"Blame it on the web but the spider's your problem now.
Language is the liquid that we're all dissolved in.
Great for solving problems, after it creates a problem.
Blame it on the Tetons. God, I need a scapegoat now."
I'm pretty sure that this part's referencing a poem by Robert Graves, The Cool Web:
"[...]
There's a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:
We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
In brininess and volubility.
But if we let our tongues lose self-possession,
Throwing off language and its watery clasp
Before our death, instead of when death comes,
Facing the wide glare of the children's day,
Facing the rose, the dark sky and the drums,
We shall go mad no doubt and die that way."
Personally I think this song's about apathy and emotional disengagement - always looking for someone else to blame the problem on, or cloaking it in words and avoidant behaviour. Everyone's a burning building, but people all around them are just standing there, too scared to just reach out and try to help.
"Blame it on the web but the spider's your problem now. Language is the liquid that we're all dissolved in. Great for solving problems, after it creates a problem. Blame it on the Tetons. God, I need a scapegoat now."
I'm pretty sure that this part's referencing a poem by Robert Graves, The Cool Web:
"[...] There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.
But if we let our tongues lose self-possession, Throwing off language and its watery clasp Before our death, instead of when death comes, Facing the wide glare of the children's day, Facing the rose, the dark sky and the drums, We shall go mad no doubt and die that way."
Personally I think this song's about apathy and emotional disengagement - always looking for someone else to blame the problem on, or cloaking it in words and avoidant behaviour. Everyone's a burning building, but people all around them are just standing there, too scared to just reach out and try to help.