This song went from awesome to seriously awesome when I found out what slow glass actually is (or at least, would be, since apparently it only exists in sci-fi).
"You need a sheet of "material" which doesn't actually stop light but slows it down to travelling only in a few centimetres a year. Now imagine placing a plate of the material two centimetres thick out in the mountains for, say, two years and then bringing it back for your city window. Over the next two years, the mountain view would slowly emerge from the other side."
Presumably slow glass would be initially opaque at first and then gradually you'd start to be able to see whatever was on the other side. So although the singer saw nothing wrong with his relationship at first, wanted it back, thought he'd be better off with her, it was always an inevitability that with time he would start to see what was actually there, and realise he could be happier without her, as certainly as the laws of physics (or at least fictional physics). He just needed time.
This song went from awesome to seriously awesome when I found out what slow glass actually is (or at least, would be, since apparently it only exists in sci-fi).
From http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16922797.300-slow-glass.html
"You need a sheet of "material" which doesn't actually stop light but slows it down to travelling only in a few centimetres a year. Now imagine placing a plate of the material two centimetres thick out in the mountains for, say, two years and then bringing it back for your city window. Over the next two years, the mountain view would slowly emerge from the other side."
Presumably slow glass would be initially opaque at first and then gradually you'd start to be able to see whatever was on the other side. So although the singer saw nothing wrong with his relationship at first, wanted it back, thought he'd be better off with her, it was always an inevitability that with time he would start to see what was actually there, and realise he could be happier without her, as certainly as the laws of physics (or at least fictional physics). He just needed time.
WOW dude you just blew my mind thank you!
WOW dude you just blew my mind thank you!