I like to think that this song is a journey into the brain of the narrator.
Most of the song is taking place in a very deep and dark layer of his consciousness, where raw fundamental feelings and only a limited number of words with extremely heavy meaning float around, as the narrator reflects on himself and life. Down here, according to the experiences of the narrator (on drugs or not) it all shifts around to shape the structure of the conscious person on the surface, all happening on one of those ‘Alien Days’
This is the clearest, most conscious part of the narrators thoughts:
those days taught me everything I know
how to catch a feeling
and when to let it go
how all the scheming, soulless creatures
can't find dreamer's honey in the hive
if it's right beneath the nose
To me this is simply a more defined sense of feeling in the narrator, in which the subconscious ramble seems to take shape as actual conscious revelation. To me this seems to show the narrators’ look on people being of 2 kinds; ‘schemers’ and ‘dreamers’ and how the ‘schemers’ are unable to enjoy their stressful lives like the ‘dreamers’ can. The narrator is definitely a dreamer! ☺
you don't need wings to hover forty ton stones for a mile
This seems to be an early subconscious grasp of the sensation ‘faith can move mountains,’
but here comes racer number 7
watch my fingers ripping out the lines
if it looks like we could lose
This very last part of the song
I think it is supposed to mean how our whole life is like a race in which we hope our bet wins!
I find this song beautifully volatile. Every line is almost perpetually ambiguous and every listen brings a new perspective and understanding.
Consciousness vs. Subconsciousness
I like to think that this song is a journey into the brain of the narrator. Most of the song is taking place in a very deep and dark layer of his consciousness, where raw fundamental feelings and only a limited number of words with extremely heavy meaning float around, as the narrator reflects on himself and life. Down here, according to the experiences of the narrator (on drugs or not) it all shifts around to shape the structure of the conscious person on the surface, all happening on one of those ‘Alien Days’
This is the clearest, most conscious part of the narrators thoughts:
those days taught me everything I know how to catch a feeling and when to let it go how all the scheming, soulless creatures can't find dreamer's honey in the hive if it's right beneath the nose
To me this is simply a more defined sense of feeling in the narrator, in which the subconscious ramble seems to take shape as actual conscious revelation. To me this seems to show the narrators’ look on people being of 2 kinds; ‘schemers’ and ‘dreamers’ and how the ‘schemers’ are unable to enjoy their stressful lives like the ‘dreamers’ can. The narrator is definitely a dreamer! ☺
you don't need wings to hover forty ton stones for a mile
This seems to be an early subconscious grasp of the sensation ‘faith can move mountains,’
but here comes racer number 7 watch my fingers ripping out the lines if it looks like we could lose
This very last part of the song I think it is supposed to mean how our whole life is like a race in which we hope our bet wins!
I find this song beautifully volatile. Every line is almost perpetually ambiguous and every listen brings a new perspective and understanding.