Obviously the track is not clear. To me I feel that someone has taken solace from a figurative storm inwardly in a breakdown of sorts. They're looking through a box of images [your technicolour heartbeat could relate to colourfull images within a container] and postcards from their past in the hope of avoiding their problems ["save me"], perhaps anticipating a breakdown. The breakdown is inevitable and they destroy this container full of images and postcards with turpentine. The lines following seem to be written as one sentence:
"Tearing through the paper walls of time [the pictures we colelct to remember the past]
With sunset eyes
Telethons, Grand Canyon hearts [different stereotypical images we collect because of our experiences, holidays etc]
You numb your mind
With gloves of white and turpentine [destruction of paintwork with turpentine is quite common]"
"I'm home free" could relate to liberation from problems of keeping your shit together and relishing the thought of finally being free from the shackles that sanity might bring. It represents to me a final yielding to insanity, letting go of the last fragments of sanity.
Again I'm thinking aloud and am by no means an English literature reader, but this is more or less my interpretation of this.
Obviously the track is not clear. To me I feel that someone has taken solace from a figurative storm inwardly in a breakdown of sorts. They're looking through a box of images [your technicolour heartbeat could relate to colourfull images within a container] and postcards from their past in the hope of avoiding their problems ["save me"], perhaps anticipating a breakdown. The breakdown is inevitable and they destroy this container full of images and postcards with turpentine. The lines following seem to be written as one sentence:
"Tearing through the paper walls of time [the pictures we colelct to remember the past] With sunset eyes Telethons, Grand Canyon hearts [different stereotypical images we collect because of our experiences, holidays etc] You numb your mind With gloves of white and turpentine [destruction of paintwork with turpentine is quite common]"
"I'm home free" could relate to liberation from problems of keeping your shit together and relishing the thought of finally being free from the shackles that sanity might bring. It represents to me a final yielding to insanity, letting go of the last fragments of sanity.
Again I'm thinking aloud and am by no means an English literature reader, but this is more or less my interpretation of this.
They're then carted to the asylum.