Songs with imagery and metaphor are really about all of us-- the listener and how we hear the lyrics.
This song has basketball imagery, but all the stage fright / lightshow imagery makes this song seem like it's coming from a place of personal experience. The triangles on the floor and electric fans on the west (stage "west" or audience "west?" "Page side?" "Mike Side? are probably live show images -- spinning triangles of light moving across the floor are pretty common lighting effects.
So for me, stepping to the line is going out on stage, facing the future with sobriety, with fear, and with excitement. The song that follows, Devotion to a Dream, carries on this theme.
Songs with imagery and metaphor are really about all of us-- the listener and how we hear the lyrics.
This song has basketball imagery, but all the stage fright / lightshow imagery makes this song seem like it's coming from a place of personal experience. The triangles on the floor and electric fans on the west (stage "west" or audience "west?" "Page side?" "Mike Side? are probably live show images -- spinning triangles of light moving across the floor are pretty common lighting effects.
So for me, stepping to the line is going out on stage, facing the future with sobriety, with fear, and with excitement. The song that follows, Devotion to a Dream, carries on this theme.