well, when a song begins with the words 'i have tried marijuana'... so blantantly, not even using some new metaphor, you can be pretty sure that this is supposed to be about that miraculous drug and how it feels to be 'higher, higher' than everyone around you... as you look down on their silly conventional lives. Actually it reminds me of that other TK song, The Big Country, except with a very different feeling of being excited and fulfilled by being seperated from humanity, instead of disparagingly judging them.
I actually have really bad anxiety, like it's debilitating.. and can completely relate to this song.
lol especially the first line. I'm not saying marijuana is bad, but whenever I smoke weed I like to be alone in my house, watching documentaries on alien conspiracies, lol.
I think weed is really overrated and I highly doubt this song is about "a drug trip".
He could be talking about his memories from his lifetime "I can see my lifetime piling up - a hundred floors below me." But to me, the words that he is using actually are a good description of how anxiety...
I actually have really bad anxiety, like it's debilitating.. and can completely relate to this song.
lol especially the first line. I'm not saying marijuana is bad, but whenever I smoke weed I like to be alone in my house, watching documentaries on alien conspiracies, lol.
I think weed is really overrated and I highly doubt this song is about "a drug trip".
He could be talking about his memories from his lifetime "I can see my lifetime piling up - a hundred floors below me." But to me, the words that he is using actually are a good description of how anxiety controls you, and how a panic attack just hits you.
What I find especially interesting is: "cry cry cry/ it's just you and i/ like an automobile/ with no one at the wheel/ spinning out of control/ we're all over the road/ in our sexy machine/ all the passengers scream/ scream scream"
Now if you notice, the beginning he is saying "cry cry cry" but by the end of it, he's evolved the emotion from just an unpleasant feeling, to a hysterical one.. and on a timeline. Also, when writers use words like "like", or "as" - these are similes. So I assume that he is describing his experience by relating it to a car out of control. Now I don't know if he meant to do this on purpose or not, but the car analogy is so redundant and plain. Perhaps he decided to use this analogy because of its overuse. Just a thought.
Also, "reaching from my bedroom to the stars" relating this back to anxiety again, I often spend a lot of time in my room trying to manically plan my future, or fix my present, just by thinking. and it's funny because my bedroom is where I feel most safe, and as if I can get to my destination from my room, simply by obsessively planning and thinking until it happens.
"pilin' those house up/ pilin' them higher, higher, higher" When he is talking about houses, I have two thoughts: 1. people's lives and experiences are shaped by by heredity and environment. We spend most of our early lives in our homes creating our experiences, learning our behaviours, etc. So I think he could be referring to the idea that "pile" their experiences up, manifest them into problems, i.e., mental disorders like anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, schizotypal, ocd, etc. (yes, a lot of this is chemical, but there are learned behaviours within them). It's like we compile and suppress everything. And I think that's what this is all really about. the 2nd thing I wanted to mention was simply that the repetition could be referring to the looping thoughts/ repeating thoughts, that people who do have anxiety suffer from.
Anyways, that's just my take. Love the band, love the songs.
well, when a song begins with the words 'i have tried marijuana'... so blantantly, not even using some new metaphor, you can be pretty sure that this is supposed to be about that miraculous drug and how it feels to be 'higher, higher' than everyone around you... as you look down on their silly conventional lives. Actually it reminds me of that other TK song, The Big Country, except with a very different feeling of being excited and fulfilled by being seperated from humanity, instead of disparagingly judging them.
I actually have really bad anxiety, like it's debilitating.. and can completely relate to this song. lol especially the first line. I'm not saying marijuana is bad, but whenever I smoke weed I like to be alone in my house, watching documentaries on alien conspiracies, lol. I think weed is really overrated and I highly doubt this song is about "a drug trip". He could be talking about his memories from his lifetime "I can see my lifetime piling up - a hundred floors below me." But to me, the words that he is using actually are a good description of how anxiety...
I actually have really bad anxiety, like it's debilitating.. and can completely relate to this song. lol especially the first line. I'm not saying marijuana is bad, but whenever I smoke weed I like to be alone in my house, watching documentaries on alien conspiracies, lol. I think weed is really overrated and I highly doubt this song is about "a drug trip". He could be talking about his memories from his lifetime "I can see my lifetime piling up - a hundred floors below me." But to me, the words that he is using actually are a good description of how anxiety controls you, and how a panic attack just hits you.
What I find especially interesting is: "cry cry cry/ it's just you and i/ like an automobile/ with no one at the wheel/ spinning out of control/ we're all over the road/ in our sexy machine/ all the passengers scream/ scream scream" Now if you notice, the beginning he is saying "cry cry cry" but by the end of it, he's evolved the emotion from just an unpleasant feeling, to a hysterical one.. and on a timeline. Also, when writers use words like "like", or "as" - these are similes. So I assume that he is describing his experience by relating it to a car out of control. Now I don't know if he meant to do this on purpose or not, but the car analogy is so redundant and plain. Perhaps he decided to use this analogy because of its overuse. Just a thought.
Also, "reaching from my bedroom to the stars" relating this back to anxiety again, I often spend a lot of time in my room trying to manically plan my future, or fix my present, just by thinking. and it's funny because my bedroom is where I feel most safe, and as if I can get to my destination from my room, simply by obsessively planning and thinking until it happens.
"pilin' those house up/ pilin' them higher, higher, higher" When he is talking about houses, I have two thoughts: 1. people's lives and experiences are shaped by by heredity and environment. We spend most of our early lives in our homes creating our experiences, learning our behaviours, etc. So I think he could be referring to the idea that "pile" their experiences up, manifest them into problems, i.e., mental disorders like anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, schizotypal, ocd, etc. (yes, a lot of this is chemical, but there are learned behaviours within them). It's like we compile and suppress everything. And I think that's what this is all really about. the 2nd thing I wanted to mention was simply that the repetition could be referring to the looping thoughts/ repeating thoughts, that people who do have anxiety suffer from.
Anyways, that's just my take. Love the band, love the songs.
@cerberusalpha well, he says at the beginning that he has tried weed, but he doesn't like it.
@cerberusalpha well, he says at the beginning that he has tried weed, but he doesn't like it.