This song is about Brandon Boyd getting so fed up with the world and its inhabitants senseless way of thinking. He wants to start his life over with a clean slate like the bird called a phoenix does. The phoenix is a bird that lives its life in cycles. It burns up into flames when its old and is recreated back in to its infantile self with a perfectly "clean slate". Brandon wants to recreate himself in a new life or reincarnate as the same life vessel if you will.
This song is about Brandon Boyd getting so fed up with the world and its inhabitants senseless way of thinking. He wants to start his life over with a clean slate like the bird called a phoenix does. The phoenix is a bird that lives its life in cycles. It burns up into flames when its old and is recreated back in to its infantile self with a perfectly "clean slate". Brandon wants to recreate himself in a new life or reincarnate as the same life vessel if you will.