Lyric discussion by Empyrean91 

Cover art for Central lyrics by John Frusciante

I totally love how he plays with your feelings in this song. Maybe its just my perception, but at the time when he repeats this "...dreading a time that is not near as a man on a cross i have no fear..." - you first get led by the constant synth tone. When the violins get louder and the other instruments are quite, you feel pure emptiness, and for me, it feels like your soul gets pulled out of your body and get led by the music. When the hard synth (dont know how to describe it) begins you feel pure fear. Then the drumset comes in from some kind of corner, and you get more comfortable, and when the whole instruments came back, you feel very relieved. Sorry, I think im to crazy for this :D

No you're NOT crazy for feeling like this. I felt "pure fear" too and still do when that part starts. It is the emptiness, nothing is scarier to me than a sense of true spiritual aloneness, has only happened 4 times in my life. Terrifying. I never thought lessening of the fear level being due to the instrumental changes (I have NO musical background, all my creativity is "spent" in the dimension of colors and shapes..I'm a painter..lol..this is off point but I used to feel so left out when John talked about that dimension of vibrations, cause all I...

@Empyrean91 this is a great comment and I had to listen to this song again after i read it :-)