I think that aside from being about the music industry and lacey leaving, when i listened to it it spoke to me in this way: The dreamer who steps onto the stage is a symbol for a person who pours their feelings, dreams, and passion, in hopes of finding himself and feeling peace by how others see him, but as he lets his soul explode from within him, it's rejected by the machine (the machine being social opinions or connections with people, and the currency being the acceptance, because nowadays it seems that people are looking for people with some acceptance from other people, or their peer group, which their are many of, just like their are different types of currency), once he is rejected by the machine he decides to forget about other peoples opinions on him and his work, as he steps off of the stage and just gets lost in all that he loves and finds that thats all that he needs to be set free from his cage :) its a beautiful song :)))
I think that aside from being about the music industry and lacey leaving, when i listened to it it spoke to me in this way: The dreamer who steps onto the stage is a symbol for a person who pours their feelings, dreams, and passion, in hopes of finding himself and feeling peace by how others see him, but as he lets his soul explode from within him, it's rejected by the machine (the machine being social opinions or connections with people, and the currency being the acceptance, because nowadays it seems that people are looking for people with some acceptance from other people, or their peer group, which their are many of, just like their are different types of currency), once he is rejected by the machine he decides to forget about other peoples opinions on him and his work, as he steps off of the stage and just gets lost in all that he loves and finds that thats all that he needs to be set free from his cage :) its a beautiful song :)))
Yea thats a big part of it as well, looking for acceptance from a social machine which can become a cage limiting people from become who they are.
Yea thats a big part of it as well, looking for acceptance from a social machine which can become a cage limiting people from become who they are.