At the start of the song Thom is dead or is about to die and the reverse run is the flash back looking over his life. He is running through it backwards travelling back in time.
The snakes uncoiling represent the negative things in his life uncoiling and coming back to bite him as he travels back through those painful times.
"But you see through me" - shows no one can see him moving back through time.
"Running contrary ways
Pulling off the anyways
I'm messing up
Messing up the patterns
Breaking my trajectory"
Shows how he is moving backwards through time as everyone else is moving forwards. Then the interesting part comes at "messing up the patterns, breaking my trajectory". He is trying to slow down this movement back in time, messing up the causation by drifting into a new part of the timeline.
This is further reinforced when he says " I jump back around " he is reversing his reverse running to start moving forward. He is seeing things now that he shouldn't see because they didn't happen in his original timeline. He moves through life once again in a blur.
He wants to go back in time and live his life again on a different trajectory in one which he might stay with his love, but he knows that no matter what trajectory he takes destiny will always make sure she "messes" him up.
At the start of the song Thom is dead or is about to die and the reverse run is the flash back looking over his life. He is running through it backwards travelling back in time.
The snakes uncoiling represent the negative things in his life uncoiling and coming back to bite him as he travels back through those painful times.
"But you see through me" - shows no one can see him moving back through time.
"Running contrary ways Pulling off the anyways I'm messing up Messing up the patterns Breaking my trajectory"
Shows how he is moving backwards through time as everyone else is moving forwards. Then the interesting part comes at "messing up the patterns, breaking my trajectory". He is trying to slow down this movement back in time, messing up the causation by drifting into a new part of the timeline.
This is further reinforced when he says " I jump back around " he is reversing his reverse running to start moving forward. He is seeing things now that he shouldn't see because they didn't happen in his original timeline. He moves through life once again in a blur.
He wants to go back in time and live his life again on a different trajectory in one which he might stay with his love, but he knows that no matter what trajectory he takes destiny will always make sure she "messes" him up.
Some of these lyrics are wrong. Somebody listen more closely and repost. The end of this song is awesome
Some of these lyrics are wrong. Somebody listen more closely and repost. The end of this song is awesome
So.. it's kind of like The Butterfly Effect .
So.. it's kind of like The Butterfly Effect .
Who is she "messing him up"?
Who is she "messing him up"?
@bo3m21 Ex-wife,Ex-girlfriend.. It really doesn't matter. It's more general I think. Right question is "Who is she, messing me up?"
@bo3m21 Ex-wife,Ex-girlfriend.. It really doesn't matter. It's more general I think. Right question is "Who is she, messing me up?"