In context with the rest of the album, in the past songs this person grew up to resent the people around him and close himself from people. This song is the moment in which being isolated for so long, breaks him. The song is a complex narrative that centers around a nameless person who is basically feeling that no one is answering him or her. The repetition of "Hey You' indicates that the person in the song is desperate to have a connection with other people and bring back his sanity. He is clinging, asking for someone to feel him, touch him, to help him, to hear him. It his isolation from the rest of the world that creates an intense desire for a physical, emotional, communicable level. These forms of communication to another person are basic human needs to avoid feeling desolate. The song quotes, "Would you help me carry the stone." This is the burden of the human condition that needs human affection to have a stable sane life.This person for so long built a wall all around him.
This song is the manifestation of this emotion. I could imagine this person going to the grocery store and wanting to talk to some random stranger about his life. Ultimately, his isolation tore his mind into shreds.
The music helps blend the feeling. The use of guitar for the high repetitive notes with the blend of the low bass melody creates a gloomy, intense and yet it almost seems like the notes in the song is descending into a greater depression. This descend is caused by the one stand out, loud mid (G) double repetitive note that sounds like daodao. And this shifts from that high guitar makes audience feel that transition from a lighter mood, to a darker mood. The timing of the song and the long strides the singer takes to say each phrase makes each word have a stronger emotional meaning. This is what shapes the structure of the song and the meaning behind it.
In context with the rest of the album, in the past songs this person grew up to resent the people around him and close himself from people. This song is the moment in which being isolated for so long, breaks him. The song is a complex narrative that centers around a nameless person who is basically feeling that no one is answering him or her. The repetition of "Hey You' indicates that the person in the song is desperate to have a connection with other people and bring back his sanity. He is clinging, asking for someone to feel him, touch him, to help him, to hear him. It his isolation from the rest of the world that creates an intense desire for a physical, emotional, communicable level. These forms of communication to another person are basic human needs to avoid feeling desolate. The song quotes, "Would you help me carry the stone." This is the burden of the human condition that needs human affection to have a stable sane life.This person for so long built a wall all around him.
This song is the manifestation of this emotion. I could imagine this person going to the grocery store and wanting to talk to some random stranger about his life. Ultimately, his isolation tore his mind into shreds. The music helps blend the feeling. The use of guitar for the high repetitive notes with the blend of the low bass melody creates a gloomy, intense and yet it almost seems like the notes in the song is descending into a greater depression. This descend is caused by the one stand out, loud mid (G) double repetitive note that sounds like daodao. And this shifts from that high guitar makes audience feel that transition from a lighter mood, to a darker mood. The timing of the song and the long strides the singer takes to say each phrase makes each word have a stronger emotional meaning. This is what shapes the structure of the song and the meaning behind it.