This song is a turning point in the album. Mr. Self-Destruct/the Ruiner/the villain of the story launches a massive campaign to completely take over the protagonist. Once he has the controls, he can run the character's life into the ground. He has already been weakened enough throughout the events of all the preceding songs, and now is when he makes his move. The protagonist slowly begins shutting down everything that makes him human. The mechanical voice keeps assuring that the human side of him is broken, wounded, gone forever. However, the human side of him is still there, as shown by the acoustic sections of the song (hiding, backwards inside of me) but it feels like its at an all-time low and may disappear soon (I might just slip away). However, the voice inside his head doesn't let up, it wants him dead.
This song is a turning point in the album. Mr. Self-Destruct/the Ruiner/the villain of the story launches a massive campaign to completely take over the protagonist. Once he has the controls, he can run the character's life into the ground. He has already been weakened enough throughout the events of all the preceding songs, and now is when he makes his move. The protagonist slowly begins shutting down everything that makes him human. The mechanical voice keeps assuring that the human side of him is broken, wounded, gone forever. However, the human side of him is still there, as shown by the acoustic sections of the song (hiding, backwards inside of me) but it feels like its at an all-time low and may disappear soon (I might just slip away). However, the voice inside his head doesn't let up, it wants him dead.