Lyric discussion by wesleyhenryhead 

Cover art for Default lyrics by Atoms for Peace

Right I've been listening to this song over an over all weekend and I believe it to be all about the dangers of playing games on mobile devices.

The song is hung around the central motif of the now long forgotten Nokia 6210 'default' game Snake. We have pawns and queens from online chess and a lot of laying in bed, the place where most mobile games are played. Basically the track depicts a mans path to mobile phone game dependancy.

The song deals with themes of lost time and giving into playing games on your phone- are those birds on telephone wires? a metaphor for twitter? or even angry birds the most popular mobile game around.

Think about it.

I think cell phone game dependency is a bit of a stretch. I would agree that (X) form of dependency would be on the right paths but......idk man, about the game dependency. Did you ever have a game dependency?

Yes. The more and more I think about it the more and more convinced I am that this song directly depicts my life.

Your amusing (and facetitious, I'm assuming?) interpretation would be almost convincing... except the actual lyric is "snares and my nets" not "snakes on my head".