The great thing about lyrics Maynard writes is they don't ever have to mean 1 specific thing and its up to us to take is we want to.
One of the ways i can see it is hes looking up to someone he admires as a role model. Someone he wants to be like aka "Shadow"ing them. But he later realizes that this person isn't who he thought they were at all. It's almost as if he made up a whole person in his mind filling a theoretical body or "Carcass" up with what he wanted this false person to be. Now where he mentions death towards the end of the song to me its just saying since the person he admired so much isn't a living person so his idea of the role model is dead. With the Pied Piper being mentioned in the song as well it makes it easier to relate this to being a child and growing up having a role model weather it be your father or a superhero or anything and following in their footsteps like how the pied piper lead the children away from home. Another take on the song too could be that we are the carcass' because we have followed this "Pied Piper" away from home as in we stopped being who we are to be something or someone else therefore who we really were is no longer us and that person is now just a carcass. These are just thoughts i have while listening to this song. Its just what it means to me : )
The great thing about lyrics Maynard writes is they don't ever have to mean 1 specific thing and its up to us to take is we want to.
One of the ways i can see it is hes looking up to someone he admires as a role model. Someone he wants to be like aka "Shadow"ing them. But he later realizes that this person isn't who he thought they were at all. It's almost as if he made up a whole person in his mind filling a theoretical body or "Carcass" up with what he wanted this false person to be. Now where he mentions death towards the end of the song to me its just saying since the person he admired so much isn't a living person so his idea of the role model is dead. With the Pied Piper being mentioned in the song as well it makes it easier to relate this to being a child and growing up having a role model weather it be your father or a superhero or anything and following in their footsteps like how the pied piper lead the children away from home. Another take on the song too could be that we are the carcass' because we have followed this "Pied Piper" away from home as in we stopped being who we are to be something or someone else therefore who we really were is no longer us and that person is now just a carcass. These are just thoughts i have while listening to this song. Its just what it means to me : )