I think he is comparing himself to the house that is falling apart. He compares the paint peeling to flesh decaying and the hallways to his bones. To me, this song is about getting so caught up in your problems and unhappiness that you let everything else in your life go to shit. The ghost stutter stepping is like how we feel our demons haunting us, ever inching closer but always out of reach, and our reaction is to hope it goes away.
Here he is just trying to ignore his problems or bury them to protect himself:
"Always colliding with the things that
we had tried hard to avoid
we just bury them, close our eyes, cover it up.
But what was buried managed to unlock the door
even though we had boarded them, nailed them shut,
hid the keys."
Here he sees all the paint has fallen off the walls (showing his life falling apart) and he asks if this happened due to neglect when he was focusing on his flaws, deep in insecurity. Then he says that while he is caught up in his problems, he has decayed even further and isn't really living anymore (because the vultures are waiting for him to die).:
"It feels like our time is getting short.
And it's too late cause all the paint is lying on the floor.
Did we selfishly erase it?
(And we have all ignored the fault.)
Busy filling mirrors with our damn faces?
Circling flaws that we find without respite,
what do we find? What do we find?
And in the meantime, all the vultures
circle us in hopes to feed."
So basically, don't get so deep into your head worrying about everything because you wont notice everything else falling apart around you, and you'll essentially stop living. Constantly worrying about past mistakes will wear you down and make you forget what life is really about, and what the future can hold for you.
I think he is comparing himself to the house that is falling apart. He compares the paint peeling to flesh decaying and the hallways to his bones. To me, this song is about getting so caught up in your problems and unhappiness that you let everything else in your life go to shit. The ghost stutter stepping is like how we feel our demons haunting us, ever inching closer but always out of reach, and our reaction is to hope it goes away.
Here he is just trying to ignore his problems or bury them to protect himself: "Always colliding with the things that we had tried hard to avoid we just bury them, close our eyes, cover it up. But what was buried managed to unlock the door even though we had boarded them, nailed them shut, hid the keys."
Here he sees all the paint has fallen off the walls (showing his life falling apart) and he asks if this happened due to neglect when he was focusing on his flaws, deep in insecurity. Then he says that while he is caught up in his problems, he has decayed even further and isn't really living anymore (because the vultures are waiting for him to die).: "It feels like our time is getting short. And it's too late cause all the paint is lying on the floor. Did we selfishly erase it? (And we have all ignored the fault.) Busy filling mirrors with our damn faces? Circling flaws that we find without respite, what do we find? What do we find? And in the meantime, all the vultures circle us in hopes to feed."
So basically, don't get so deep into your head worrying about everything because you wont notice everything else falling apart around you, and you'll essentially stop living. Constantly worrying about past mistakes will wear you down and make you forget what life is really about, and what the future can hold for you.