Yeah, it's about a security guard. More specifically, it's about a security guard basically living out his days in the darkness with a security system that, by the lyrics, seems to border on having sentience. He's sipping his tea, watching the monitors, thinking about all the other things in his life that he could be doing, and then throwing those thoughts away because he's not hired to think. Ultimately he feels pretty listless about this whole thing, daydreaming the hours away.
Meanwhile the security system of the building is living a simple life. There are cameras and alarms and whatever else connected up to its "brain" like a nervous system. It views the security guard as its God (which is actually pretty interesting if you think about the similarities in pronunciation with some English accents.) This security system, again having its own little thoughts, is pondering its own function and waiting for the moment can it can be of some use (ready to sing, ready to set off the alarms or whatever else if someone breaks in.)
Then in the last portion of the song, something mysterious begins happening...It may be that an intruder finally does show up. Or maybe not. But whatever it is, the song takes on a spiritual, ritualistic, orgasmic quality as the security system plunges into a growing frenzy. Its little electric heart is beating faster and faster and faster as it repeatedly prays to its security guard god to open up the world, to bring something down. You can almost see a woman dancing in the moonlight with a long staff in her hand.
The security system desires this thing more and more and more until finally ------
Ahhhhhhhh... release!
Apparently God the Security Guard heard the prayer. In the regular world, in meat-space, this prayer was probably just some kind of notifier on a screen. Totally mundane. You see, he's so busy feeling listless, so busy daydreaming, that he has no idea what kind of world exists right under his nose.
Yeah, it's about a security guard. More specifically, it's about a security guard basically living out his days in the darkness with a security system that, by the lyrics, seems to border on having sentience. He's sipping his tea, watching the monitors, thinking about all the other things in his life that he could be doing, and then throwing those thoughts away because he's not hired to think. Ultimately he feels pretty listless about this whole thing, daydreaming the hours away.
Meanwhile the security system of the building is living a simple life. There are cameras and alarms and whatever else connected up to its "brain" like a nervous system. It views the security guard as its God (which is actually pretty interesting if you think about the similarities in pronunciation with some English accents.) This security system, again having its own little thoughts, is pondering its own function and waiting for the moment can it can be of some use (ready to sing, ready to set off the alarms or whatever else if someone breaks in.)
Then in the last portion of the song, something mysterious begins happening...It may be that an intruder finally does show up. Or maybe not. But whatever it is, the song takes on a spiritual, ritualistic, orgasmic quality as the security system plunges into a growing frenzy. Its little electric heart is beating faster and faster and faster as it repeatedly prays to its security guard god to open up the world, to bring something down. You can almost see a woman dancing in the moonlight with a long staff in her hand.
The security system desires this thing more and more and more until finally ------
Ahhhhhhhh... release!
Apparently God the Security Guard heard the prayer. In the regular world, in meat-space, this prayer was probably just some kind of notifier on a screen. Totally mundane. You see, he's so busy feeling listless, so busy daydreaming, that he has no idea what kind of world exists right under his nose.
There you go. That's Group Four.
Dude... you are brilliant.
Dude... you are brilliant.