I might have to go against the grain on this song... I don't interpret it as being political.
Here's how I see it.
The thief = solitude.... It being a "thief" because society typically views it as a "waste of man".... Society typically has a very negative view of solitude, and paints it as depression, etc.
Solitude: people either try to get rid of it (dissolve), just wait for the next emotion (choose to fade)...or learn to appreciate it (allow it stay, learn to control it and hide their desire for it)
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"Lost in, a finger forced in lie. This sends us medicating through it all"
The lie being that solitude is a thief... that the emotion is a "waste of man"... and how people typically interpret the desire for solitude as depression and choose to medicate themselves for it.
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"If you ever enter my mind. Stay there, you'll learn. To fend it off, and fool them all. Stay there"
People are "fooling" each other about not having the desire to experience solitude
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"If you ever enter my mind. Stay there, you'll learn. To fend it off, and fool them all."
This is saying, if the desire for solitude ever enters his mind, he wants it to stay there and learn to fend off societies desire to push us in the opposite direction (society tends to paint solitude as being bad.. or as depression..).. He is saying he can learn to appreciate solitude and embrace it, while feigning enough that society isn't "worried about him"... (like we typically worry about people who enjoy solitude "too much")
I might have to go against the grain on this song... I don't interpret it as being political.
Here's how I see it.
The thief = solitude.... It being a "thief" because society typically views it as a "waste of man".... Society typically has a very negative view of solitude, and paints it as depression, etc.
Solitude: people either try to get rid of it (dissolve), just wait for the next emotion (choose to fade)...or learn to appreciate it (allow it stay, learn to control it and hide their desire for it)
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"Lost in, a finger forced in lie. This sends us medicating through it all"
The lie being that solitude is a thief... that the emotion is a "waste of man"... and how people typically interpret the desire for solitude as depression and choose to medicate themselves for it.
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"If you ever enter my mind. Stay there, you'll learn. To fend it off, and fool them all. Stay there"
People are "fooling" each other about not having the desire to experience solitude
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"If you ever enter my mind. Stay there, you'll learn. To fend it off, and fool them all."
This is saying, if the desire for solitude ever enters his mind, he wants it to stay there and learn to fend off societies desire to push us in the opposite direction (society tends to paint solitude as being bad.. or as depression..).. He is saying he can learn to appreciate solitude and embrace it, while feigning enough that society isn't "worried about him"... (like we typically worry about people who enjoy solitude "too much")
Whoa. Never thought of the song that way.
Whoa. Never thought of the song that way.