To me the lyrics describe someone who just can't figure out how to proceed with living because they run solely on misguided faith. He's depended on a guide be it friends, family, a lover, his ego, drugs or God that has only led him astray. Whatever the guide is, it is seemingly only existent for its own benefit as the singer always ends up being damaged somehow. And after trying so hard to follow the guide for so long, he's left after so many years no longer able to act on his own will(gun-shy). He is always looking for signs. Seeing the sky stare at him, putting his ears to the ground, but to no avail (Always pushing against the earth). He left his mind long ago and put on a fake persona to try to force himself to act. I am led to think this person believes in God even though he's only given glimpses of the truth and eventually led by them into tribulation. In the video, 3 of them are busy taking samples of their skin, blood and doing tests on their bodies. But one of them lays motionless until the very end when he's blowing out smoke.Then he is resurrected. Maybe a drug reference but I think it could be the expression "blowing smoke" as if he is really only trying to get pity out of us so as to continue his addiction to fear. And he feels alive again temporarily.
To me the lyrics describe someone who just can't figure out how to proceed with living because they run solely on misguided faith. He's depended on a guide be it friends, family, a lover, his ego, drugs or God that has only led him astray. Whatever the guide is, it is seemingly only existent for its own benefit as the singer always ends up being damaged somehow. And after trying so hard to follow the guide for so long, he's left after so many years no longer able to act on his own will(gun-shy). He is always looking for signs. Seeing the sky stare at him, putting his ears to the ground, but to no avail (Always pushing against the earth). He left his mind long ago and put on a fake persona to try to force himself to act. I am led to think this person believes in God even though he's only given glimpses of the truth and eventually led by them into tribulation. In the video, 3 of them are busy taking samples of their skin, blood and doing tests on their bodies. But one of them lays motionless until the very end when he's blowing out smoke.Then he is resurrected. Maybe a drug reference but I think it could be the expression "blowing smoke" as if he is really only trying to get pity out of us so as to continue his addiction to fear. And he feels alive again temporarily.