Three – Been to the Future

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  General Comment:reminds me of lost. =3

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  General Comment:Nah. I think this one's relatively simple. Considering that the entire album deals with endings of different sorts, this one is about the fear that "all good things must come to an end".
  
  The character is seeing dreams of how he and his girlfriend will change as they grow older and his close-to-perfect relationship coming to an end. Later it is revealed that the girl is afraid of the same thing.
  
  "Is this what it means to be free?" is all about this idea: that there are no metaphysical forces shaping our destiny to be glorious, just slow decay. In the end of the song, their fears have taken over and THAT is actually what finally destroys the relationship. Illusions of perfect happiness fade; the premonitions come real, but only because the couple caused it themselves by worrying about it.

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  General Comment:This is just an amazing song.
  
  Anyway, I have a bit of an odd theory about this song (I don't really believe this, it's just what it reminds me of). I think Joey wrote this song about an experience he had taking some kind of hallucinogenic drug. What really gives me this idea is the lyric "today all the illusions are fading away, I've drawn my conclusions".

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  General Comment:The carnival-sounding part makes me want to cream myself.
  
  Anyway, it sounds like this song is about people who follow the same daily routine for their entire life, and that they're very predictable, and the singer is saying that he's "been to the future" because he knows that they won't change their habits and they'll always continue on that way.

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    the double-meaning of "been to the future" is that if "they" are headed for a future that's exactly the same as their present, then "they" have already been to the future too.
    
    to me the song is definitely about unwillingness or inability to change.

    Flag leechlesson October 31, 2010  

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