The way I interpret the song is that the subject of the song can no longer tolerate (or fake) living in a world that conflicts so deeply with their desires and beliefs.
When they are dreaming, they are at peace because they can create all that they believe and set themselves free.
The subject also believes they have found a way to escape the waking world and live completely immersed in dreams (hiding out in the back forever).
They also believe that when they escape into a false night, they will be free from all the injustices and the inadequacies of reality. They have "an outsider's escape from a broken heart." It also sounds like they plan on taking someone with them, or, perhaps, that person is already dead.
It reminds me of two things: the heartbreaking feeling of awaking to a world that differs negatively from a beautiful dream and the movie Inception.
Day and night is classic imagery of happy and sad, good and bad. Re-read this that way. It all makes a lot more sense, and fits much better with Emily's general thematic motif.
Day and night is classic imagery of happy and sad, good and bad. Re-read this that way. It all makes a lot more sense, and fits much better with Emily's general thematic motif.
The way I interpret the song is that the subject of the song can no longer tolerate (or fake) living in a world that conflicts so deeply with their desires and beliefs.
When they are dreaming, they are at peace because they can create all that they believe and set themselves free.
The subject also believes they have found a way to escape the waking world and live completely immersed in dreams (hiding out in the back forever).
They also believe that when they escape into a false night, they will be free from all the injustices and the inadequacies of reality. They have "an outsider's escape from a broken heart." It also sounds like they plan on taking someone with them, or, perhaps, that person is already dead.
It reminds me of two things: the heartbreaking feeling of awaking to a world that differs negatively from a beautiful dream and the movie Inception.
Day and night is classic imagery of happy and sad, good and bad. Re-read this that way. It all makes a lot more sense, and fits much better with Emily's general thematic motif.
Day and night is classic imagery of happy and sad, good and bad. Re-read this that way. It all makes a lot more sense, and fits much better with Emily's general thematic motif.