I originally just liked this song because it's so catchy, and that line about how "The white paint / Plastic saints / Say it all."
The more I think about it, the more I think it's about creativity, and how when you're writing something, you're sort of inside yourself (that's why the MIND's inside the cell). There's a really cool artist-as-deviant/criminal/outsider thing going on.
You try to express what you feel, and what you see, but you can't, because there's always something there that does it better (Steel eyes, tight jaws; it's always something unspoken that you're trying to put into words).You feel like it's your mission to tell the whole truth about the world. "Somebody has got to say it all."
I originally just liked this song because it's so catchy, and that line about how "The white paint / Plastic saints / Say it all." The more I think about it, the more I think it's about creativity, and how when you're writing something, you're sort of inside yourself (that's why the MIND's inside the cell). There's a really cool artist-as-deviant/criminal/outsider thing going on. You try to express what you feel, and what you see, but you can't, because there's always something there that does it better (Steel eyes, tight jaws; it's always something unspoken that you're trying to put into words).You feel like it's your mission to tell the whole truth about the world. "Somebody has got to say it all."