101101010010100 Lyrics

Lyric discussion by dreamweaverSam 

Cover art for 101101010010100 lyrics by Flobots

I am a huge Flobots fan, and one of the rawest and truest talented songs is from the newest album, titled, "By the time you get this message." In the beginning of the song, you hear either a dial tone of numbers, for binary coding. which has led me to believe that Johnny 5 cleverly decided to tie the two songs together. Here is my interpretation of one of the lyrics I see matching. Binary lyric; "This is my heart this is the part one asleep one awake back to back in the dark(In the night there's two in the light only one of us will remain),By the time you get this message lyric; "Is this the part where my heart breaks? One asleep, one awake, back to back because you wouldn't turn towards me." making these two songs written at different times, related. johnny 5 is making a assumption that the clover girl is found/caught/revealed, this song will have fit his prediction or hope. Began or begins. Either he knows it is going to be tricky, during writing binary, or he deliberately wrote the lyrics and connected them later to create a connection. Making Survival Stories his love story, and having Panacea for the Poison, which is the final song on Survival Stories my other favorite. It is written to guess whether he has or hasn't depicted throughout the album. I have listened in its entirety, several times, and still find it baffling. Yes the references can construe several types of scenario's, but in the end, he is "growing old" and "telling stories at the same time" which leads me to believe that the binary is nothing but a message to the only person who could decipher it, johnny 5 to his growing old partner. The only true mystery, is if he predicted the turn out before this song, or if in fact the song was written for someone then and made to fit for the one now.

My Interpretation