I think that this song is speaking most about being able to see through other's deception. The whole 'close one eye step to the side' is exactly like crackhead was saying up there, it's a way to change your perspective and see past what you first perceive.
If you've seen their short film that was recently released for this song, you'll notice that it involves a magician hypnotising people and messing with their minds and such. The song itself eludes to magicians like this;
'A magician's pure joy' - deceiving the audience
'A mind bend for the common folk' - the audience being deceived
'Follow the straight line...(A full house watching what we can't see)' - here it gets interesting. I remember from some documentary I watched that illusionists like to use this trick...basically, the human eye is more prone to follow a straight line than a curve. So, illusionists with make motions in a straight line when they want to divert your attention to one hand, while the other hand makes a curving motion with which they do whatever they didn't want you to see. I think this is actually what he's refering to, too much of a coincidence for it to be something else.
Just thought I'd through that out there for anyone bored enough to bother reading it all.
I think that this song is speaking most about being able to see through other's deception. The whole 'close one eye step to the side' is exactly like crackhead was saying up there, it's a way to change your perspective and see past what you first perceive.
If you've seen their short film that was recently released for this song, you'll notice that it involves a magician hypnotising people and messing with their minds and such. The song itself eludes to magicians like this;
'A magician's pure joy' - deceiving the audience 'A mind bend for the common folk' - the audience being deceived 'Follow the straight line...(A full house watching what we can't see)' - here it gets interesting. I remember from some documentary I watched that illusionists like to use this trick...basically, the human eye is more prone to follow a straight line than a curve. So, illusionists with make motions in a straight line when they want to divert your attention to one hand, while the other hand makes a curving motion with which they do whatever they didn't want you to see. I think this is actually what he's refering to, too much of a coincidence for it to be something else.
Just thought I'd through that out there for anyone bored enough to bother reading it all.