Just throwing my own thoughts about this song into the void. I tend to think of this song a lot all the time and here's what I've come up with...
The song's title suggests to me that Doug see's his world as Distopian and it's about a girl that saves him from it. He opens up with a question and a description of his world. I'm guessing here that he thinks about reality a lot. As if "We are on a ride" just going through the motions. He then declares that we are always on this ride, clarifying that it happens at the front of your mind. This establishes the reality that we are all stuck with.
Then the song takes to the Bowie vignette (Full disclosure, I found that word, vignette, in the comments here and stole it <3) where we get a look at his 'critical thinking' in action. I mostly agree with others interpreting a rebellious intent with his thought process here.
"A more empathetic person might understand why someone with an uncanny resemblance to Bowie might get a little irked at having this pointed out repeatedly, and cut the guy some slack on matters of taste." This comment said here earlier made me think it's meant to expose the writer's own mundane little flaws in thought. In other words he's admitting he's flawed and nothing special just like the rest of us through this vignette.
"Without me there's nothing" There is no ride without the rider. "I'm the only thing that dies" He sees himself as the beginning and end to it all.
This song is about your dream girl, the one you won't let go of no matter what. He is discussing the paradox of choosing to live with an emotional creature over the selfish logic of a better life elsewhere.
I take the lyrics "I would do the stupid thing" to mean a different thing than most. I think that he knows that leaving this girl would completely ruin her, possibly even cause her to end her life. I interpret this dream girl to be a cliche super obsessive romantic type who lives a more emotional rather than logical life. Someone "Full of what she said" who upon later reinterpretation "thought of it differently."
The "dream girl" changes her thoughts to her moods and this tends to drive more logical minded thinkers crazy. I think Doug feels the same way, "Just the thought of it's enough To penetrate my comfort zone."
Yet he still chooses to "do the stupid thing" and continue to be with this woman. To leave her would be to ruin her life and it's crazy to keep living with her but wouldn't you do that for your dream girl? I think the song is about the revelation that you will one day dismiss logic for your own dream girl (or guy) in life. In choosing to be with her through the tough times instead of walking out on her, he decides to let the dream girl keep on living.
To let her go is to let her die so to be with her is to let her keep on living, yet life with her is a Distopia.
Just throwing my own thoughts about this song into the void. I tend to think of this song a lot all the time and here's what I've come up with...
The song's title suggests to me that Doug see's his world as Distopian and it's about a girl that saves him from it. He opens up with a question and a description of his world. I'm guessing here that he thinks about reality a lot. As if "We are on a ride" just going through the motions. He then declares that we are always on this ride, clarifying that it happens at the front of your mind. This establishes the reality that we are all stuck with.
Then the song takes to the Bowie vignette (Full disclosure, I found that word, vignette, in the comments here and stole it <3) where we get a look at his 'critical thinking' in action. I mostly agree with others interpreting a rebellious intent with his thought process here.
"A more empathetic person might understand why someone with an uncanny resemblance to Bowie might get a little irked at having this pointed out repeatedly, and cut the guy some slack on matters of taste." This comment said here earlier made me think it's meant to expose the writer's own mundane little flaws in thought. In other words he's admitting he's flawed and nothing special just like the rest of us through this vignette.
"Without me there's nothing" There is no ride without the rider. "I'm the only thing that dies" He sees himself as the beginning and end to it all.
This song is about your dream girl, the one you won't let go of no matter what. He is discussing the paradox of choosing to live with an emotional creature over the selfish logic of a better life elsewhere.
I take the lyrics "I would do the stupid thing" to mean a different thing than most. I think that he knows that leaving this girl would completely ruin her, possibly even cause her to end her life. I interpret this dream girl to be a cliche super obsessive romantic type who lives a more emotional rather than logical life. Someone "Full of what she said" who upon later reinterpretation "thought of it differently."
The "dream girl" changes her thoughts to her moods and this tends to drive more logical minded thinkers crazy. I think Doug feels the same way, "Just the thought of it's enough To penetrate my comfort zone."
Yet he still chooses to "do the stupid thing" and continue to be with this woman. To leave her would be to ruin her life and it's crazy to keep living with her but wouldn't you do that for your dream girl? I think the song is about the revelation that you will one day dismiss logic for your own dream girl (or guy) in life. In choosing to be with her through the tough times instead of walking out on her, he decides to let the dream girl keep on living.
To let her go is to let her die so to be with her is to let her keep on living, yet life with her is a Distopia.