The imagery puzzles me.
Fences separate things and are barriers. In this case, since there are "in a row" might represent a divide between reality and the expectations society has of the speaker, or perhaps between the speaker's desires and the expectations of the speaker.
The first verse seems to reinforce this idea--the speaker talks to another person and challenges their loyalty. Will the other person stand by the speaker, or will they go join the dissidents--those who are against the speaker. The next part speaks of the past conflicts or relationships once remembered (by society, I presume), now forgotten (but not by the speaker).
Rolling the dice seems to speak of gambling or of other risky behavior. Perhaps the speaker is fed up with making decisions because none turn out correctly, so he just wants somebody else to tell him what to do.
The next verse should be important, since it is repeated, but for the life of me, I have no clue what it means. In the first half of it, the speaker seems to question whether he is making he right decisions, though he wonders why anyone would think his situation fun.
The last verse seems to return to the relationship between the speaker and someone else. It seems very rocky, and as though they are having an argument. "I would've let you know..." and "I know you'd rather mess with me than get going" seem especially like parts of an argument.
My other idea is that the speaker is struggling with schizophrenia. The fences would represent the divide between reality and fantasy. The nonsensical lyrics contribute to this sense of disorganization to us, though the speaker finds them perfectly sensible, and the imagery could be images the speaker (the schizophreniac) is seeing. Furthermore, the first verse would show the speaker's paranoia that the one person he trusts will join the conspiracy against him, as would the last verse. Rolling the dice could still represent risky behavior, or rather it could represent the speaker's anger that another person is controlling them as springflowers has suggested.
The imagery puzzles me. Fences separate things and are barriers. In this case, since there are "in a row" might represent a divide between reality and the expectations society has of the speaker, or perhaps between the speaker's desires and the expectations of the speaker.
The first verse seems to reinforce this idea--the speaker talks to another person and challenges their loyalty. Will the other person stand by the speaker, or will they go join the dissidents--those who are against the speaker. The next part speaks of the past conflicts or relationships once remembered (by society, I presume), now forgotten (but not by the speaker).
Rolling the dice seems to speak of gambling or of other risky behavior. Perhaps the speaker is fed up with making decisions because none turn out correctly, so he just wants somebody else to tell him what to do.
The next verse should be important, since it is repeated, but for the life of me, I have no clue what it means. In the first half of it, the speaker seems to question whether he is making he right decisions, though he wonders why anyone would think his situation fun.
The last verse seems to return to the relationship between the speaker and someone else. It seems very rocky, and as though they are having an argument. "I would've let you know..." and "I know you'd rather mess with me than get going" seem especially like parts of an argument.
My other idea is that the speaker is struggling with schizophrenia. The fences would represent the divide between reality and fantasy. The nonsensical lyrics contribute to this sense of disorganization to us, though the speaker finds them perfectly sensible, and the imagery could be images the speaker (the schizophreniac) is seeing. Furthermore, the first verse would show the speaker's paranoia that the one person he trusts will join the conspiracy against him, as would the last verse. Rolling the dice could still represent risky behavior, or rather it could represent the speaker's anger that another person is controlling them as springflowers has suggested.