Lyric discussion by BTDAN 

Cover art for Lost Perfection: a) Coulrophobia lyrics by Between the Buried and Me

I'm not the first person to realize this, not even close, but I'm posting this here just for all the people who are just getting into BTBAM and don't know. So they won't have to jump around the internet collecting info like I had to.

This song is introducing a character called Prospect #2. He is a protagonist that is on a mission to save his world from destruction he had caused. His "mission" is to go back in time and plant microorganisms. I'm not sure how that exactly was supposed to work, but either way he failed his mission. When he returns to his time, his is destroyed, or it might be totally non-existent, depending on your interpretation. This is all confirmed in the EP: "The Parallax: The Hypersleep Dialouges" and more specifically in the WRITTEN lyrics for "Lunar Wilderness."

I think that maybe, Tommy started thinking of this story while touring and being bored in the tour van.

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