my interpretation of it is that its about putting all your trust, time, energy, devotion, and affection into someone who you ultimately realize only takes and never gives anything back, and that ultimately that person isn't worth a damn. "Serpentine regime ordered by response sort of fell this population". now to me this means women (LoL), but the "serpentine regime" are those who'd use others for their own gain to "fell this population", or make people harder to trust in life by proxy. the,
"I'm sorry, we've never met, my name is driftwood. Thanks friend, good looking, I'll never see you again"
is the other individual who simply uses others for their own benefit prior to abandoning them. Like a person who saves himself from drowning by clutching onto a piece of nearby driftwood, only to throw it away once that person reaches safety or something better to latch onto. The chorus itself could be a metaphor for a one sided friendship/relationshit,
"you'd have only held the cup while I poured",
meaning that you would only have let me put more and more of myself into you, while you gave absolutely nothing back. Theres plenty more that I could use in the lyrics to affirm my point, but thats the gist of what it means to me. most of the fun in Aesop's lyrics is deciphering what they mean, and analyzing what you come up with. reading between the lines is the best way to go about his stuff. next to nothing is ever direct, and everything is conveyed through stream of consciousness.
my interpretation of it is that its about putting all your trust, time, energy, devotion, and affection into someone who you ultimately realize only takes and never gives anything back, and that ultimately that person isn't worth a damn. "Serpentine regime ordered by response sort of fell this population". now to me this means women (LoL), but the "serpentine regime" are those who'd use others for their own gain to "fell this population", or make people harder to trust in life by proxy. the,
"I'm sorry, we've never met, my name is driftwood. Thanks friend, good looking, I'll never see you again"
is the other individual who simply uses others for their own benefit prior to abandoning them. Like a person who saves himself from drowning by clutching onto a piece of nearby driftwood, only to throw it away once that person reaches safety or something better to latch onto. The chorus itself could be a metaphor for a one sided friendship/relationshit,
"you'd have only held the cup while I poured",
meaning that you would only have let me put more and more of myself into you, while you gave absolutely nothing back. Theres plenty more that I could use in the lyrics to affirm my point, but thats the gist of what it means to me. most of the fun in Aesop's lyrics is deciphering what they mean, and analyzing what you come up with. reading between the lines is the best way to go about his stuff. next to nothing is ever direct, and everything is conveyed through stream of consciousness.