"A mother sings a lullabye to her child
Sometime in the future the boy goes wild"
"He" is the singer himself (I don't mean Steven Wilson, I mean the "narrator" of the song, you know). This is kind of retrospective, he remembers when he was young. "The future" is the present here, because it's all retrospective.
"And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy."
He feels the strange feeling everyone feels when he wants to screw a girl =)
"Walk in the woods and I will try
Something in the trees that made you cry
It's so erotic when your makeup runs."
He rapes the girl in a forest. She cries, but he just thinks "Ah, that looks erotic". The only thing I'm not clear about is why there's something "in the trees" that made her cry and not "under the trees". I believe this line HAS a meaning, I just don't know what.
"I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read"
Wiring loose in his head means that he's mentally insane. Don't know why he thinks that of himself, that's not quite normal. Anyway, again the other line is something i don't quite understand.
"I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled"
He raped people in his garden shed. I don't know what the scar thing means, however.
"I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes."
The people underneath his bed are the ones he already raped. The line is more of a metaphor, I don't really think he's got people underneath his bed. It means that he hides the secret that he raped someone. "Swim with me into your blackest eyes" means "Sleep with me" or something like that.
"A few minutes with me inside my van
Should be so beautiful if we can
I'm feeling something taking over me."
He also wants to screw her in her car. The lust is the "something taking over him".
That's my interpretation. it's maybe a bit dirty and I'm not clear about everything, but as a whole, that's the song's meaning IMO.
I agree with your interpret. I would add that "Something in the trees" actually stands for "something under the branches of the trees", a metonomic device of the author (trees for their branches, which represents what you can't see from the air > God>correctness (branches block the view) and which is what you stated: rape.
I agree with your interpret. I would add that "Something in the trees" actually stands for "something under the branches of the trees", a metonomic device of the author (trees for their branches, which represents what you can't see from the air > God>correctness (branches block the view) and which is what you stated: rape.
This song is about rape or desire, or both.
Lyric analysis:
"A mother sings a lullabye to her child Sometime in the future the boy goes wild"
"He" is the singer himself (I don't mean Steven Wilson, I mean the "narrator" of the song, you know). This is kind of retrospective, he remembers when he was young. "The future" is the present here, because it's all retrospective.
"And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy."
He feels the strange feeling everyone feels when he wants to screw a girl =)
"Walk in the woods and I will try Something in the trees that made you cry It's so erotic when your makeup runs."
He rapes the girl in a forest. She cries, but he just thinks "Ah, that looks erotic". The only thing I'm not clear about is why there's something "in the trees" that made her cry and not "under the trees". I believe this line HAS a meaning, I just don't know what.
"I got wiring loose inside my head I got books that I never ever read"
Wiring loose in his head means that he's mentally insane. Don't know why he thinks that of himself, that's not quite normal. Anyway, again the other line is something i don't quite understand.
"I got secrets in my garden shed I got a scar where all my urges bled"
He raped people in his garden shed. I don't know what the scar thing means, however.
"I got people underneath my bed I got a place where all my dreams are dead Swim with me into your blackest eyes."
The people underneath his bed are the ones he already raped. The line is more of a metaphor, I don't really think he's got people underneath his bed. It means that he hides the secret that he raped someone. "Swim with me into your blackest eyes" means "Sleep with me" or something like that.
"A few minutes with me inside my van Should be so beautiful if we can I'm feeling something taking over me."
He also wants to screw her in her car. The lust is the "something taking over him".
That's my interpretation. it's maybe a bit dirty and I'm not clear about everything, but as a whole, that's the song's meaning IMO.
I agree with your interpret. I would add that "Something in the trees" actually stands for "something under the branches of the trees", a metonomic device of the author (trees for their branches, which represents what you can't see from the air > God>correctness (branches block the view) and which is what you stated: rape.
I agree with your interpret. I would add that "Something in the trees" actually stands for "something under the branches of the trees", a metonomic device of the author (trees for their branches, which represents what you can't see from the air > God>correctness (branches block the view) and which is what you stated: rape.