I think this song is about the young living in crippling debt in the pursuit
of idealistic monetary wealth. A pursuit that has been sold to us by popular
culture and the generation before us.
Lines like "too far gone in our heads," and "we had done all we've been told," reason that this financial pursuit is firmly rooted in our belief system and planted by those who held influence over us.
We all live and work in the red. In the red, in financial terms, is the color of losses or debt.
Ultimately our tastes are suited by being in debt (depicted as a failure) and we will go to the grave empty handed and cold.
If you apply the idea that the youth are in debt because of the commercial lifestyle that they have been told to pursue you can reason out most of the other lyrics for yourself.
I think this song is about the young living in crippling debt in the pursuit of idealistic monetary wealth. A pursuit that has been sold to us by popular culture and the generation before us.
Lines like "too far gone in our heads," and "we had done all we've been told," reason that this financial pursuit is firmly rooted in our belief system and planted by those who held influence over us.
We all live and work in the red. In the red, in financial terms, is the color of losses or debt.
Ultimately our tastes are suited by being in debt (depicted as a failure) and we will go to the grave empty handed and cold.
If you apply the idea that the youth are in debt because of the commercial lifestyle that they have been told to pursue you can reason out most of the other lyrics for yourself.