The first I thought about was a general attack on consumerism, and how products are shoved onto us ("Each household appliance is like a new science in my town") by marketing a lifestyle (maybe a modern phenomenon, I don't know) and how it makes us less real ("if the day came when I felt a natural emotion etc.")
THe other thing I thought, which is more my thoughts projected onto the song, is how people (mostly young people) melodramatise their lives in an attention seeking sort of way, and that's why he sings that if he felt a natural emotion he'd be shocked by it, because he's only used to the fake emotions he puts on himself for his image (the character, I'm not slighting him :P ). I also think the line "the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy on her terms" is about how people will make their problems seem so much more important than other peoples, even when they're very minor. For this interpretation, the last verse where he sings "I think about Death/I think about life/neither appeals to me" is how people will make it seem like life is not worth th hassle to themselves, but when they think about it they don't want to die.
I thought it was an attack on one of two things:
The first I thought about was a general attack on consumerism, and how products are shoved onto us ("Each household appliance is like a new science in my town") by marketing a lifestyle (maybe a modern phenomenon, I don't know) and how it makes us less real ("if the day came when I felt a natural emotion etc.")
THe other thing I thought, which is more my thoughts projected onto the song, is how people (mostly young people) melodramatise their lives in an attention seeking sort of way, and that's why he sings that if he felt a natural emotion he'd be shocked by it, because he's only used to the fake emotions he puts on himself for his image (the character, I'm not slighting him :P ). I also think the line "the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy on her terms" is about how people will make their problems seem so much more important than other peoples, even when they're very minor. For this interpretation, the last verse where he sings "I think about Death/I think about life/neither appeals to me" is how people will make it seem like life is not worth th hassle to themselves, but when they think about it they don't want to die.
Not sure if anyone would agree though :)