I'm not too sure about this one, but I'm pretty sure it's about PTSD (post traumatic stress Disorder) and how it affects veterans when they're back from war.
The first verse goes "Drift all you like""From ocean to ocean""Search the whole world""But drunken confessions""And hijacked affairs""Will just make you more alone" This is explaining how veterans will attempt to escape their trauma even taking extreme measures, but will eventually come to no avail and feel more alone, hence the final verse.
The second verse is talking about how veterans feel arriving home to their families "when you come home" "I'll bake you a cake" "Made of all their eyes" the eyes are the veterans traumas reaching him, even in the safety of his family, and his family has no idea what hes been through. The end of the verse goes "I wish you could see me" "dressed for the kill" "you're my man of war" this is the soldier feeling like hes all alone, and how his family could never imagine him and the atrocities he saw during the war.
The final verse talks about how anything can trigger his PTSD hence the "so unplug your phone" "stop all the taps" these are all noises that could trigger his trauma and the "it all comes flooding back is how he feels remember everything he saw. "From poisoned cloud" "and poisoned dwarf" is how he sees himself I think, no longer himself trapped in a poisoned cloud of memories.
I also think the song name clicks well with this meaning, as well as "yeah the worms will come for you" which is a feeling lots of trauma victims get, the feeling that there are worms or insects in your skin.
I'm not too sure about this one, but I'm pretty sure it's about PTSD (post traumatic stress Disorder) and how it affects veterans when they're back from war.
The first verse goes "Drift all you like""From ocean to ocean""Search the whole world""But drunken confessions""And hijacked affairs""Will just make you more alone" This is explaining how veterans will attempt to escape their trauma even taking extreme measures, but will eventually come to no avail and feel more alone, hence the final verse.
The second verse is talking about how veterans feel arriving home to their families "when you come home" "I'll bake you a cake" "Made of all their eyes" the eyes are the veterans traumas reaching him, even in the safety of his family, and his family has no idea what hes been through. The end of the verse goes "I wish you could see me" "dressed for the kill" "you're my man of war" this is the soldier feeling like hes all alone, and how his family could never imagine him and the atrocities he saw during the war.
The final verse talks about how anything can trigger his PTSD hence the "so unplug your phone" "stop all the taps" these are all noises that could trigger his trauma and the "it all comes flooding back is how he feels remember everything he saw. "From poisoned cloud" "and poisoned dwarf" is how he sees himself I think, no longer himself trapped in a poisoned cloud of memories.
I also think the song name clicks well with this meaning, as well as "yeah the worms will come for you" which is a feeling lots of trauma victims get, the feeling that there are worms or insects in your skin.