'When you're looking at life
In a strange new room
Maybe drowning soon
Is this the start of it all?'
This is - not so much a response, as a reaction perhaps to the Socratic sentiment, that an unexamined life is not worth living.
'Turn on your TV
Turn down your pulse'
Then the sense of alienation, wanting to escape, turning on TV, forgetting your thoughts that would drown you. 'Turn down your pulse' - escape from life.
'Turn away from it all
It's all getting too much'
The song looks very simple, but actually it's very powerful, there is a strong feeling of stress, claustrophobia, the desire to understand combined with the inability to make sense of things.
'When you're looking at life In a strange new room Maybe drowning soon Is this the start of it all?'
This is - not so much a response, as a reaction perhaps to the Socratic sentiment, that an unexamined life is not worth living.
'Turn on your TV Turn down your pulse'
Then the sense of alienation, wanting to escape, turning on TV, forgetting your thoughts that would drown you. 'Turn down your pulse' - escape from life.
'Turn away from it all It's all getting too much'
The song looks very simple, but actually it's very powerful, there is a strong feeling of stress, claustrophobia, the desire to understand combined with the inability to make sense of things.