i see this as a song about getting sober.
from the beginning to the end:
he grew up with a catholic upbringing (morals, values, etc.) and then "scraped it up" (drug use, sex, etc.) then he kind of lost this upbringing "everything was moving so fast..."
AA/NA's whole thing is that you make a "conscious decision" to get clean. he uses the exact words conscious decision which you hear repeatedly in the program and then says "shake the skin i've been in" - from the drugs/alcohol... getting clean. when he says stretch my bones believe in nothing - i think this is a common thing. forgetting what you believe in or pushing it aside and now he's relizing that he does have faith in god or what not and now hes asking this 'higher power' to keep his feet on the ground.
and then there's the part where he says: but that's where you came in (right after everything was moving so fast) and i think that from this whole album it is made clear that a girl was playing heavily in his addiction. and now hes struggling with this decision "is it us? or is it me" and of course it has to be for you if you want to get sober. and he once again asked to be grounded. its like everythings spinning out of control and hes looking back to his catholic roots and praying to be taken away from the insanity of addiction.
i see this as a song about getting sober. from the beginning to the end: he grew up with a catholic upbringing (morals, values, etc.) and then "scraped it up" (drug use, sex, etc.) then he kind of lost this upbringing "everything was moving so fast..."
AA/NA's whole thing is that you make a "conscious decision" to get clean. he uses the exact words conscious decision which you hear repeatedly in the program and then says "shake the skin i've been in" - from the drugs/alcohol... getting clean. when he says stretch my bones believe in nothing - i think this is a common thing. forgetting what you believe in or pushing it aside and now he's relizing that he does have faith in god or what not and now hes asking this 'higher power' to keep his feet on the ground.
and then there's the part where he says: but that's where you came in (right after everything was moving so fast) and i think that from this whole album it is made clear that a girl was playing heavily in his addiction. and now hes struggling with this decision "is it us? or is it me" and of course it has to be for you if you want to get sober. and he once again asked to be grounded. its like everythings spinning out of control and hes looking back to his catholic roots and praying to be taken away from the insanity of addiction.
just my views!!