Knowing nothing about the game I'll talk about the possible meaning from the writers point of view.
I think "Exile" stands for the state he is in, as he says that it takes his mind again. Exile is the feeling you have when you start asking yourself abstract questions, when you start losing touch to everydays life and think "Why?". Exile is when your mind starts drifting away from your routine, from your friends and your family, when everything seems absurd and ridiculous.
It's a situation the narrator or the person he's talking about knows really well, "it takes your mind again". It's a kind of up and down thing like in R.E.M.s "Low": "Up and down, High and low, Low low low" that symbolizes the cours of life. You feel low then it goes better, then low again and better again and so on.
In those situation everything seems heavy: "suckers luck", you feel like giving up, "feels like a trial": life feels like a burden ect.
Then "you lived so much" sounds like if he actually doesn't want that "living" anymore and want to take a break.
Although I'm not sure about the link between "does it feel like a trial" and "No, you're thinking too fast, You're like marbles on glass", i think the second one is a beautiful image.
Then I think "Vilify, don't even try" means, that the person sould stop asking itself because it's senseless and just accept the condition even if it seems absurd. Vilify, don't even try to understand.
"Did you fall for the same empty answers again?" means the attempt to give yourself reasons to eplain why things are like they are, because it's always easier to believe in something than to accept the senselessness of your condition. And in contrast to that the advice of the resigned and disillusioned narrator that says "Accept instead of trying to find empty answers".
@marth1080 5 years later i can tell you that. the character this is written about is a paranoid schizophrenic, so alot of this becomes alot more intense, not just the average ups and downs of life or the sense of meaningless depression gives to someone that suffers. that would definitely make the marbles on glass part make more sense, seeing as in the games, and comic, he carrys a large storage cube on his back and talks back a forth with it without his medication. this song is all about his self doubt, existentialism and nihilism that is inherently in...
@marth1080 5 years later i can tell you that. the character this is written about is a paranoid schizophrenic, so alot of this becomes alot more intense, not just the average ups and downs of life or the sense of meaningless depression gives to someone that suffers. that would definitely make the marbles on glass part make more sense, seeing as in the games, and comic, he carrys a large storage cube on his back and talks back a forth with it without his medication. this song is all about his self doubt, existentialism and nihilism that is inherently in his mind, and also given new birth, since the future of the freedom of the human race is basically in his hands. the only reason he has this struggle with right and wrong, and finding the power inside himself to achieve this goal, is because of his paranoid delusions changing how he behaved before everything went too shit and everyone he cared about was murdered by a gigantic sentient A.I.
Knowing nothing about the game I'll talk about the possible meaning from the writers point of view.
I think "Exile" stands for the state he is in, as he says that it takes his mind again. Exile is the feeling you have when you start asking yourself abstract questions, when you start losing touch to everydays life and think "Why?". Exile is when your mind starts drifting away from your routine, from your friends and your family, when everything seems absurd and ridiculous. It's a situation the narrator or the person he's talking about knows really well, "it takes your mind again". It's a kind of up and down thing like in R.E.M.s "Low": "Up and down, High and low, Low low low" that symbolizes the cours of life. You feel low then it goes better, then low again and better again and so on.
In those situation everything seems heavy: "suckers luck", you feel like giving up, "feels like a trial": life feels like a burden ect. Then "you lived so much" sounds like if he actually doesn't want that "living" anymore and want to take a break. Although I'm not sure about the link between "does it feel like a trial" and "No, you're thinking too fast, You're like marbles on glass", i think the second one is a beautiful image.
Then I think "Vilify, don't even try" means, that the person sould stop asking itself because it's senseless and just accept the condition even if it seems absurd. Vilify, don't even try to understand.
"Did you fall for the same empty answers again?" means the attempt to give yourself reasons to eplain why things are like they are, because it's always easier to believe in something than to accept the senselessness of your condition. And in contrast to that the advice of the resigned and disillusioned narrator that says "Accept instead of trying to find empty answers".
@marth1080 5 years later i can tell you that. the character this is written about is a paranoid schizophrenic, so alot of this becomes alot more intense, not just the average ups and downs of life or the sense of meaningless depression gives to someone that suffers. that would definitely make the marbles on glass part make more sense, seeing as in the games, and comic, he carrys a large storage cube on his back and talks back a forth with it without his medication. this song is all about his self doubt, existentialism and nihilism that is inherently in...
@marth1080 5 years later i can tell you that. the character this is written about is a paranoid schizophrenic, so alot of this becomes alot more intense, not just the average ups and downs of life or the sense of meaningless depression gives to someone that suffers. that would definitely make the marbles on glass part make more sense, seeing as in the games, and comic, he carrys a large storage cube on his back and talks back a forth with it without his medication. this song is all about his self doubt, existentialism and nihilism that is inherently in his mind, and also given new birth, since the future of the freedom of the human race is basically in his hands. the only reason he has this struggle with right and wrong, and finding the power inside himself to achieve this goal, is because of his paranoid delusions changing how he behaved before everything went too shit and everyone he cared about was murdered by a gigantic sentient A.I.