Lyric discussion by EternalTearsOfSorrow 

Cover art for Arcadia lyrics by Smash Into Pieces

This song addresses ideas that are visible to all of us in this day and age — living in the word of technology makes us very close to each other and to our dreams but also extremely lonely and distant. Arcadia is a metaphor to life being a game where everyone feel like they are being controlled by the main player. With a reference to George Orwell’s 1984 “Big brother’s watching” it signifies how trapped one can feel living in the system where things we want seem impossible to reach and how precalculated everything may feel. The song encourages its listeners to go for what they want without compromises despite living in the matrix-like world.

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