This song is about how one's inner demons ruin one's life.
The title of the song refers to an aspect of dream interpretation wherein a dream involving cannibalism symbolizes an aspect of one's life which drains enthusiasm or energy. Hence one's inner demons spoiling one's efforts to live in a particular way.
The singer is telling his demons to unhand himself. Yet he admits that he has played a guilty part, which is to say that he accepts responsibility for his own actions, albeit actions influenced by inner demons.
The singer states he has written a book which shows that at this point in his story is been through things in life and is reflecting back on to them. This book is the story of his life and he will name it something cynical which would seem to him to be fit the nature of the story. The hero of the story kept making the same mistakes, which is the manifestation of the influence of his inner demons. And no matter how badly he wanted to make better decisions and not repeat the same mistakes, he would indeed repeat them. This lack of improvement in regards to these particularly bothersome aspects of the character occurs despite the character having an intellectual understanding of what the more correct behavior pattern would be.
This poor behavior pattern that keeps haunting him causes upsets with people who he would have considered close. It burned his bridges, caused him to drift away, and ultimately made him run away to try to start a new and new places. And even though he tried to leave this all behind, he built the same house on every acre he could find. Which is to say, of course, that even starting a new and a new environment did not eliminate the negative behavior patterns.
He mentions that even if he is a bad person and that his inner demons are truly his own fault that he is also done good things or "paid the man" So he doesn't quite see how he deserves to be a victim of these inner demons.
This song is about how one's inner demons ruin one's life.
The title of the song refers to an aspect of dream interpretation wherein a dream involving cannibalism symbolizes an aspect of one's life which drains enthusiasm or energy. Hence one's inner demons spoiling one's efforts to live in a particular way.
The singer is telling his demons to unhand himself. Yet he admits that he has played a guilty part, which is to say that he accepts responsibility for his own actions, albeit actions influenced by inner demons.
The singer states he has written a book which shows that at this point in his story is been through things in life and is reflecting back on to them. This book is the story of his life and he will name it something cynical which would seem to him to be fit the nature of the story. The hero of the story kept making the same mistakes, which is the manifestation of the influence of his inner demons. And no matter how badly he wanted to make better decisions and not repeat the same mistakes, he would indeed repeat them. This lack of improvement in regards to these particularly bothersome aspects of the character occurs despite the character having an intellectual understanding of what the more correct behavior pattern would be.
This poor behavior pattern that keeps haunting him causes upsets with people who he would have considered close. It burned his bridges, caused him to drift away, and ultimately made him run away to try to start a new and new places. And even though he tried to leave this all behind, he built the same house on every acre he could find. Which is to say, of course, that even starting a new and a new environment did not eliminate the negative behavior patterns.
He mentions that even if he is a bad person and that his inner demons are truly his own fault that he is also done good things or "paid the man" So he doesn't quite see how he deserves to be a victim of these inner demons.
This is merely my personal interpretation.