It is written in the style of Pink Floyd’s metaphorical style of composition. I do think it is a metaphor for a person getting too deep into drug culture which was heavily prevalent in youth culture in the early 90s with the reverie of acid-house in the late 80s catalysing widespread drug use with ecstasy, mdma, lsd and cannibis becoming the cultural norm (as such, as the first track on the album “Going Blank Again”, it was the centrepiece of the album, being a distillation of the treatise they were conveying in the overall album concept about “the blank generation”). I think the song is using an acid trip as a metaphor/allegory for the departure of one from a state of innocence into ‘unknown territory’ of a hedonistic spiral which is brimming with danger. As a deliberately metaphorical piece, I think it is at the same time conveying the idea of the old self transitioning to the new, such as the loss of innocence and the inevitable compromise of one’s ideals to surrender to the reality of embracing a professional career in the capitalist world which for many of us necessitates a ‘shedding of who you were and what you believed’ in order to operate in the “adult world”. I see it in the latter interpretation as being similar to “Welcome to the Machine” by Pink Floyd off of their “Wish you Were Here” album.
It is written in the style of Pink Floyd’s metaphorical style of composition. I do think it is a metaphor for a person getting too deep into drug culture which was heavily prevalent in youth culture in the early 90s with the reverie of acid-house in the late 80s catalysing widespread drug use with ecstasy, mdma, lsd and cannibis becoming the cultural norm (as such, as the first track on the album “Going Blank Again”, it was the centrepiece of the album, being a distillation of the treatise they were conveying in the overall album concept about “the blank generation”). I think the song is using an acid trip as a metaphor/allegory for the departure of one from a state of innocence into ‘unknown territory’ of a hedonistic spiral which is brimming with danger. As a deliberately metaphorical piece, I think it is at the same time conveying the idea of the old self transitioning to the new, such as the loss of innocence and the inevitable compromise of one’s ideals to surrender to the reality of embracing a professional career in the capitalist world which for many of us necessitates a ‘shedding of who you were and what you believed’ in order to operate in the “adult world”. I see it in the latter interpretation as being similar to “Welcome to the Machine” by Pink Floyd off of their “Wish you Were Here” album.
[Edit: correction of a grammatical error]