The first verse gives me images of the narrator being a worker in some kind of nuclear facility (lifts, carryalls, and especially the "big core" cracking and glowing). Secondly the song title sort of implies this as well (Splitting atoms is part of the nuclear process, reactors are said to "melt"down).
The second verse seems to be the aftermath of the meltdown, with the narrator waking up after being knocked unconscious, but being too dizzy from the incident to get pulled together.
The slow part could be some kind of radiation induced hallucination...? Haha.
Anyway, and of course all of that nuclear imagery could be a metaphor for anything anyone else has mentioned, drugs, etc. Regardless, this song certainly does split you open and melt your mind with its amazing jams. The Split jam in "Demand" on Hoist, ending in the car crash is really well done and always gets my heart racing even though I know what to expect
The first verse gives me images of the narrator being a worker in some kind of nuclear facility (lifts, carryalls, and especially the "big core" cracking and glowing). Secondly the song title sort of implies this as well (Splitting atoms is part of the nuclear process, reactors are said to "melt"down).
The second verse seems to be the aftermath of the meltdown, with the narrator waking up after being knocked unconscious, but being too dizzy from the incident to get pulled together.
The slow part could be some kind of radiation induced hallucination...? Haha.
Anyway, and of course all of that nuclear imagery could be a metaphor for anything anyone else has mentioned, drugs, etc. Regardless, this song certainly does split you open and melt your mind with its amazing jams. The Split jam in "Demand" on Hoist, ending in the car crash is really well done and always gets my heart racing even though I know what to expect