I feel, since I've commented on other songs from this album, that I'm being a bit redundant at this point, but this seems to be, in part, again about the futility of words. When he felt in love, others said it wasn't true--there will always be someone to say the opposite. I think it reflects the difficulties of a postmodern time where almost any statement can be deconstructed from so many sides that it loses all meaning. Even the narrator becomes two distinct people. He becomes "someone else" and sees things for himself now. He is both himself and someone else. Everything is deconstructed into abstraction. Even any conclusion he reaches in this song will be further abstracted, because eventually, he will be older again...
Arguably, the most striking image in the song is of the SILENT man who comes down dressed in radiant colours. I don't believe this is a coincidence.
I feel, since I've commented on other songs from this album, that I'm being a bit redundant at this point, but this seems to be, in part, again about the futility of words. When he felt in love, others said it wasn't true--there will always be someone to say the opposite. I think it reflects the difficulties of a postmodern time where almost any statement can be deconstructed from so many sides that it loses all meaning. Even the narrator becomes two distinct people. He becomes "someone else" and sees things for himself now. He is both himself and someone else. Everything is deconstructed into abstraction. Even any conclusion he reaches in this song will be further abstracted, because eventually, he will be older again...
Arguably, the most striking image in the song is of the SILENT man who comes down dressed in radiant colours. I don't believe this is a coincidence.