This song is meant to speak to something we all experience. The narrator is describing the sensation of aging and what it means to find immortality.
"If time is a vessel" -- we are all subject to time and its implications on life, as though we are aboard a vessel we are not captains of. The vessel takes us where it wishes to go and we are only along for the ride. Getting older is akin to this feeling, though some describe getting older as their days feeling shorter, as though they were falling from a great height, faster and faster, day by day.
"then learning to love Might be my way back to sea" -- If the soul has a life in this life and the next, then finding someone you truly love means living on to the next life, a sort of reincarnation. Taken more literally, if two individuals chose to procreate, their DNA would actually live on after their death in the "sea of life."
"The flying, the metal, the turning above" -- This is sort of a way to describe the muck, or the sound and the fury we all experience in life, as though with the aforementioned sensation falling, we see many things along our descent. We may try to turn or grab onto something to avoid our descent, but it is inevitable.
"These are just ways to be seen" -- In this ether between life and death, this is where souls meet one another, but it doesn't always mean something when the path of souls cross.
"We all get paid" -- Another common experience every soul has.
"Yeah some get faith before they die" -- Some in life think that they find meaning along their descent, but this is often meaningless as the singer implies.
"Then through stars we will navigate" -- The singer is appealing to his soul mate to travel this ether together through life among the beauty of the stars (which ironically happen to be suns which have burned out many eons ago but their light still travels to our eyes).
"Through the holes in your eyes" -- It is often said that eyes are the window to the soul and so it would not come as a surprise that this is the route for the soul to journey.
"How many days will it take to land?" -- The singer is wondering how much longer he has until the end of life.
"How many ways to reach abandon?" -- Abandon could be considered to be the afterlife, such as heaven or a state of nirvana
"Oh, so swoon, baby, starry nights" -- Along the lovers' journey, they will see beauty and will be overwhelmed with joy
"May our bodies remain" -- In death, after the soul leaves the body, only the body remains on Earth.
"You move with me, I'll treat you right, baby" -- The singer is appealing to his soul mate once more to journey with him since it is the right path. Though "move with me" can also be taken to mean lovemaking.
"May our bodies remain" -- After death, only their bodies should remain on Earth as opposed to their souls which should continue to journey. It is as though a cup of tea has spilled and the liquid (soul) has evaporated but only the cup (body) remains.
"There is love to be made" -- This is sort of self-explanatory but also an important component of a relationship. Love can also be created in other ways, though.
"So just stay here for this while" -- It is important to live in the moment, and one of the ways to savor this is the aforementioned (making love)
"Perhaps heartstrings resuscitate" -- A play on words since the songwriter is a musician. But by playing someone's "heartstrings" or emotions with love, life everlasting can be attained (resuscitated).
"The fading sounds of your life" -- If nothing else, loving someone can mike life more vibrant, and the singer darkly concedes that even while the heartstrings are played, he can still sense that they approach the end of life together, which keeps the journey through life to death from being lonely
Additionally, I would like to say that the title of the song, "Public Pervert" implies that it is considered socially unacceptable to talk about such things in public since people fear death so much. Since the singer is willing to speak of such things, it makes him a "public pervert."
Additionally, I would like to say that the title of the song, "Public Pervert" implies that it is considered socially unacceptable to talk about such things in public since people fear death so much. Since the singer is willing to speak of such things, it makes him a "public pervert."
This song is meant to speak to something we all experience. The narrator is describing the sensation of aging and what it means to find immortality.
"If time is a vessel" -- we are all subject to time and its implications on life, as though we are aboard a vessel we are not captains of. The vessel takes us where it wishes to go and we are only along for the ride. Getting older is akin to this feeling, though some describe getting older as their days feeling shorter, as though they were falling from a great height, faster and faster, day by day.
"then learning to love Might be my way back to sea" -- If the soul has a life in this life and the next, then finding someone you truly love means living on to the next life, a sort of reincarnation. Taken more literally, if two individuals chose to procreate, their DNA would actually live on after their death in the "sea of life."
"The flying, the metal, the turning above" -- This is sort of a way to describe the muck, or the sound and the fury we all experience in life, as though with the aforementioned sensation falling, we see many things along our descent. We may try to turn or grab onto something to avoid our descent, but it is inevitable.
"These are just ways to be seen" -- In this ether between life and death, this is where souls meet one another, but it doesn't always mean something when the path of souls cross.
"We all get paid" -- Another common experience every soul has.
"Yeah some get faith before they die" -- Some in life think that they find meaning along their descent, but this is often meaningless as the singer implies.
"Then through stars we will navigate" -- The singer is appealing to his soul mate to travel this ether together through life among the beauty of the stars (which ironically happen to be suns which have burned out many eons ago but their light still travels to our eyes).
"Through the holes in your eyes" -- It is often said that eyes are the window to the soul and so it would not come as a surprise that this is the route for the soul to journey.
"How many days will it take to land?" -- The singer is wondering how much longer he has until the end of life.
"How many ways to reach abandon?" -- Abandon could be considered to be the afterlife, such as heaven or a state of nirvana
"Oh, so swoon, baby, starry nights" -- Along the lovers' journey, they will see beauty and will be overwhelmed with joy
"May our bodies remain" -- In death, after the soul leaves the body, only the body remains on Earth.
"You move with me, I'll treat you right, baby" -- The singer is appealing to his soul mate once more to journey with him since it is the right path. Though "move with me" can also be taken to mean lovemaking.
"May our bodies remain" -- After death, only their bodies should remain on Earth as opposed to their souls which should continue to journey. It is as though a cup of tea has spilled and the liquid (soul) has evaporated but only the cup (body) remains.
"There is love to be made" -- This is sort of self-explanatory but also an important component of a relationship. Love can also be created in other ways, though.
"So just stay here for this while" -- It is important to live in the moment, and one of the ways to savor this is the aforementioned (making love)
"Perhaps heartstrings resuscitate" -- A play on words since the songwriter is a musician. But by playing someone's "heartstrings" or emotions with love, life everlasting can be attained (resuscitated).
"The fading sounds of your life" -- If nothing else, loving someone can mike life more vibrant, and the singer darkly concedes that even while the heartstrings are played, he can still sense that they approach the end of life together, which keeps the journey through life to death from being lonely
Additionally, I would like to say that the title of the song, "Public Pervert" implies that it is considered socially unacceptable to talk about such things in public since people fear death so much. Since the singer is willing to speak of such things, it makes him a "public pervert."
Additionally, I would like to say that the title of the song, "Public Pervert" implies that it is considered socially unacceptable to talk about such things in public since people fear death so much. Since the singer is willing to speak of such things, it makes him a "public pervert."