i think that he's not physically travelling into the future, but he's doing so in his dreams because he says "WHILE I'm in deep REM sleep Or twilight zones I take a freight elevator". and dreams occurring during a REM sleep are more vividly able to be recalled than usual sleep, which is maybe why he thinks he has seen the actual future because he can remember it so clearly, and it may just be the actual future or it may just be his own vision created by his imagination.
and i'm not sure if this part is correct or if i'm too over-analysing, but the dream motif is also perhaps reinstated in "If I could bring things back They'd feedback wild". WILD, or a wake-initiated lucid dream is when a person is awake but then slips into a lucid dream-like state. so when he 'visits the future' in his dreams, he is aware of the fact that he is dreaming and so is somewhat able to control his actions in his dream, and in doing so tries to bring back the new technologies but when he does is only met with the fact that the items only exist in his dreamworld and can't be moved into the real world?
also another reference "In dreams that bend To let me cut through time" as in the dreams bend/break the regular standards of dreams by thrusting him forward in time?
and then in between that is what everyone else had said about how the exploitation of technology is leading us into a grim future.
oh and i also agree with Miserable at Best, for every single song on here there's always at least one person who has to say that its about drugs! i think people need to look deeper into songs rather than just disregard abstract lyrics as the nonsensical ramblings of a drug-induced high.
i think that he's not physically travelling into the future, but he's doing so in his dreams because he says "WHILE I'm in deep REM sleep Or twilight zones I take a freight elevator". and dreams occurring during a REM sleep are more vividly able to be recalled than usual sleep, which is maybe why he thinks he has seen the actual future because he can remember it so clearly, and it may just be the actual future or it may just be his own vision created by his imagination.
and i'm not sure if this part is correct or if i'm too over-analysing, but the dream motif is also perhaps reinstated in "If I could bring things back They'd feedback wild". WILD, or a wake-initiated lucid dream is when a person is awake but then slips into a lucid dream-like state. so when he 'visits the future' in his dreams, he is aware of the fact that he is dreaming and so is somewhat able to control his actions in his dream, and in doing so tries to bring back the new technologies but when he does is only met with the fact that the items only exist in his dreamworld and can't be moved into the real world?
also another reference "In dreams that bend To let me cut through time" as in the dreams bend/break the regular standards of dreams by thrusting him forward in time?
and then in between that is what everyone else had said about how the exploitation of technology is leading us into a grim future.
oh and i also agree with Miserable at Best, for every single song on here there's always at least one person who has to say that its about drugs! i think people need to look deeper into songs rather than just disregard abstract lyrics as the nonsensical ramblings of a drug-induced high.