinging... We start swinging":
Metaphor for any performer doing their act on stage.
IMHO,
The song appears to be about a performers experience of feeding off the energy from an audience...Or specifically how Chevelle feels (and feeds off the energy) when they perform in front of people.
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"Below...They're begging for it":
The fans of any event.
"This might just be the mother of all our needs":
Any performers need to get in front of an audience, lay it all out and feed on the energy.
"I live, weep, and sigh...In this bed of cement...How perfectly shadowed this circus":
How regular day-to-day life is tedious and regular.. But it is all overshadowed when they perform.
"I start swinging... We start swinging": Metaphor for any performer doing their act on stage.