It's about a man who considers his own life to be screwed up. He loves to play his piano... It's the only thing that makes 'sense' and it makes him very happy. He's different though. He doesn't fit in along with the rest of the world and he knows it. He uses the metaphor of this humming outside of his apartment that he can't match up. He commits suicide in his bathroom with a prescription overdose later. The rest of the song describes his metaphor.
One of my favorite parts is:
And the ones who seem to fit the best into the chorus never notice there's a song.
And the ones who seem to hear it end up tortured by the chords when they fail to find a way to swing along.
So the people who fit in don't even know how they're doing it. And the ones who don't fit in know that they have to do something to fit in... but they can't do it.
I think it fits well with depression and social anxiety... and probably other mental disorders. Normal people don't even know how easy it is for them to fit in to the world. People with mental disorders can't do it. They want to, but they can't.
It's about a man who considers his own life to be screwed up. He loves to play his piano... It's the only thing that makes 'sense' and it makes him very happy. He's different though. He doesn't fit in along with the rest of the world and he knows it. He uses the metaphor of this humming outside of his apartment that he can't match up. He commits suicide in his bathroom with a prescription overdose later. The rest of the song describes his metaphor.
One of my favorite parts is: And the ones who seem to fit the best into the chorus never notice there's a song. And the ones who seem to hear it end up tortured by the chords when they fail to find a way to swing along.
So the people who fit in don't even know how they're doing it. And the ones who don't fit in know that they have to do something to fit in... but they can't do it.
I think it fits well with depression and social anxiety... and probably other mental disorders. Normal people don't even know how easy it is for them to fit in to the world. People with mental disorders can't do it. They want to, but they can't.