This is completely my own interpretation, lacing my own experiences into the song and coming to this conclusion so I am not claiming this is the meaning but anyway.
I feel this song is sang from the perspective of a man lost in a heavy depression. The city he is getting out of could be his over crowded thoughts in his grey, bleak mind. He's so tired of everything it means nothing to him now because he is used to all the craziness so he is numb to it. He could be suffering from post military depression, the lines suggest to me that he did a stint at war and returned home while the people he grew close to, who became like family to him, remained over there. It'll take a better war to kill a college man like me makes me think that he is more used to using mentality than physicality (going to college, getting an education) so the biggest challenge he faces is an internal battle with himself.
He's tired of everything; he is sick of the life he lives and his emotional fatigue prevents him from moving on from the hardship he is experiencing. The 'bathing suit' line suggests that while everyone around him has a good time, and he encourages them to, he would prefer to sit and watch something on tv that is meaningless to him.
He's losing himself, falling farther and farther into the darkness every day.
'Lemonworld' is interesting because I didn't know what the phrase actually meant when I heard this song first. So I took it to mean that the people he sings about live in a superficial world. At a glance a lemon you'd imagine to be sweet since it is a fruit however that is not the case; a lemon is sour and bitter. Similar to the cruel world we live in. He is sick of life and all it's adversities, so he'd prefer to just die instead of continuing on.
He's not materialistic; he thinks he's always been like that- if he's in a bad place mentally objects (money, cars, houses etc.) will not be enough to rescue him. He can't remember a day when he was happy and he never wanted to let himself fall so far into this dark state. As a child he was happy, but he doesn't look back on happy memories. This just indicates to me his unhappiness. 'Lay me on the table put flowers in my mouth' strengthens my views on the superficial state of society he is criticizing; even if he dies, people will put pretty flowers in his mouth to keep up appearance and to romanticize the situation. They can just 'pretend' to keep themselves happy.
Then it goes back to the bridge and course which emphases the monotony of the hell he suffers.
That is just my opinion on the lyrics. I really felt this song.
This is completely my own interpretation, lacing my own experiences into the song and coming to this conclusion so I am not claiming this is the meaning but anyway.
I feel this song is sang from the perspective of a man lost in a heavy depression. The city he is getting out of could be his over crowded thoughts in his grey, bleak mind. He's so tired of everything it means nothing to him now because he is used to all the craziness so he is numb to it. He could be suffering from post military depression, the lines suggest to me that he did a stint at war and returned home while the people he grew close to, who became like family to him, remained over there. It'll take a better war to kill a college man like me makes me think that he is more used to using mentality than physicality (going to college, getting an education) so the biggest challenge he faces is an internal battle with himself.
He's tired of everything; he is sick of the life he lives and his emotional fatigue prevents him from moving on from the hardship he is experiencing. The 'bathing suit' line suggests that while everyone around him has a good time, and he encourages them to, he would prefer to sit and watch something on tv that is meaningless to him.
He's losing himself, falling farther and farther into the darkness every day.
'Lemonworld' is interesting because I didn't know what the phrase actually meant when I heard this song first. So I took it to mean that the people he sings about live in a superficial world. At a glance a lemon you'd imagine to be sweet since it is a fruit however that is not the case; a lemon is sour and bitter. Similar to the cruel world we live in. He is sick of life and all it's adversities, so he'd prefer to just die instead of continuing on.
He's not materialistic; he thinks he's always been like that- if he's in a bad place mentally objects (money, cars, houses etc.) will not be enough to rescue him. He can't remember a day when he was happy and he never wanted to let himself fall so far into this dark state. As a child he was happy, but he doesn't look back on happy memories. This just indicates to me his unhappiness. 'Lay me on the table put flowers in my mouth' strengthens my views on the superficial state of society he is criticizing; even if he dies, people will put pretty flowers in his mouth to keep up appearance and to romanticize the situation. They can just 'pretend' to keep themselves happy.
Then it goes back to the bridge and course which emphases the monotony of the hell he suffers.
That is just my opinion on the lyrics. I really felt this song.