It is about alienation and escapism, with examples of three kinds of alienation, but which are connected.
The first verse is about alieanation through entertainment. The second, through work and the third, through relationships and romance.
It is about realizing how we escape, more or less unconsciously through these external things, to avoid being in contact with our inner reality (which can be hard to deal with and accept), and how that prevents us from knowing ourselves better and keeps us in this "purgatory" state, when we could reach the "heaven" that awaits after this dealing with that reality that we keep hiding from.
It is about alienation and escapism, with examples of three kinds of alienation, but which are connected.
The first verse is about alieanation through entertainment. The second, through work and the third, through relationships and romance.
It is about realizing how we escape, more or less unconsciously through these external things, to avoid being in contact with our inner reality (which can be hard to deal with and accept), and how that prevents us from knowing ourselves better and keeps us in this "purgatory" state, when we could reach the "heaven" that awaits after this dealing with that reality that we keep hiding from.