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.
This song calls into question the role of entertainers like Michael Jackson (who are obviously very different from ohGr in terms of popularity and people who listen to the music). And the effect that this role has on the entertainer. But more importantly the effect this sort of person, and their role, has on the general public. Once again, you have to look at the latent functions (or perhaps they're manifest functions) of these situations.
Anyone who followed the Michael Jackson story even a little bit probably understands that, at least at the time of his death, he had been injected with Propofol (a hypnotic) and two different kinds of benzos. That's one blanket, the other being his son's nickname, and I guess a third being the false reality blanket that is touched on more in later tracks.
The second graph makes me think about all the people who have received Michael Jackson CDs as gifts for birthdays, Christmasses, Hanukkahs, etc. Receiving the songs of someone who was forced to perform from a young age and by many accounts lived a very unhealthy and strange existence. And yet so many people in the world get enjoyment out of his tragic life. But also the idea that his music is a hollow story used to pacify the masses or at least further divert them from any critical thinking.
I wonder about the "man son man" lyric and how it could be reinterpreted as "Manson man." Another cultural icon (that is Charles Manson). These people get so big that they pretty much lose any fragment of individuality and become these strange ghosts. Definitely a reference to how those type of people become tools to convey a particular message.
"Fleeing from the wrong side, body with the hive." Easily manipulated masses. They're fleeing from their problems through the wrong door, and their bodies I guess with the "hive" or the majority.
Also referencing the type of people who loved Michael Jackson and thought he was just the greatest thing ever. If you saw these people on the news when he died, they cling to him in a completely bizarre obsessed fashion. People like that are truly asleep in Neverland, definitely the sort of people who chose to be kids forever like in Peter Pan. And more to the "never-land" thing, you could be talking about people who never land, obviously. People who have their heads in the clouds or whatever and are not living in any sort of reality.
It's saying our society is too wrapped up in the bullshit that flies from every direction, too focused on having "fun" to the point of ignoring the real world.
A tipping over cowardice? Like cow tipping? Where people push over sleeping cows for fun. A similar reference to what you get later in Animist for example comparing current humanity to cattle. And in this case, sleeping cows who are falling over. Probably also references the plague of indifference that you see mentioned later on unDeveloped.
There's also a comparison of our sort of infantile false reality mind frame to opiates. That's another (4th) example of the blanket. A lot of people who do heroin, oxycodone, etc describe opiates/opioids as being like a blanket that you just crawl into and feel nothing. Something to that effect.
Might be a stretch but since you see the afterbirth lyric mentioned you could think of it as like how when heroin addicts give birth to kids (and they used while pregnant) the babies are born in withdrawal, premature, or whatever. Anyways, it's like how people hide in a blanket of bullshit, then they have children who are comparable to the children of heroin users because they perpetuate the cycle. "Needles my forgiveness" as in people forgiving what's happening out there by using drugs? Or these children who were fed garbage from birth turn to drugs because of what their parents gave them.
But the adherence to this false reality, like heroin (or oxycodone, etc) keeps people from ever getting to where they want to be. Like how with drug addicts if you're actively using you feel like shit and want to stop and feel like a loser, but when you aren't using you feel bored and feel like you want to get high again. The grass is always greener on the other side.
As I said, that passage might be stretch, not sure though.
And then you have the "never ending worry" that people will wake up? Or that people will be less combative and disagreeable towards each other? Or more likely is it that these people are worried that they'll wake up themselves, because they're scared of our actual reality. And so they're walking hand in hand but are sweating because they're experiencing withdrawal from the hallucination that keeps them numb, in the blanket.
This track's title may be similar to the idea with "Comedown." In that people are "crashing" off the false reality. Then again, it mentions opiates and I thought crashing was a term more applied to stimulants.
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.
This song calls into question the role of entertainers like Michael Jackson (who are obviously very different from ohGr in terms of popularity and people who listen to the music). And the effect that this role has on the entertainer. But more importantly the effect this sort of person, and their role, has on the general public. Once again, you have to look at the latent functions (or perhaps they're manifest functions) of these situations.
Anyone who followed the Michael Jackson story even a little bit probably understands that, at least at the time of his death, he had been injected with Propofol (a hypnotic) and two different kinds of benzos. That's one blanket, the other being his son's nickname, and I guess a third being the false reality blanket that is touched on more in later tracks.
The second graph makes me think about all the people who have received Michael Jackson CDs as gifts for birthdays, Christmasses, Hanukkahs, etc. Receiving the songs of someone who was forced to perform from a young age and by many accounts lived a very unhealthy and strange existence. And yet so many people in the world get enjoyment out of his tragic life. But also the idea that his music is a hollow story used to pacify the masses or at least further divert them from any critical thinking.
I wonder about the "man son man" lyric and how it could be reinterpreted as "Manson man." Another cultural icon (that is Charles Manson). These people get so big that they pretty much lose any fragment of individuality and become these strange ghosts. Definitely a reference to how those type of people become tools to convey a particular message.
"Fleeing from the wrong side, body with the hive." Easily manipulated masses. They're fleeing from their problems through the wrong door, and their bodies I guess with the "hive" or the majority.
Also referencing the type of people who loved Michael Jackson and thought he was just the greatest thing ever. If you saw these people on the news when he died, they cling to him in a completely bizarre obsessed fashion. People like that are truly asleep in Neverland, definitely the sort of people who chose to be kids forever like in Peter Pan. And more to the "never-land" thing, you could be talking about people who never land, obviously. People who have their heads in the clouds or whatever and are not living in any sort of reality.
It's saying our society is too wrapped up in the bullshit that flies from every direction, too focused on having "fun" to the point of ignoring the real world.
A tipping over cowardice? Like cow tipping? Where people push over sleeping cows for fun. A similar reference to what you get later in Animist for example comparing current humanity to cattle. And in this case, sleeping cows who are falling over. Probably also references the plague of indifference that you see mentioned later on unDeveloped.
There's also a comparison of our sort of infantile false reality mind frame to opiates. That's another (4th) example of the blanket. A lot of people who do heroin, oxycodone, etc describe opiates/opioids as being like a blanket that you just crawl into and feel nothing. Something to that effect.
Might be a stretch but since you see the afterbirth lyric mentioned you could think of it as like how when heroin addicts give birth to kids (and they used while pregnant) the babies are born in withdrawal, premature, or whatever. Anyways, it's like how people hide in a blanket of bullshit, then they have children who are comparable to the children of heroin users because they perpetuate the cycle. "Needles my forgiveness" as in people forgiving what's happening out there by using drugs? Or these children who were fed garbage from birth turn to drugs because of what their parents gave them.
But the adherence to this false reality, like heroin (or oxycodone, etc) keeps people from ever getting to where they want to be. Like how with drug addicts if you're actively using you feel like shit and want to stop and feel like a loser, but when you aren't using you feel bored and feel like you want to get high again. The grass is always greener on the other side.
As I said, that passage might be stretch, not sure though.
And then you have the "never ending worry" that people will wake up? Or that people will be less combative and disagreeable towards each other? Or more likely is it that these people are worried that they'll wake up themselves, because they're scared of our actual reality. And so they're walking hand in hand but are sweating because they're experiencing withdrawal from the hallucination that keeps them numb, in the blanket.
This track's title may be similar to the idea with "Comedown." In that people are "crashing" off the false reality. Then again, it mentions opiates and I thought crashing was a term more applied to stimulants.