I feel like this song is about him wanting to end a relationship with this girl but shes in denial about their incompatability and he is too afriad to hurt her because shes emotionally weak ("First Im gonna make it, then im gonna break it till it falls apart. Hating all the fakin and shaking while im breakin your brittle heart"). So he continues to lie and say he loves her ("Shiver and say the words of every lie you've heard") even though he wants to be free from her and her baggage. To me the "dancing horses" symbolize his wanting to be free from her but "headless and alone" reminds him that he cant just pick up and leave.
The only other thing is a sense of inevitability, dancing horses being another circus act, "the show must go on" as it were: being trapped in a relationship as he is. The last change "bring on the new Messiah is may be the hope she will find someone else and finish it for him.
The only other thing is a sense of inevitability, dancing horses being another circus act, "the show must go on" as it were: being trapped in a relationship as he is. The last change "bring on the new Messiah is may be the hope she will find someone else and finish it for him.
I feel like this song is about him wanting to end a relationship with this girl but shes in denial about their incompatability and he is too afriad to hurt her because shes emotionally weak ("First Im gonna make it, then im gonna break it till it falls apart. Hating all the fakin and shaking while im breakin your brittle heart"). So he continues to lie and say he loves her ("Shiver and say the words of every lie you've heard") even though he wants to be free from her and her baggage. To me the "dancing horses" symbolize his wanting to be free from her but "headless and alone" reminds him that he cant just pick up and leave.
Spot on, was going to say this then saw your post.
Spot on, was going to say this then saw your post.
The only other thing is a sense of inevitability, dancing horses being another circus act, "the show must go on" as it were: being trapped in a relationship as he is. The last change "bring on the new Messiah is may be the hope she will find someone else and finish it for him.
The only other thing is a sense of inevitability, dancing horses being another circus act, "the show must go on" as it were: being trapped in a relationship as he is. The last change "bring on the new Messiah is may be the hope she will find someone else and finish it for him.