the meaning of this song's always been pretty obvious to me, but i could be wrong. imho, it's about running from memories you regret, and keeping them secret. the lyrics are sparse, but clear: "all you can't hide", "in the past of it", "just falling out" etc., are clear markers that this song is about the weight of secrets. the message? keeping them is futile, because in the end you can't change the truth of your mistakes.
also worth noting is that the lyrics put so much emphasis on that one "hongkongatoooon" like it's some sort of harbinger of doom or something...my mind personally likens it to a godzilla-like figure, but i dunno. the point is, 'hongkongaton' (which is probably a mockup of some kaiju movie) is actually just the secrets themselves, which we give so much importance that they gain mass and become monsters in their own right. then there's "not making much of anything at all" which stands in stark contrast with the other lyrics, and the music itself. the rhythm and instrumental choice makes the whole thing to a monster's footsteps crashing down, slow and heavy, foretelling destruction. but that line...it's so flagrantly dismissive, like "the past is the past, it has no real impact on the present".
in short, it's a song cluttered with cognitive dissonance and catastrophizing, hammed up by it's likeness to a monster, except maybe the monster is really just a man in a suit who became his own monster...and the kissing at the beginning fades into all this makes me think the "secret" is that they're having an affair lol.
the meaning of this song's always been pretty obvious to me, but i could be wrong. imho, it's about running from memories you regret, and keeping them secret. the lyrics are sparse, but clear: "all you can't hide", "in the past of it", "just falling out" etc., are clear markers that this song is about the weight of secrets. the message? keeping them is futile, because in the end you can't change the truth of your mistakes.
also worth noting is that the lyrics put so much emphasis on that one "hongkongatoooon" like it's some sort of harbinger of doom or something...my mind personally likens it to a godzilla-like figure, but i dunno. the point is, 'hongkongaton' (which is probably a mockup of some kaiju movie) is actually just the secrets themselves, which we give so much importance that they gain mass and become monsters in their own right. then there's "not making much of anything at all" which stands in stark contrast with the other lyrics, and the music itself. the rhythm and instrumental choice makes the whole thing to a monster's footsteps crashing down, slow and heavy, foretelling destruction. but that line...it's so flagrantly dismissive, like "the past is the past, it has no real impact on the present".
in short, it's a song cluttered with cognitive dissonance and catastrophizing, hammed up by it's likeness to a monster, except maybe the monster is really just a man in a suit who became his own monster...and the kissing at the beginning fades into all this makes me think the "secret" is that they're having an affair lol.
so yeah. that's my take.