Reading all the comments and comparing it to my own interpretation, it seems clear to me. I also listened to this several times with headphones on and you can hear a lot more of the subtle sounds and pronunciations.
This song is about a battle over the authors soul against a constant demonic attack, (literal or figuratively). The demonic source could be a metaphor for drugs, or a sinful lifestyle, but it is worded as if these things took on a demonic form of their own, or are actual literal demons. The song is written from the words of a "we" entity, which demons are known to attack as a legion.
They are enticing him to, "be dragged to where he belongs" on the darker side. They try to comfort him by telling him, "theres nothing to fear". It could possibly be the other voice fighting to keep him from the other side, saying, "when you tried to escape, we'll be holding on". But the second male/female verse confirms that this is indeed another manifestation of the demonic voices.
In fact they are the pain in his life that he is trying to escape, (through extacy and/or clubbing) but they hold on, always dragging him back in the form of renewed memory of his pain or through the emotional crash after an Ex, high.
The second verse, "we are in your spirit, we're everywhere you turn, from the cover to cover. In lover, to your brother, to your mother, in the others." alludes to the hopelessness of trying to escape his personal demons. Voices and reminders are everywhere, and inescapable. They say, "you were so precious, a diamond in the rough. But now you've gone away. I'm falling apart under the waves." is the voices claiming victory over his soul. They have taken his precious heart and dragged it into hell. The shift is coming down from happiness to the hell of his his past/current life/destiny.
The tortures in his heart force him to get the words onto paper and write this dark song. "And I can't sleep until this is done." Sadness and dispair have spurned him into getting his thoughts out, to write this song, for the good of mankind or to the ill. For the victory of his demons or for their defeat.
These are very angst driven songs. Theories that this is about big music business come from the lyrical interpretation, "But I can't sleep from the Big System". But if you have experienced the pain of a tortured soul, or the slough of an Ex crash, and if you listen carefully to the enunciation in the lyrics, the meaning is clear.
Other songs by Pendulum are about being plagued by ones past. Either of longing for a lost love or guilt of a wrong decision in life. They illustrate the tortured soul like few others and I identify with the spiritually dark tone of their music.
Reading all the comments and comparing it to my own interpretation, it seems clear to me. I also listened to this several times with headphones on and you can hear a lot more of the subtle sounds and pronunciations.
This song is about a battle over the authors soul against a constant demonic attack, (literal or figuratively). The demonic source could be a metaphor for drugs, or a sinful lifestyle, but it is worded as if these things took on a demonic form of their own, or are actual literal demons. The song is written from the words of a "we" entity, which demons are known to attack as a legion.
They are enticing him to, "be dragged to where he belongs" on the darker side. They try to comfort him by telling him, "theres nothing to fear". It could possibly be the other voice fighting to keep him from the other side, saying, "when you tried to escape, we'll be holding on". But the second male/female verse confirms that this is indeed another manifestation of the demonic voices.
In fact they are the pain in his life that he is trying to escape, (through extacy and/or clubbing) but they hold on, always dragging him back in the form of renewed memory of his pain or through the emotional crash after an Ex, high.
The second verse, "we are in your spirit, we're everywhere you turn, from the cover to cover. In lover, to your brother, to your mother, in the others." alludes to the hopelessness of trying to escape his personal demons. Voices and reminders are everywhere, and inescapable. They say, "you were so precious, a diamond in the rough. But now you've gone away. I'm falling apart under the waves." is the voices claiming victory over his soul. They have taken his precious heart and dragged it into hell. The shift is coming down from happiness to the hell of his his past/current life/destiny.
The tortures in his heart force him to get the words onto paper and write this dark song. "And I can't sleep until this is done." Sadness and dispair have spurned him into getting his thoughts out, to write this song, for the good of mankind or to the ill. For the victory of his demons or for their defeat.
These are very angst driven songs. Theories that this is about big music business come from the lyrical interpretation, "But I can't sleep from the Big System". But if you have experienced the pain of a tortured soul, or the slough of an Ex crash, and if you listen carefully to the enunciation in the lyrics, the meaning is clear.
Other songs by Pendulum are about being plagued by ones past. Either of longing for a lost love or guilt of a wrong decision in life. They illustrate the tortured soul like few others and I identify with the spiritually dark tone of their music.