Lyric discussion by bambang110 

Cover art for Stealing Tomorrow lyrics by Great Lake Swimmers

This song is about the experience of taking psychoactive drugs (most likely LSD) and having a bad trip out of it. Some of the lines that alludes to this interpretation are:

  1. "Everything become more true the more I believe in you" (One of the most recurring effect of a bad trip is intense paranoia, in which the subject believes that their perception of reality is the absolute truth and refuses anything that says otherwise)

  2. "And I built this wall around me, I refuse to let anyone through" (A person who is experiencing a bad LSD trip is prone to self-isolation, a side effect of the paranoia mentioned above)

  3. "And it's like someone else is driving. Like this body isn't mine" (Need I say more?)

  4. "I cannot turn it off, don't have the switch for that" (The subject could not handle the trip but is unable to stop it at will)

  5. "We haven't crash landed yet" (The subject has yet to come down from his trip at this point)

The line "Stealing Tomorrow" is ambigous at best, but it can be interpreted as how someone rob themselves of their tomorrow by taking said drugs today (hence "stealing tomorrow from today")