Perhaps it's wrong to color a person's perception about lyrics like this and it robs them of the experience of understanding what it's about. On the other hand, judging from the number of posts for DIMD and the nature of the subject matter, someone might as well do it.
I think the meaning behind unDeveloped lies between the external ideas and the individual thinking them.
It seems to set the lyrical tone for what's to come. It's difficult to explain ideas like this if you aren't seeing them through a particular mental lens because you likely can't feel them in the way it's intended.
But I think it speaks of our world as a construct in which there is something (a cancer) that is working to halt any type of societal progress. Also, I suppose you could interpret this cancer as either being intentionally malicious or a sad byproduct of humanity itself.
This track can also be thought of as, like I spoke to above, the individual's interactions with finding the truth and digging through information to find it. As in the "stinking piles of underlines" either being the individual underlining things himself or the more glaring examples of truths in this construct. Instances where it sort of reveals itself to be what it truly is.
You have to wonder what the "It" is that "sees through what's safe to say" in that lyric though. Because it either is the "cancer" or the construct I mentioned, if those things are different. And I view the "cancer" as being more an internal force while the construct is created on the outside and projected. But perhaps the lyrics suggest the "cancer" as being something that began on the outside and is now on our insides as a sort of virus.
Also, "fascination with the truth, Doesn't get much closer to," as in just being fascinated by the truth and digging deeper doesn't get us closer to changing the situation? Just one viewpoint.
Corsets create essentially a false image of a person's figure, making their body seem different than it is. However, corsets are sometimes also worn to support people with structural problems (back problems). Anyways, the truth of a person's figure can be revealed when the corset is removed.
And the witch head makes me think of that famous drawing where if you look at it one way it's an unattractive woman with a huge nose (looks like a witch) and if you look at it another way it's a more attractive woman with like a pearl necklace or something.
Other lyrics speak of how everything fits together as, like I said, a sort of orchestrated construct. For every societal problem we face there is a seemingly reasonable (but perhaps maliciously false) explanation put forth.
But another way to look at it is how individuals sort of sculpt reality and put things together in a way that makes sense to them but could be completely false.
The idea seems to go beyond just explaining societal problems within this construct. It could likely also be talking about the nature of life itself inside the construct. Essentially, for every question there's an answer, perhaps placed there by the construct and maybe the answer put forth is totally and purposefully inaccurate. Or even asking the question itself is a diversion from the larger issue.
The construct's eyes are excusing critical words or excusing people who "speak the truth" maybe under the guise of free speech, of "freedom." And each of these opinions gets its day. But the song seems to suggest a limit to this, I would suspect based on public reaction / acceptance of what is being said. And maybe the "freedom" we're given is essentially being used against us by the construct. Every saying is allowed it's day, and bits of confusion eventually find the "truth," every detail has a word to describe it, and perhaps the "plaything" is the people who try to wake others up to the truth. Eventually they go away, one way or another, and nothing changes.
And the author asks who he has to fuck in order for changes to occur?
Perhaps it's wrong to color a person's perception about lyrics like this and it robs them of the experience of understanding what it's about. On the other hand, judging from the number of posts for DIMD and the nature of the subject matter, someone might as well do it.
I think the meaning behind unDeveloped lies between the external ideas and the individual thinking them.
It seems to set the lyrical tone for what's to come. It's difficult to explain ideas like this if you aren't seeing them through a particular mental lens because you likely can't feel them in the way it's intended.
But I think it speaks of our world as a construct in which there is something (a cancer) that is working to halt any type of societal progress. Also, I suppose you could interpret this cancer as either being intentionally malicious or a sad byproduct of humanity itself.
This track can also be thought of as, like I spoke to above, the individual's interactions with finding the truth and digging through information to find it. As in the "stinking piles of underlines" either being the individual underlining things himself or the more glaring examples of truths in this construct. Instances where it sort of reveals itself to be what it truly is.
You have to wonder what the "It" is that "sees through what's safe to say" in that lyric though. Because it either is the "cancer" or the construct I mentioned, if those things are different. And I view the "cancer" as being more an internal force while the construct is created on the outside and projected. But perhaps the lyrics suggest the "cancer" as being something that began on the outside and is now on our insides as a sort of virus.
Also, "fascination with the truth, Doesn't get much closer to," as in just being fascinated by the truth and digging deeper doesn't get us closer to changing the situation? Just one viewpoint.
Corsets create essentially a false image of a person's figure, making their body seem different than it is. However, corsets are sometimes also worn to support people with structural problems (back problems). Anyways, the truth of a person's figure can be revealed when the corset is removed.
And the witch head makes me think of that famous drawing where if you look at it one way it's an unattractive woman with a huge nose (looks like a witch) and if you look at it another way it's a more attractive woman with like a pearl necklace or something.
Other lyrics speak of how everything fits together as, like I said, a sort of orchestrated construct. For every societal problem we face there is a seemingly reasonable (but perhaps maliciously false) explanation put forth.
But another way to look at it is how individuals sort of sculpt reality and put things together in a way that makes sense to them but could be completely false.
The idea seems to go beyond just explaining societal problems within this construct. It could likely also be talking about the nature of life itself inside the construct. Essentially, for every question there's an answer, perhaps placed there by the construct and maybe the answer put forth is totally and purposefully inaccurate. Or even asking the question itself is a diversion from the larger issue.
The construct's eyes are excusing critical words or excusing people who "speak the truth" maybe under the guise of free speech, of "freedom." And each of these opinions gets its day. But the song seems to suggest a limit to this, I would suspect based on public reaction / acceptance of what is being said. And maybe the "freedom" we're given is essentially being used against us by the construct. Every saying is allowed it's day, and bits of confusion eventually find the "truth," every detail has a word to describe it, and perhaps the "plaything" is the people who try to wake others up to the truth. Eventually they go away, one way or another, and nothing changes.
And the author asks who he has to fuck in order for changes to occur?
I think I've missed a few things but there it is.