Top Rated Interpretation

anonymous January 8th, 2006 01:37AM  
I love this song for the fact that is appeals to so many people; it's very universal when it conveys themes like loss of hope, desolation, and finally resigned acceptance.

I think the song is mainly told from the perspective of a teen conflicted with the purpose of life, and through his life he goes through stages of unending hope, depression(morphine city slippin dues), and cyncism(we feel the pull in a land of a thousand guilts and dead cement, forgotten and assured.) But near the end, the tempo of the song picks up and you can feel the last stab at life, or attempt at hope being ignited on his journey(the lights, the towns below, faster then the speed of sound), but then it descends to the disquieting conclusion of mortality( street heats the urgency of sound, can't you see there's no one around) Awesome song. 5/5.