This one's very obviously about feeling isolated, different. He says his town is very boring, life's becoming dull. He wants something to break him out of the monotony. He wants to really find out what it's all about. But if he does, he will be even more isolated, because all the great things he's discovered--all the other people aren't interested in those things. They'll think he's just weird and shut him out even more. So it's basically either you stick your neck out to get something back from life, or you let yourself slink into the boredom of being "normal" in society. The lyrics also say how "normal" for us would be considered strange to outsiders (and the narrator himself is an outsider). I guess it's really just about not fitting in with everyone else and wanting to belong somewhere. You feel like an alien on a strange planet and you just want to get lifted up and taken back home.
This one's very obviously about feeling isolated, different. He says his town is very boring, life's becoming dull. He wants something to break him out of the monotony. He wants to really find out what it's all about. But if he does, he will be even more isolated, because all the great things he's discovered--all the other people aren't interested in those things. They'll think he's just weird and shut him out even more. So it's basically either you stick your neck out to get something back from life, or you let yourself slink into the boredom of being "normal" in society. The lyrics also say how "normal" for us would be considered strange to outsiders (and the narrator himself is an outsider). I guess it's really just about not fitting in with everyone else and wanting to belong somewhere. You feel like an alien on a strange planet and you just want to get lifted up and taken back home.