I think it's about a love+secrets, anxiety+madness.
1st verse: He gets depressed over her popularity (he doesn't like her in the spotlight), but he's happy when she gives him attention or they're together.
Subchorus: "Free and easy going" - carefree blissful days with her, "reminded its a sunday" - but reality has a way of bringing them down again.
"You can see clearly...dropped the bomb" - someone told her a secret and it's opened up her eyes about their relationship.
Chorus: "Alice, what's the matter?" he's anxious, wanting her to say something about the situation which has left her shell-shocked.
2nd verse: He starts seeing parts of their relationship in other people (unspoken guilt), but then creates a distinction between his+Alice's relationship and other people's (something about them, something about the other), some kind of secret.
"Something I've got to tell you about my dad and your mother" - that they're secretly brother+sister.
SubChorus: He's carefree when he's with her, so he doesn't care about that - but the reality of the situation is there, and it has deeply affected her.
DarkChorus: "Alice, what's the matter?"(x4) - he's anxiously asking/pleading with her to say something about the situation. She's silent.
3rd verse: black/white (distinctions), wrong/right (morals), us/them (distinctions), Bill/Ben (secret relationships) - all something about them, something he doesn't care about.
4th verse: you/me (bro+sis), ABCDE (rigid archetypes), hell/heaven (morals and consequences), 4567 (rigid archetypes) - these are all just words to him, polarizations that don't matter - he still loves her.
Last Verse: He's gearfully pleading/screaming at her to say something, to say that she doesn't care either; but her silence is deafening, and... down the rabbit hole they tumble?
I think it's about a love+secrets, anxiety+madness.
1st verse: He gets depressed over her popularity (he doesn't like her in the spotlight), but he's happy when she gives him attention or they're together.
Subchorus: "Free and easy going" - carefree blissful days with her, "reminded its a sunday" - but reality has a way of bringing them down again. "You can see clearly...dropped the bomb" - someone told her a secret and it's opened up her eyes about their relationship.
Chorus: "Alice, what's the matter?" he's anxious, wanting her to say something about the situation which has left her shell-shocked.
2nd verse: He starts seeing parts of their relationship in other people (unspoken guilt), but then creates a distinction between his+Alice's relationship and other people's (something about them, something about the other), some kind of secret. "Something I've got to tell you about my dad and your mother" - that they're secretly brother+sister.
SubChorus: He's carefree when he's with her, so he doesn't care about that - but the reality of the situation is there, and it has deeply affected her.
DarkChorus: "Alice, what's the matter?"(x4) - he's anxiously asking/pleading with her to say something about the situation. She's silent.
3rd verse: black/white (distinctions), wrong/right (morals), us/them (distinctions), Bill/Ben (secret relationships) - all something about them, something he doesn't care about.
4th verse: you/me (bro+sis), ABCDE (rigid archetypes), hell/heaven (morals and consequences), 4567 (rigid archetypes) - these are all just words to him, polarizations that don't matter - he still loves her.
Last Verse: He's gearfully pleading/screaming at her to say something, to say that she doesn't care either; but her silence is deafening, and... down the rabbit hole they tumble?