I feel that it's pretty much about coming out of the closet. "Painting Rainbows across my ugly face against this cardboard neighborhood's disgrace" can be seen as going against the mold of the non-progressive neighborhood and embracing the rainbow. "Within the confines of such chemistry" can be seen as a blow to the old argument that being gay goes against human nature and chemistry. "But I feel alive and I feel it in me" talks about how even though he will hide it and people don't want to see him this way, he still knows who he is on the inside.
"Oh have you ever felt so goddamn strong, how come it takes some people so damn long" talks about how he feels good about the way he is, but he doesn't understand why others take so long to accept him even though he himself is happy about it. "Watch the basin drain as your life lines wane and you can't explain as your friends complain you've caused all this pain and you proudly shame your whole families name" remarks how he is losing a lot being this way. His family and friends don't like the fact that he is gay, but he doesn't care what they think.
"Mother I can tell what you've been thinking staring at the stars on your ceiling thinking once there was a power that you were wielding" has a line about the stars on her ceiling, which can be seen as a symbol for the plastic stars on kids ceilings, and how she feels she has lost her son. She doesn't know where she went wrong.
Being pansexual myself, eeyup, this is a wonderful interpretation. And my personal interpretation of one of the verses you didn't mention to accompany yours:
Being pansexual myself, eeyup, this is a wonderful interpretation. And my personal interpretation of one of the verses you didn't mention to accompany yours:
THIS VERSE IS IN THE PAST TENSE, And it could be interpreted as the moment the narrator realized something was "off".
THIS VERSE IS IN THE PAST TENSE, And it could be interpreted as the moment the narrator realized something was "off".
"My face blew up at such a casual sight" - Becoming incredibly happy when you see a friend you love (as a friend, that is) of the same gender. Overly happy, at that.
"My face blew up at such a casual sight" - Becoming incredibly happy when you see a friend you love (as a friend, that is) of the same gender. Overly happy, at that.
"The smattered colors of ecstatic fright"- That happiness you feel becomes "ecstatic fright", which is definitely the feeling...
"The smattered colors of ecstatic fright"- That happiness you feel becomes "ecstatic fright", which is definitely the feeling you get when you see someone you have a crush on.
"The rush above me to oblivion"-This "rush" happens as you recognize what you are feeling, recognize that you clearly aren't straight, and realize that you are quite suddenly heading "toward oblivion" - toward total alienation from most of your family.
"Outlining wet sidewalks in halogen"- Describing how, in that moment, it seems as though everything just became a little brighter (love tends to do that), and bringing home the idea that this is a moment which will forever be highlighted in your memory (halogen is used in neon signs).
Of course, sadly, people are probably right that the song was intended to be about drugs. Screw what the song's actually about! How about we allow it to have a decent, somewhat happy meaning, what the song SOUNDS like it should be?
I feel that it's pretty much about coming out of the closet. "Painting Rainbows across my ugly face against this cardboard neighborhood's disgrace" can be seen as going against the mold of the non-progressive neighborhood and embracing the rainbow. "Within the confines of such chemistry" can be seen as a blow to the old argument that being gay goes against human nature and chemistry. "But I feel alive and I feel it in me" talks about how even though he will hide it and people don't want to see him this way, he still knows who he is on the inside.
"Oh have you ever felt so goddamn strong, how come it takes some people so damn long" talks about how he feels good about the way he is, but he doesn't understand why others take so long to accept him even though he himself is happy about it. "Watch the basin drain as your life lines wane and you can't explain as your friends complain you've caused all this pain and you proudly shame your whole families name" remarks how he is losing a lot being this way. His family and friends don't like the fact that he is gay, but he doesn't care what they think.
"Mother I can tell what you've been thinking staring at the stars on your ceiling thinking once there was a power that you were wielding" has a line about the stars on her ceiling, which can be seen as a symbol for the plastic stars on kids ceilings, and how she feels she has lost her son. She doesn't know where she went wrong.
So yeah, that's my take on it.
Yes!
Yes!
Being pansexual myself, eeyup, this is a wonderful interpretation. And my personal interpretation of one of the verses you didn't mention to accompany yours:
Being pansexual myself, eeyup, this is a wonderful interpretation. And my personal interpretation of one of the verses you didn't mention to accompany yours:
THIS VERSE IS IN THE PAST TENSE, And it could be interpreted as the moment the narrator realized something was "off".
THIS VERSE IS IN THE PAST TENSE, And it could be interpreted as the moment the narrator realized something was "off".
"My face blew up at such a casual sight" - Becoming incredibly happy when you see a friend you love (as a friend, that is) of the same gender. Overly happy, at that.
"My face blew up at such a casual sight" - Becoming incredibly happy when you see a friend you love (as a friend, that is) of the same gender. Overly happy, at that.
"The smattered colors of ecstatic fright"- That happiness you feel becomes "ecstatic fright", which is definitely the feeling...
"The smattered colors of ecstatic fright"- That happiness you feel becomes "ecstatic fright", which is definitely the feeling you get when you see someone you have a crush on.
"The rush above me to oblivion"-This "rush" happens as you recognize what you are feeling, recognize that you clearly aren't straight, and realize that you are quite suddenly heading "toward oblivion" - toward total alienation from most of your family.
"Outlining wet sidewalks in halogen"- Describing how, in that moment, it seems as though everything just became a little brighter (love tends to do that), and bringing home the idea that this is a moment which will forever be highlighted in your memory (halogen is used in neon signs).
Of course, sadly, people are probably right that the song was intended to be about drugs. Screw what the song's actually about! How about we allow it to have a decent, somewhat happy meaning, what the song SOUNDS like it should be?