This is my favorite song from Chemical Cords. It's a typical theme from the 'lab: the transition we take in our thought processes from what is imaginary and illusional to what is real and actual. Here in this song it is kind of blown up into cosmic, metaphysical terms: "represent the universe in the most distinguishable way". Like, she's saying instead of thinking conventionally, we should "concentrate" instead on ideas which are "the remote manifestations of things to be" and make them "current existence, reality".
I think the last stanza also has the sense that whenever we think we have things figured out, it turns out that our deepest fears and far-fetched hopes end up becoming true in the end.
This is my favorite song from Chemical Cords. It's a typical theme from the 'lab: the transition we take in our thought processes from what is imaginary and illusional to what is real and actual. Here in this song it is kind of blown up into cosmic, metaphysical terms: "represent the universe in the most distinguishable way". Like, she's saying instead of thinking conventionally, we should "concentrate" instead on ideas which are "the remote manifestations of things to be" and make them "current existence, reality".
I think the last stanza also has the sense that whenever we think we have things figured out, it turns out that our deepest fears and far-fetched hopes end up becoming true in the end.