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.
Something different going on up there...Within the individual's mind or this construct as a whole. And ahead for this "helpless stranger" awaits the life we always dreamed in, or the dream of a false reality. But "life"... it's not what you'd expect it to be. Perhaps the false reality is tempting because it's more comforting than the truth of the situation. And even though it's tempting to buy into this, at the same time it's implied that no meaningful changes ever seem to take place. Maybe the other aspect that's tempting is the desire to change to world and do something to create a permanent different.
So you can also look at these lyrics as being about someone who dreams about being in the position to enact or inspire some major changes but once they're where they thought they wanted to be, they realize such change never seems to happen.
Anyways if the lyric is "nothing ever happens and nothing feels the same" I think the idea might be that working to change our world feels useless because nothing ever seems to change for the positive, and doing nothing (as in total apathy) is useless because you just end up feeling the same about the planet around you.
And maybe he sarcastically "lucked out again" because he's still alive (versus people you'd see on the news dying, etc). But he's saying it sarcastically because the world is so awful you aren't really lucky at all?
"If nothing's to it then what's happening, unknown" is about those who would say that there's nothing going on behind the scenes that's any different than it has ever been. Or maybe more accurately, there's nothing to reality and what you see is actually what you get and that the basic assumptions are accurate.
The shape-shifted finite ending likely refers to the popular conspiracy theory of the shape-shifting reptilians who are said to control critical aspects of government and corporations, etc etc. Just look up that one DMT'd / former soccer (football) player who had a fondness for turquoise clothing.
I think it would be a mistake though to assume that ogre is making a declarative statement with this line, more accurately he's just sort of suggesting (perhaps somewhat sarcastically) the most provocative explanation for the colossal problems in this world and doing the same in saying that we might face a finite ending.
That goes to the meaning of the chorus as well sort of. The idea being that one is antagonistically telling the world to "screw me, I like it". Could also be talking about the people out in the world who are unwittingly (that is they're allowing these things to happen through ignorance) being screwed by the system, and sort of making fun of them saying that they like the awful situations they're in as a result of how things are run.
And so the person scratching is purposefully avoiding looking at some homeless person who has been chewed up by this world, and nervously scratching in order to try and conceal the way they feel about it...something to that effect.
Honestly not sure if the lyric is "build a life of tired genius, benigns reverses how it's spent" or "life of tired dream years, lines reverses all respect".
If it's "tired genius, benigns" you're talking about people who work all their life to make changes in the world through so much work and all the progress they make is reversed by people just acting in a benign manner. So it's basically useless, even for the boring genius working tirelessly to enact changes.
Could also be "tired dream years" in which you're talking about those living the typical "American dream" lifestyle who get it taken away from them by either those benigns or a lack of respect because they're getting older or people just simply don't care about them. But to me the lyric could go either way I guess. Either way you kind of get a similar message. And it seems there are multiple versions of this track. And one of the versions is much clearer that he says "build life of tired genius" I think. So I guess that's the right lyric.
And then it's "empty" to know you tried so hard throughout life only to have it all undone. But it's not simple, and yet even with knowing this, the vicious cut remains (as in the feelings about this planet I guess, or frustration with other human beings) and so the "senses and blame" about such a situation remain.
So "screw me, I like it" because you don't really give a fuck anymore, and it could be statement pointed at all the people out there who do nothing and are contributing to all our problems, or it could be aimed at the originators of these problems at the top.
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.
Something different going on up there...Within the individual's mind or this construct as a whole. And ahead for this "helpless stranger" awaits the life we always dreamed in, or the dream of a false reality. But "life"... it's not what you'd expect it to be. Perhaps the false reality is tempting because it's more comforting than the truth of the situation. And even though it's tempting to buy into this, at the same time it's implied that no meaningful changes ever seem to take place. Maybe the other aspect that's tempting is the desire to change to world and do something to create a permanent different.
So you can also look at these lyrics as being about someone who dreams about being in the position to enact or inspire some major changes but once they're where they thought they wanted to be, they realize such change never seems to happen.
Anyways if the lyric is "nothing ever happens and nothing feels the same" I think the idea might be that working to change our world feels useless because nothing ever seems to change for the positive, and doing nothing (as in total apathy) is useless because you just end up feeling the same about the planet around you.
And maybe he sarcastically "lucked out again" because he's still alive (versus people you'd see on the news dying, etc). But he's saying it sarcastically because the world is so awful you aren't really lucky at all?
"If nothing's to it then what's happening, unknown" is about those who would say that there's nothing going on behind the scenes that's any different than it has ever been. Or maybe more accurately, there's nothing to reality and what you see is actually what you get and that the basic assumptions are accurate.
The shape-shifted finite ending likely refers to the popular conspiracy theory of the shape-shifting reptilians who are said to control critical aspects of government and corporations, etc etc. Just look up that one DMT'd / former soccer (football) player who had a fondness for turquoise clothing.
I think it would be a mistake though to assume that ogre is making a declarative statement with this line, more accurately he's just sort of suggesting (perhaps somewhat sarcastically) the most provocative explanation for the colossal problems in this world and doing the same in saying that we might face a finite ending.
That goes to the meaning of the chorus as well sort of. The idea being that one is antagonistically telling the world to "screw me, I like it". Could also be talking about the people out in the world who are unwittingly (that is they're allowing these things to happen through ignorance) being screwed by the system, and sort of making fun of them saying that they like the awful situations they're in as a result of how things are run.
And so the person scratching is purposefully avoiding looking at some homeless person who has been chewed up by this world, and nervously scratching in order to try and conceal the way they feel about it...something to that effect.
Honestly not sure if the lyric is "build a life of tired genius, benigns reverses how it's spent" or "life of tired dream years, lines reverses all respect".
If it's "tired genius, benigns" you're talking about people who work all their life to make changes in the world through so much work and all the progress they make is reversed by people just acting in a benign manner. So it's basically useless, even for the boring genius working tirelessly to enact changes.
Could also be "tired dream years" in which you're talking about those living the typical "American dream" lifestyle who get it taken away from them by either those benigns or a lack of respect because they're getting older or people just simply don't care about them. But to me the lyric could go either way I guess. Either way you kind of get a similar message. And it seems there are multiple versions of this track. And one of the versions is much clearer that he says "build life of tired genius" I think. So I guess that's the right lyric.
And then it's "empty" to know you tried so hard throughout life only to have it all undone. But it's not simple, and yet even with knowing this, the vicious cut remains (as in the feelings about this planet I guess, or frustration with other human beings) and so the "senses and blame" about such a situation remain.
So "screw me, I like it" because you don't really give a fuck anymore, and it could be statement pointed at all the people out there who do nothing and are contributing to all our problems, or it could be aimed at the originators of these problems at the top.