The basis of the Wicked Trilogy album is about music composer dubbed The Scarecrow (Tobias Sammet) slowly going insane. His insanity births Mephistopheles (Jorn Lande) in his mind, and he falls into depression after being rejected by his unrequited love (Amanda Somerville). Tobi wrote this trilogy so The Scarecrows teeters between reality and illusions; that line being clearer in some songs more than others.
This song is about The Scarecrow listening to Mephistopheles and deciding to fall into addiction to escape his pain. This is explained in lines like:
"Even better gotta get away, get away
Time to pick my poison".
The "runaway train" is meant to represent how The Scarecrow is ready to give up his self-control and spiral out of control in order to drown everything out. Lines such as:
"Take a train to ecstasy"
"If coming back would hurt my pride,
I'd rather take another ride"
"If I'll awake in pain one day,
I've gotta catch just one more train"
As well as the chorus, further reinforce this analogy.
While it's unclear if the Mentor is real or a hallucination, his lines talk about how one day The Scarecrow will sober up and realize all the horrible things he's done, and once that happens he'll "scream repenting".
The basis of the Wicked Trilogy album is about music composer dubbed The Scarecrow (Tobias Sammet) slowly going insane. His insanity births Mephistopheles (Jorn Lande) in his mind, and he falls into depression after being rejected by his unrequited love (Amanda Somerville). Tobi wrote this trilogy so The Scarecrows teeters between reality and illusions; that line being clearer in some songs more than others.
This song is about The Scarecrow listening to Mephistopheles and deciding to fall into addiction to escape his pain. This is explained in lines like:
The "runaway train" is meant to represent how The Scarecrow is ready to give up his self-control and spiral out of control in order to drown everything out. Lines such as:
"Take a train to ecstasy"
"If coming back would hurt my pride, I'd rather take another ride"
"If I'll awake in pain one day, I've gotta catch just one more train"
As well as the chorus, further reinforce this analogy.
While it's unclear if the Mentor is real or a hallucination, his lines talk about how one day The Scarecrow will sober up and realize all the horrible things he's done, and once that happens he'll "scream repenting".