I feel like this song is about somebody's inner struggle and conversations with themselves. The eerie atmosphere and way Isaac sings at the beginning, to me, seem like someone hearing voices or talking to themselves. I view it as a person's relationship between their mind and body. Sometimes our minds feel so detached it's like we're watching ourselves from outside our body. As the "flies gather" around this person-suggesting he is dying or being slowly broken- the mind is helpless to watch as the body decays and dies. Our bodies are always slowly getting older and wearing away, and there is nothing we can do to intervene. The mind pities the body and wishes it had the capabilities to help out, saying "I don't want you to be alone down there". Some people are so desperate to stop this process that they wish they could make a pact with the devil for eternal life or something of the sort.
I may be looking a little deep in to this, but that's my two cents.
I feel like this song is about somebody's inner struggle and conversations with themselves. The eerie atmosphere and way Isaac sings at the beginning, to me, seem like someone hearing voices or talking to themselves. I view it as a person's relationship between their mind and body. Sometimes our minds feel so detached it's like we're watching ourselves from outside our body. As the "flies gather" around this person-suggesting he is dying or being slowly broken- the mind is helpless to watch as the body decays and dies. Our bodies are always slowly getting older and wearing away, and there is nothing we can do to intervene. The mind pities the body and wishes it had the capabilities to help out, saying "I don't want you to be alone down there". Some people are so desperate to stop this process that they wish they could make a pact with the devil for eternal life or something of the sort.
I may be looking a little deep in to this, but that's my two cents.