Stuffocation
It's about people trying to cram 'experiences' in to their life, filling every bit of their head with things they've read, filling their dreams with movies they've watched, turning up the volume to the max to fill our ears with songs, filling their house with crap they've bought. Working hard to fill our lives with shit we don't need, but we're convinced we need.
And the thing that matters, our hearts, are filled with stuff we'll never start - I think that means our hearts are full of emptiness. For example, Dads not spending time with their kids cause they are too busy working to pay for more shit.
At the end of the music video the play in front of a sign displaying "Everything Now" and they burn it down at night. The end of the song implies to me that all our stuff is shit and it needs to be burned to the ground.
But maybe it means if you burn down all your stuff, and that's all you've worked on then you'll have nothing but blackness. In which case you're trapped, you need to burn it down but you can't. The last paragraph is enigmatic.
I was married to a hoarder. The house got filled up with more and more crap. Nothing could be thrown away. She kept buying more stuff all the time. She was always busy doing shit that didn't matter. I just wanted to go for a walk together or sit in the park but we never did. I felt engulfed/suffocated by all the shit everywhere. I couldn't burn it all down - that doesn't work in real life. But I got out, which was like burning everything down.
That's what I think the song is about, people stuffing their heads, ears, time, space with shit they don't need, leaving their hearts empty, not spending time with the people they love cause they are too busy working to buy more shit, and you'd be better off burning all the shit you've accumulated.
Stuffocation It's about people trying to cram 'experiences' in to their life, filling every bit of their head with things they've read, filling their dreams with movies they've watched, turning up the volume to the max to fill our ears with songs, filling their house with crap they've bought. Working hard to fill our lives with shit we don't need, but we're convinced we need. And the thing that matters, our hearts, are filled with stuff we'll never start - I think that means our hearts are full of emptiness. For example, Dads not spending time with their kids cause they are too busy working to pay for more shit. At the end of the music video the play in front of a sign displaying "Everything Now" and they burn it down at night. The end of the song implies to me that all our stuff is shit and it needs to be burned to the ground. But maybe it means if you burn down all your stuff, and that's all you've worked on then you'll have nothing but blackness. In which case you're trapped, you need to burn it down but you can't. The last paragraph is enigmatic.
I was married to a hoarder. The house got filled up with more and more crap. Nothing could be thrown away. She kept buying more stuff all the time. She was always busy doing shit that didn't matter. I just wanted to go for a walk together or sit in the park but we never did. I felt engulfed/suffocated by all the shit everywhere. I couldn't burn it all down - that doesn't work in real life. But I got out, which was like burning everything down.
That's what I think the song is about, people stuffing their heads, ears, time, space with shit they don't need, leaving their hearts empty, not spending time with the people they love cause they are too busy working to buy more shit, and you'd be better off burning all the shit you've accumulated.