This song is actually super cryptic. It's a double metaphor.
Basically it's about how there is a better way for us to do things and how we have been forced into the worse way by the system we are too unaware of to even deny after our birth. The second part to the meaning is that our undeveloped minds enslave us to the hazard of limitations and incoherence until we figure out the better way of doing things. These two principles are fractals for the many different things we have to overcome in order to break free from the inner prison so that we can attain the consciousness and enlightenment required to understand that there is a better way we can go which is the path of freedom. You can't find that path unless you first realize that there is a prison inside the mind that makes us all prisoners to thoughts we must leave behind. This is what the lines and dragging your feet symbolize. The slower path to where we are all moving towards and also serving time like a prisoner for something you could have avoided.
The hook line has got to be the all time greatest hook line in a song ever written in history. Because the truth bomb is so unbelievably profound. Only those who understand the freedom we have that we quickly relinquish from birth know what I'm talking about. In my opinion this is the best written song of incubus lyrics wise. A master piece along with nice to know you. Off their best album make yourself. And this is the first track for a good reason. It essentially summaries the theme of every other track on the album. They are all different hindrances that this system makes us go through which we have the privilege from birth to change and turn from a curse/hindrance into a blessing/power. Why? Because authority is our privileged. Authority over so many things people are unaware they have authority to control because they are unaware they are prisoners to it. They don't know there is a backdoor to avoid the line hehe.
This song is actually super cryptic. It's a double metaphor.
Basically it's about how there is a better way for us to do things and how we have been forced into the worse way by the system we are too unaware of to even deny after our birth. The second part to the meaning is that our undeveloped minds enslave us to the hazard of limitations and incoherence until we figure out the better way of doing things. These two principles are fractals for the many different things we have to overcome in order to break free from the inner prison so that we can attain the consciousness and enlightenment required to understand that there is a better way we can go which is the path of freedom. You can't find that path unless you first realize that there is a prison inside the mind that makes us all prisoners to thoughts we must leave behind. This is what the lines and dragging your feet symbolize. The slower path to where we are all moving towards and also serving time like a prisoner for something you could have avoided.
The hook line has got to be the all time greatest hook line in a song ever written in history. Because the truth bomb is so unbelievably profound. Only those who understand the freedom we have that we quickly relinquish from birth know what I'm talking about. In my opinion this is the best written song of incubus lyrics wise. A master piece along with nice to know you. Off their best album make yourself. And this is the first track for a good reason. It essentially summaries the theme of every other track on the album. They are all different hindrances that this system makes us go through which we have the privilege from birth to change and turn from a curse/hindrance into a blessing/power. Why? Because authority is our privileged. Authority over so many things people are unaware they have authority to control because they are unaware they are prisoners to it. They don't know there is a backdoor to avoid the line hehe.