This album is a concept album about technology and the icolation it causes it is about how conservative sociaty (and the goverment) is becoming. This song in paticular is about conservatvness and how strange people are to "lock up their spirits" "Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets"
Thom said in an interveiw that he got the idea for the song when he was in school and the teacher asked the class to picture the world as if they were aliens and they were seeing it for the first time and did not understand why people were doing the things they were doing.
This album is a concept album about technology and the icolation it causes it is about how conservative sociaty (and the goverment) is becoming. This song in paticular is about conservatvness and how strange people are to "lock up their spirits" "Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets" Thom said in an interveiw that he got the idea for the song when he was in school and the teacher asked the class to picture the world as if they were aliens and they were seeing it for the first time and did not understand why people were doing the things they were doing.
@clarkey don't think it necessarily means a conservative society, perhaps an self-interest society is the bigger issue being raised?
@clarkey don't think it necessarily means a conservative society, perhaps an self-interest society is the bigger issue being raised?
@clarkey hooray for inspirational teachers
@clarkey hooray for inspirational teachers