anonymous October 20th, 2007 08:13AM  

The song suggests that the world may be just your imagination, and that in all truth you are really all alone and no one else really exists, and that you'd rather accept this lie than the real thing.

anonymous March 9th, 2008 04:56AM  

I believe this song is about America's society and the government. How the things the leaders and politicians get away with seem out of a nightmare. How Americans walk around in a dream state and someday they might wake up and realize they should have acted sooner but its too late. This idea being generated from the depictions of war and president bush during the song on the Beside You in Time DVD.

kelseya330 April 29th, 2009 03:12AM  

I actually think this song has a lot deeper meaning then some want to believe. if you look up wingmakers on google you can read a lot of what I've been reading, and it seems to me most of the songs on the with teeth album could be interpreted relating to the material on this website. I interprate this song like so: The world has a lot more to it.. to see and experience and realize then we can even begin to know.

Jiweee July 17th, 2009 03:46PM  

I found this song to explain the lives of close-minded religious people that choose to avoid the truth and shut themselves out from reality. They are born in a bubble and they continue to run their lives and raise their young within this bubble and imaginary life that they have created around them. They're ignorant but don't know any other way of life.

"See the animal in his cage that you built
Are you sure what side you're on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart"

You raise your children and live your life within this over-protective and god-fearing environment so that you can keep control in your life. You're hollow because you choose to avoid all other views but you're own. You refuse to open your eyes to see beyond this "God" you speak of. So that everything is the way you want it... right where it belongs.

"What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want it to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks?
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afraid to see?"

What if everything you believe to be true is actually a lie? What if this "God" is just an elaborate dream? If you looked past everything you have been told to believe? Would you find yourself afraid in this new lonely world?

"What if all the world's inside of your head
Just creations of your own?
Your devils and your gods
All the living and the dead
And you're really all alone?"

What if what you believe is just in your head?
What if there is no "devils and your gods"? And you're really all alone?

"You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the woods
While you're hiding in the trees"

You can live in this illusion and faith and you can choose to believe everything you're told.
You keep looking for this truth (God), while you're hiding behind these lies.

My interpretation. Doesn't mean it's the "right" one. That's just what I picked up from it right away.

Red_China August 16th, 2009 11:33AM  

I have thought that when I was drugged up and swimming in a bottle of alcohol that the world seemed to be some dream that wasn't real. Trent I know has over come alcoholism and talks about the things that he had seen and done with the ones he loves and had loved. Very much the same as my self, I was not in this reality but in one I had made up in my mind. I had my moments in front of the mirror saying the same things to my self. I wondered how I had gotten where I was and why it was happening to me. The man is talking about looking at him self much as have done over the years. All the lose that I have had due to my own self destruction is some times more than I can bear. When I hear this song I just cry and remember all the people I hurt and left behind that loved me. I just simply take this as a man that has been in my place that has lived a dream, of our own making so we could run from the hurt of the lives we had lived or still live in some cases.

JovanSiems November 12th, 2009 03:45AM  

I don't know allot about Trent or why he wrote this song so I won't talk out of my ass but only my actual opinion. I believe this song is about American society's control and influence on modern life. He tries to make a strong point in this song that you will have to figure out for yourself as I am sure he would want you to do. This song is a metaphorical message telling you to look beyond what you are told by people with so called knowledge on what life is truly about. It explains that you have the choice to believe in what you want no matter what people pull over your eyes but you need the F### courage to accept you will never know all of the answers to life and willing to accept your own beliefs. If you are able to do that the influence of society's fake protection from the truth can not harm you. Well that all I got thanks.