Sounds to me like the singer is feeling conflicted about their opinion of mainstream culture. They seem to look down on the popular and conventional ("The laughing dying culture pop"), especially television ("The psychotronic talking box \ The mainstream antidepressant"). However, the repeated "Ultra, ultra"* section makes it sounds like their disgust is at odds with a need to belong ("get me in there... get me out"). In the context of songwriting and music production, it could represent the conflicting desires for financial/critical success and artistic uniqueness and creativity, which definitely crops up elsewhere on this album (Cracker).
*It's a very far stretch, but "Ultra" might be a reference to the KMFDM song of the same name. Industrial Metal has always sold better than the weirdness Ogre produces, and while KMFDM are small fry compared to NIN, they still saw a great deal of success about the same time Skinny Puppy fell apart.
Sounds to me like the singer is feeling conflicted about their opinion of mainstream culture. They seem to look down on the popular and conventional ("The laughing dying culture pop"), especially television ("The psychotronic talking box \ The mainstream antidepressant"). However, the repeated "Ultra, ultra"* section makes it sounds like their disgust is at odds with a need to belong ("get me in there... get me out"). In the context of songwriting and music production, it could represent the conflicting desires for financial/critical success and artistic uniqueness and creativity, which definitely crops up elsewhere on this album (Cracker).
*It's a very far stretch, but "Ultra" might be a reference to the KMFDM song of the same name. Industrial Metal has always sold better than the weirdness Ogre produces, and while KMFDM are small fry compared to NIN, they still saw a great deal of success about the same time Skinny Puppy fell apart.