I think that it's about feeling cheated and lied to, be it by a greater system that feels rigged or in a relationship that feels false. In the end, even the person deceiving you has been duped, thinking that they've gained something from pulling the wool over your eyes when they're just as screwed as you, and what you're both given is only enough to move "forward" and "up"... That is, nowhere of any meaning.
Pretty bleak, but beautiful.
Anyone ever heard a live version of this song? Very intense and far less dour than the original, in particular the rushing hi-hat-driven backbeat and psychotic, giddy vocal harmonies. Overall, not to far from Newman's early solo work, minus the heavy-as-hell Thorne production (which I love for quite different reasons).
I think that it's about feeling cheated and lied to, be it by a greater system that feels rigged or in a relationship that feels false. In the end, even the person deceiving you has been duped, thinking that they've gained something from pulling the wool over your eyes when they're just as screwed as you, and what you're both given is only enough to move "forward" and "up"... That is, nowhere of any meaning.
Pretty bleak, but beautiful.
Anyone ever heard a live version of this song? Very intense and far less dour than the original, in particular the rushing hi-hat-driven backbeat and psychotic, giddy vocal harmonies. Overall, not to far from Newman's early solo work, minus the heavy-as-hell Thorne production (which I love for quite different reasons).