It's clearly about dating a girl at a carnival while on smack, and there is more than that in the details, but rather hard to figure out. Seems a very personal song about a particular situation.
The motif of the song is "what in the world can it be" / "it's as strange as I've ever seen" / "I'm gonna find it all out" / "Where in the world have you been"
So probably he is wondering and meditating over the reasons of a break-up or her being upset/distant, something that is strange and consuming for him but she refuses to communicate. He also has a hunch that it all may be related to him using (turning your back to the ghost/you just might know that all of the good that you've seen went down into the drain)
And then what makes the song really strange and hard to understand are the repeating elements which make it impossible to place the events in a chronological order and give the whole song an eerie feeling in tone with the carnie atmosphere/time is a flat circle kind of thing, cause it starts with something that might as well be the end or the intrigue (where in the world have you been) and then the girls and the return the freakshow.
I would love to hear more inputs, anyway, amazing song with such a unique atmosphere, it really pulls you into that world.
It's clearly about dating a girl at a carnival while on smack, and there is more than that in the details, but rather hard to figure out. Seems a very personal song about a particular situation.
The motif of the song is "what in the world can it be" / "it's as strange as I've ever seen" / "I'm gonna find it all out" / "Where in the world have you been"
So probably he is wondering and meditating over the reasons of a break-up or her being upset/distant, something that is strange and consuming for him but she refuses to communicate. He also has a hunch that it all may be related to him using (turning your back to the ghost/you just might know that all of the good that you've seen went down into the drain)
And then what makes the song really strange and hard to understand are the repeating elements which make it impossible to place the events in a chronological order and give the whole song an eerie feeling in tone with the carnie atmosphere/time is a flat circle kind of thing, cause it starts with something that might as well be the end or the intrigue (where in the world have you been) and then the girls and the return the freakshow.
I would love to hear more inputs, anyway, amazing song with such a unique atmosphere, it really pulls you into that world.