I've been reading interpretations here for ages, but this is my very first own.
I believe this song is about what it's like to be a millennial, which is kinda like a disease. I mean, our generation is all about being connected but not present, this is why our capacity of focusing is so limited.
It is a fact that our society of consumption plays with our needs by introducing us to new products and habits that touch an inner deeper space of ourselves. That's why new ways of life are so identifiable, kind like "a lost bond... an old friend who likes what it sees".
When they sing about pain in a beautiful package "pain in a dress too revealing", it makes me think about how our limitations are played by the media and big companies that sells us the promise of completeness, so, face them is just too painful.
I also feel like all of the symptoms of being a millennial are sung in this song, just cause there are things that we can't really put into words, just feel or express with a sigh, art or any other form of language.
It seems that the need for imediate impact is so carved inside that when it doesn't come quickly enough we get to be too hard on ourselves, forgetting that we are only human. "floating impatience, snuffs my limited sapience..."
Then Andrew simply describes my nights when my head is so full with information that I can't seem to close my eyes and go to sleep just going through the feed on instagram, tumblr or netflix. That's when i just feel exhausted but can't seem to rest, just like a Walking Dead....
"Consumed by a weakness
Cut with perpetual unrest
You see stars, sunsets blurred through a screen,
Trap what you want, waste what you need""
I just haven't been able to produce meaning to the last paragraph, the one that touches me the most. I guess that's another thing about being a millennial: not seeing what's right in front of us.
I've been reading interpretations here for ages, but this is my very first own.
I believe this song is about what it's like to be a millennial, which is kinda like a disease. I mean, our generation is all about being connected but not present, this is why our capacity of focusing is so limited.
It is a fact that our society of consumption plays with our needs by introducing us to new products and habits that touch an inner deeper space of ourselves. That's why new ways of life are so identifiable, kind like "a lost bond... an old friend who likes what it sees".
When they sing about pain in a beautiful package "pain in a dress too revealing", it makes me think about how our limitations are played by the media and big companies that sells us the promise of completeness, so, face them is just too painful.
I also feel like all of the symptoms of being a millennial are sung in this song, just cause there are things that we can't really put into words, just feel or express with a sigh, art or any other form of language.
It seems that the need for imediate impact is so carved inside that when it doesn't come quickly enough we get to be too hard on ourselves, forgetting that we are only human. "floating impatience, snuffs my limited sapience..."
Then Andrew simply describes my nights when my head is so full with information that I can't seem to close my eyes and go to sleep just going through the feed on instagram, tumblr or netflix. That's when i just feel exhausted but can't seem to rest, just like a Walking Dead....
"Consumed by a weakness Cut with perpetual unrest You see stars, sunsets blurred through a screen, Trap what you want, waste what you need""
I just haven't been able to produce meaning to the last paragraph, the one that touches me the most. I guess that's another thing about being a millennial: not seeing what's right in front of us.