"“The apocalypse in that song is a lecturer who realises he hasn’t in all of his teaching mentioned the really important thing,” says Callahan, picking up a little. “I just wanted to write from the perspective of a college professor or something — some guy who goes around giving talks. I started thinking about the way we perceive things, how we don’t see things moving. We see snapshots, you know… There’s a space between each snapshot you see and your mind connects them all like a movie. It’s the way scientists say we perceive things. And it’s almost like each photograph is the death and the new one is rebirth.”
an interesting comment in an interview by Bill
"“The apocalypse in that song is a lecturer who realises he hasn’t in all of his teaching mentioned the really important thing,” says Callahan, picking up a little. “I just wanted to write from the perspective of a college professor or something — some guy who goes around giving talks. I started thinking about the way we perceive things, how we don’t see things moving. We see snapshots, you know… There’s a space between each snapshot you see and your mind connects them all like a movie. It’s the way scientists say we perceive things. And it’s almost like each photograph is the death and the new one is rebirth.”