It's about the way music and art can inspire people, and how songs can exist separately from their creators.
Our words move aimlessly through
Empty city squares
Collecting into mobs and
Angry like their prayers
This refers to a song - "our words" - which has gotten popular and maybe been taken up as a sort of anthem for a group or cause.
They breathe the air we
Fought to leave behind
The artist has had experiences, including some bad ones, and now that they are over he's written songs about them. People discovering his music, probably younger people, enjoy hearing about these experiences and often romanticize them.
The "blank adventure" refers to the way a song or piece of art can be interpreted in many different ways. The artist's music is a blank slate of words for his audience to see their own thoughts and adventures written on.
I'm not too sure about the second verse, though "We fought to find our thoughts" is probably meaningful (the NP can be so cryptic sometimes!), but "Claims of the crown forgotten" means that he's stopped trying to claim his intentions when writing the song as the best or true interpretation, if indeed he ever did.
Finally, "Miss Teen Wordpower" and "nobody knows the wreck of the soul the way you do." These are essentially the reason why his songs are popular - they talk about the suffering and experiences that people go through better than the people themselves can explain. The audience feels as though he is speaking from their own souls, in a way, so they love his songs and claim them for their own.
It's about the way music and art can inspire people, and how songs can exist separately from their creators.
This refers to a song - "our words" - which has gotten popular and maybe been taken up as a sort of anthem for a group or cause.
The artist has had experiences, including some bad ones, and now that they are over he's written songs about them. People discovering his music, probably younger people, enjoy hearing about these experiences and often romanticize them.
The "blank adventure" refers to the way a song or piece of art can be interpreted in many different ways. The artist's music is a blank slate of words for his audience to see their own thoughts and adventures written on.
I'm not too sure about the second verse, though "We fought to find our thoughts" is probably meaningful (the NP can be so cryptic sometimes!), but "Claims of the crown forgotten" means that he's stopped trying to claim his intentions when writing the song as the best or true interpretation, if indeed he ever did.
Finally, "Miss Teen Wordpower" and "nobody knows the wreck of the soul the way you do." These are essentially the reason why his songs are popular - they talk about the suffering and experiences that people go through better than the people themselves can explain. The audience feels as though he is speaking from their own souls, in a way, so they love his songs and claim them for their own.