After sifting through the comments, I think I'm the only one who doesn't get the whole "music is wonderful" vibe from this song.
I see the lyrics as a first-person narrative from the perspective of a young recluse/shut-in, who uses music to help him "shut the world outside". He is indifferent about the state of the world outside him, focusing only on his own existence in his room ("Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone / I feel my heart start beating to my favorite song"). Because he is so shut off from society, everything that happens in his life is magnified completely. Every siren that he hears going down the street is like a symphony to him, and every teardrop is like a waterfall.
With "And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night / Until Monday morning feels another life / I turn the music up / I'm on a roll this time / And heaven is in sight", he could possibly be referring to other kids who lead a 'normal' pattern of going to school and then enjoying the weekend. He is exempt from this monotonous life. By "heaven is in sight", he could either mean he is in complete bliss, or that he feels completely empty, as if near death.
"From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song / Don't want to see another generation drop / I'd rather be a comma than a full stop"
Though he is 'buried' inside his room and cut off from the rest of the world, he is rebelling against the daily pattern that everyone follows without resistance. He doesn't want to see another generation lost to this thing, and shuts himself inside. He would rather people wonder where he has gone (simply disappearing one day) than have people know where he ended up (e.g. working a corporate job all his life, etc.).
After sifting through the comments, I think I'm the only one who doesn't get the whole "music is wonderful" vibe from this song.
I see the lyrics as a first-person narrative from the perspective of a young recluse/shut-in, who uses music to help him "shut the world outside". He is indifferent about the state of the world outside him, focusing only on his own existence in his room ("Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone / I feel my heart start beating to my favorite song"). Because he is so shut off from society, everything that happens in his life is magnified completely. Every siren that he hears going down the street is like a symphony to him, and every teardrop is like a waterfall.
With "And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night / Until Monday morning feels another life / I turn the music up / I'm on a roll this time / And heaven is in sight", he could possibly be referring to other kids who lead a 'normal' pattern of going to school and then enjoying the weekend. He is exempt from this monotonous life. By "heaven is in sight", he could either mean he is in complete bliss, or that he feels completely empty, as if near death.
"From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song / Don't want to see another generation drop / I'd rather be a comma than a full stop" Though he is 'buried' inside his room and cut off from the rest of the world, he is rebelling against the daily pattern that everyone follows without resistance. He doesn't want to see another generation lost to this thing, and shuts himself inside. He would rather people wonder where he has gone (simply disappearing one day) than have people know where he ended up (e.g. working a corporate job all his life, etc.).