To me this song can work at both the micro and macro level; it represents either the total destruction of one's identity at the individual level (the culmination of a host of similar themes discussed throughout the album), or the actual apocalypse of the modern world. The song details a sequence of symptoms and clues that lead to the collapsing, or the 'overload'.
The key phrase to me is "they question how the future lies in someone's eyes". When questions of how the future will play out arise, we turn to our leaders and role models, putting our complete faith in others, unaware of the pitfalls that are bound to happen. It reminds me of the T.S. Eliot quote "the world ends.... not with a bang, but with a whimper." The end of the world, or even one man's death, would not be loud and furious, but quiet and unnoticed. It is a slow overload, like a pot of water boiling over.
To me this song can work at both the micro and macro level; it represents either the total destruction of one's identity at the individual level (the culmination of a host of similar themes discussed throughout the album), or the actual apocalypse of the modern world. The song details a sequence of symptoms and clues that lead to the collapsing, or the 'overload'.
The key phrase to me is "they question how the future lies in someone's eyes". When questions of how the future will play out arise, we turn to our leaders and role models, putting our complete faith in others, unaware of the pitfalls that are bound to happen. It reminds me of the T.S. Eliot quote "the world ends.... not with a bang, but with a whimper." The end of the world, or even one man's death, would not be loud and furious, but quiet and unnoticed. It is a slow overload, like a pot of water boiling over.
@degree7 too weak to even recognize...
@degree7 too weak to even recognize...