Ill start by saying this is my favorite album ever produced and Brian has said the two things that inspired this album were the nostalgia of being in his hometown and the want to create a horror movie atmosphere.
A lot of my interpretation comes from his tone while singing as well
"I heart metal, I heart wine"
Hes getting over something, drowning his sorrows in alcohol and aggressive music
"The woods that scare me, saved my life"'
Along with the metal and the wine, he goes into the woods to try and take his mind off of his internal sorrows by distracting him with the danger of the woods
"Lesson learned after twice, the trees are blinking bright, shake in the rhythmic light"
But hes done this at least twice before and he's found comfort in the woods, there is a surreal beauty to the woods
"Never felt anything like, the cold of these empty spaces"
This beauty doesn't last because he goes back to his sorrow and isolation and the woods just become a large empty space
"Fog from bottles, end of light, dont start making gears grind"
As he looks back through the fog into the past, at the point where he lost his light, he wishes he could have stopped himself from letting it fall apart (as things do when gears start grinding)
"The backroad findings, could change my mind"
He feels perhaps he could find some solace if he moved back to society
"If I could just slow down, and scribble on missing pages, who would I write it for, and who would write it for me"
Here he reveals that he is depressed because somebody (probably his significant other) left him, he has nobody to talk to and nobody to talk back to him. He wishes he could just slow down and explain why he "grinded the gears" to them but you cant write in a book if there are no pages
"Some people wait just for a little bit, why cant I wait just for a little bit"
It sounds to me like he tried to have sex with or propose marriage to this person too quickly and she rejected him - hence grinding the gears and breaking down the machine of their relationship
The song then repeats yet more intensely as maybe he sobers and he repeats lines which I find could have some double meanings
"If I could just slow down"
slow down his thoughts and emotions and begin to move forward
"Busy bees dont really fly"
Life lesson:
The negative. If you rush into things there is a good chance of those things falling apart
or
The positive. Slow your pace and enjoy life and what youve got, dont get too greedy
@SoapManpv WOW ???? This is my go to song when Ive hit my limit that actually pin point all my past trauma, but it's seen so clearly and even understood that I cant change it. But yet my mind is still stuck in that on going loop. Me/my mind haven't left year 2007 but in 2007 my mind was still in 1999 and in 1999 my mind was still in 1993. And I know all the events that occurred in all those years and 2007 is also associated with 2005 so 5 and 7 is the changing point from 99....
@SoapManpv WOW ???? This is my go to song when Ive hit my limit that actually pin point all my past trauma, but it's seen so clearly and even understood that I cant change it. But yet my mind is still stuck in that on going loop. Me/my mind haven't left year 2007 but in 2007 my mind was still in 1999 and in 1999 my mind was still in 1993. And I know all the events that occurred in all those years and 2007 is also associated with 2005 so 5 and 7 is the changing point from 99. I can't seem to break out of this. As if it's something that I shouldn't forget but it still leaves me depressed. I get on a good run in life, great job, friend, relationship, no financial worries at all to just out the blue i quit everything and start soaking in past things that I cannot change and I know this. It's every 4 years this happens to me on that scale. But everyone are RushinS so I always have to make myself appear fine. I've been looking for the pages to write on but they are rare and they always disappear if not seen by the ones it's ment for and I'll have to go on that search again. But hey a 2013 post is a fair start atleast I'm moving forward lol. I am a living embodyment of Rusted Wheel btw. I fought if any one reads this but comment would be nice.
Ill start by saying this is my favorite album ever produced and Brian has said the two things that inspired this album were the nostalgia of being in his hometown and the want to create a horror movie atmosphere. A lot of my interpretation comes from his tone while singing as well
"I heart metal, I heart wine" Hes getting over something, drowning his sorrows in alcohol and aggressive music
"The woods that scare me, saved my life"' Along with the metal and the wine, he goes into the woods to try and take his mind off of his internal sorrows by distracting him with the danger of the woods
"Lesson learned after twice, the trees are blinking bright, shake in the rhythmic light" But hes done this at least twice before and he's found comfort in the woods, there is a surreal beauty to the woods
"Never felt anything like, the cold of these empty spaces" This beauty doesn't last because he goes back to his sorrow and isolation and the woods just become a large empty space
"Fog from bottles, end of light, dont start making gears grind" As he looks back through the fog into the past, at the point where he lost his light, he wishes he could have stopped himself from letting it fall apart (as things do when gears start grinding)
"The backroad findings, could change my mind" He feels perhaps he could find some solace if he moved back to society
"If I could just slow down, and scribble on missing pages, who would I write it for, and who would write it for me" Here he reveals that he is depressed because somebody (probably his significant other) left him, he has nobody to talk to and nobody to talk back to him. He wishes he could just slow down and explain why he "grinded the gears" to them but you cant write in a book if there are no pages
"Some people wait just for a little bit, why cant I wait just for a little bit" It sounds to me like he tried to have sex with or propose marriage to this person too quickly and she rejected him - hence grinding the gears and breaking down the machine of their relationship
The song then repeats yet more intensely as maybe he sobers and he repeats lines which I find could have some double meanings
"If I could just slow down" slow down his thoughts and emotions and begin to move forward
"Busy bees dont really fly" Life lesson: The negative. If you rush into things there is a good chance of those things falling apart or The positive. Slow your pace and enjoy life and what youve got, dont get too greedy
@SoapManpv WOW ???? This is my go to song when Ive hit my limit that actually pin point all my past trauma, but it's seen so clearly and even understood that I cant change it. But yet my mind is still stuck in that on going loop. Me/my mind haven't left year 2007 but in 2007 my mind was still in 1999 and in 1999 my mind was still in 1993. And I know all the events that occurred in all those years and 2007 is also associated with 2005 so 5 and 7 is the changing point from 99....
@SoapManpv WOW ???? This is my go to song when Ive hit my limit that actually pin point all my past trauma, but it's seen so clearly and even understood that I cant change it. But yet my mind is still stuck in that on going loop. Me/my mind haven't left year 2007 but in 2007 my mind was still in 1999 and in 1999 my mind was still in 1993. And I know all the events that occurred in all those years and 2007 is also associated with 2005 so 5 and 7 is the changing point from 99. I can't seem to break out of this. As if it's something that I shouldn't forget but it still leaves me depressed. I get on a good run in life, great job, friend, relationship, no financial worries at all to just out the blue i quit everything and start soaking in past things that I cannot change and I know this. It's every 4 years this happens to me on that scale. But everyone are RushinS so I always have to make myself appear fine. I've been looking for the pages to write on but they are rare and they always disappear if not seen by the ones it's ment for and I'll have to go on that search again. But hey a 2013 post is a fair start atleast I'm moving forward lol. I am a living embodyment of Rusted Wheel btw. I fought if any one reads this but comment would be nice.