Arriving Somewhere But Not Here Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Ra7or 

Cover art for Arriving Somewhere But Not Here lyrics by Porcupine Tree

The best song ever to be ever made.

Arriving Somewhere But Not Here---

Never stop the car on a drive in the dark

Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes Never trust the sound of rain upon a river Rushing through your ears

  1. denial, not using , doubt, choices

  2. he talks about what the usual choices people would do (not do whats always
    been avoided he would naturally choose not to stop a car at night, he was
    taught never to doubt/question his mother, not to believe until we see it, not believe on hearing rumours.

  3. what would have happened if we had chosen otherwise ?? or the other side of us ?

Arriving somewhere but not here

  1. lost, confused, right/wrong.

  2. he is confused about what he have become but is he at the moment at that
    place in life that he was supposed to be ?

  3. Or has he wandered somewhere else ? what is right, which one is wrong ?

Did you imagine the final sound as a gun?

Or the smashing windscreen of a car? Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out was a song?

  1. Imagination, Possibility, death

  2. he tells that he is lucky enough to be alive yet. It was possible he would be
    dead by now by a gun or in a crash, or may be poisoned as he is listening to a song, this
    song maybe.

  3. anything could be possible if your choices were different.

All my designs, simplified

And all of my plans, compromised All of my dreams, sacrificed

  1. conclusion, understanding, neutralised

2, he thinks he is lucky enough to get a second chance, the opportunity to do something what he had not done yet he forgets the earlier mistakes he made in order to look for the correct path, the right choice.

  1. The right choice ? what is right, which one is wrong ?

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Ever had the feeling you've been here before?

Drinking down the poison the way you were taught Every thought from here on in your life begins And all you knew was wrong?

  1. returning, teaching, choices.

  2. he returns again in relation to the 1st phrase, asking what he had been doing was all wrong ? what if he had been taught to make other choice ? (what would have happened if he had stopped the car, what if he had asked her mother the truth behind her smiling face despite the pain she took when he was a child ? What if he had not been so attached to reality ?

  3. what if he had always been choosing wrong ?

Did you see the red mist block your path?

Did the scissors cut a way to your heart? Did you feel the envy for the sons of mothers tearing you apart?

  1. Experienced, learned, felt

  2. He learnt he cannot return to the past, he cannot turn back the choice he made, he cannot turn back time. He questions himself weather he still feels he had made a wrong choice looking at the different choices everyone else had made.

3 a scissor of choices cuts him down every second and he cannot stop it, no one can.

My Interpretation