Stone Sour: Through Glass Meaning
Through Glass Lyrics
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh God it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever feels like home
Sitting all alone inside your head
How do you feel, that is the question
But I...
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icarus_zeppelin Jun 11th 2007, 13:21 report
Obviously, the video suggests the song is about Hollywood being the piece of shit that it is, but I think the meaning goes much deeper.
I think the idea is that Corey is looking at himself in the mirror. His internal self is asking his external self how he feels.
He must appear okay to everyone, but he is asking himself how he really feels. While he is carrying on a conversation with himself, he begins to realize that hope is just a dream. It can never really be achieved.
What does he hope for -- He hopes for someone who isn't a "mannequin". Who actually cares about being more than what they appear to be externally.
Thats where Hollywood comes in.....
Everyone idolizes stars and tries to be just like them-- Superficial, stuck-up, self-centered, and plastic. Completely fake and utterly worthless in Corey's eyes.
And so long as everyone is trying to be a mannequin, all he can do is sit there...all alone inside his head. -
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anonymous Dec 6th 2006, 16:00 report
The song itself — with its reference to "An epidemic of the mannequins contaminating everything" — began when Taylor was “sitting in a European hotel room watching a music video channel," he says. "I just remember seeing act after act of this inane, innocuous, plastic music. They were bubbly gossamer-thin groups, where it was really more about the clothes they wore and the length of their cheekbones than it was about the content of the song they were singing. 'Through Glass' is really a very angry song. It's me basically calling 'bullshit' on pretty much everyone involved with the 'American Idol'-type shows. It has its place, but when you're basically cornering the market and making it very hard for anyone who actually writes their own music to get ahead, then it's wrong and that's really why I wrote this song."
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paparoach Jan 4th 2007, 17:58 report
this song is about everyone being fake in hollywood and the whole music business telling everyone who they should be and how to be.... otherwise they won't accept them into their world... He's saying that he's been sucked into it and is now realizing that he can't just be who he is, that is why he says he doesn't know how much time has passed. now he's sitting all alone inside his head thinking about how it's all happened fast. maybe he's alone because his ego took over and all the real people in his life are sick of him....?
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anonymous Apr 17th, 14:48 report
I think its the interpretation of the very first incident of two people falling in love. And the fall of mankind. And the angel is the fallen angel talking to the supposed eve. And the mannequins are the people walking around that have lost their souls and the stars are the stars in their sky but they lie because their not where she remembers being from and the angel wants her to know the song is for her
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anonymous Mar 5th, 13:49 report
well this is a very tough one as "the glass" can have many meanings. As meantioned in earlier interperations it can be the mirror, the glass in a prison, /or a window itself. The stars def. represent the hollywood"fakes". They are plastic like manequins and every one, for whatever unknown reason, looks up to them and tries to be like them. He seems to feel like he is "lost in forever" in that he doesnt know quite how long he has been there. He could be looking inside himself or hes looking at someone else. It really depends on how you look at yourself.
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anonymous Aug 23rd 2012, 14:32 report
I thought it was about a stripper being stuck behind the glass wall with all these pervs watching her day after day. I might be wrong, but I like my cynical interpretation
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anonymous Jul 18th 2012, 01:44 report
I work at a psychiatric hospital....
& this song really makes me think that it's written in the perspective of a patient. I could be wrong or slightly biased, but from my experience on psychiatric wards; this is dead on from a patients pov.
But I have heard the photograph theory also, lookin through the glass of picture frames. Makes sense. Could be that also. Could be the one about Hollywood being a fake piece of shit cancer on our society. But the one that makes most sense to me is my theory (and I'm sure many others have thought it also) about it being about a psych unit. -
anonymous Jul 9th 2012, 00:47 report
I belive thet the singer is sitting at home reliving all of his memories threw looking at all the pictures of love ones, and all the good time he has had with them. He wishes he can go back to the time when the all were still around and cared about him. Through glass is referes to him looking threw a camera lens and then taking the presios memories that he once had
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anonymous Apr 5th 2012, 00:17 report
i really do think he is in jail because of the part, im lookig at you though the glass, as in visiting hours
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KDJ Feb 17th 2012, 11:31 report
Me: The song is about Corey Taylor Conscious.
Lyrics: I'm looking at you through the glass
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh God it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever feels like home
Sitting all alone inside your head
Me: His conscious is looking at him in the mirror, and it telling him that this lifestyle he has feels like it lasted forever because he misses his old life (home). His conscious is sitting all alone inside his head.
Lyrics: When something like a soul becomes
Initialized and folded up like paper dolls and little notes You can't expect a bit of hope
Me: When a person essence is erased (initialized) and then made into something fake and superficial, then there is no hope.
Lyrics:An epidemic of the mannequins
contaminating everything
Me: Fake people are infecting everyone. -
anonymous Oct 25th 2011, 11:05 report
When I 1st heard this song my mother had been diagnosed with end stage Alzheimer's Disease. Every time I hear the 1st verse of this song all I can think about how lonely she must have been locked away in her mind and unable to carry on a conversation with anyone... it just saddened me know she only remembered me as the long haired boy.
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anonymous Sep 2nd 2011, 01:17 report
Unsure how anyone who has seen the video would think it's about being in prison. The glass is an obvious referral to a camera lense. (my opinion of course)
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anonymous Jul 11th 2011, 23:26 report
I think its about a relationship "put on pause" or so to speak I say it from experience waiting for that person you love and feels too far away and feeling like you've been waiting forever for that one person..idk that's what I think when I hear this song..makes me cry :-(
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anonymous May 24th 2011, 21:00 report
When I heard this song I thought of my brother. Sentenced to 25 years, knowing how much my mom and I hurt because of this he feels bad. I think it deserves a different interpretation for every one. To me it seems like any one that is there and you want yet you can't "touch" is being represented
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anonymous Apr 17th 2011, 18:51 report
Look guys
officialy corey says that it was written about shitty pop music
but as with most of his songs the meanings go so much deeper
it's just about what it means to each person. -
anonymous Nov 17th 2010, 18:04 report
For me the song has a personal meaning. This song pretty much descibed an episode in my life after I lost the woman I love.
I found myself staring at my reflection in a window at work. It was dark outside but don't recall it getting dark, so had no idea how long I'd been there. Being lost in my own thoughts really did feel like home for me as reality, and my life, fell apart. I found was asking myself questions that I didn't have answers for, or was unable to face up to. I felt that my heart and soul had been torn out, screwed up like a piece of paper and thrown away. All hope had effectively gone.
I became the talk of the office after that. People I thought were friends forgot their problems and spread gossip about me (mannequins contaminating everything) and laughed at me behind my back (no more sad voices).
As for the stars, I used to think as a kid that as long as I could see the Ursa Major, the big dipper or plough constellation, I would always be safe from harm. I felt at the time that the stars had lied to me.
Sorry for the soppy explanation, but as I said, it's my own personal meaning to the song. -
anonymous Sep 11th 2010, 09:13 report
Quoted from Corey Taylor on why he wrote this song
“I remember exactly where I was. It was 2004 and I was on tour with Slipknot. I was sitting in a European hotel room watching a music video channel, seeing act after act after act of this insane, innocuous, plastic music. They were plastic, bubbly, gossamer-thin groups where it was really more about the clothes they wore and the length of their cheekbones than it was about the content of the song they were singing.
It really made me mad. I was like, is this it? Have we just gone full circle? Did the singer/songwriter revolution never happen? Is it just the same drivel from the same replicate over and over again? 'Through Glass' is really a very angry song. It's me basically calling 'bullshit' on pretty much everyone involved with the 'American Idol'-type shows. It has its place, but when you're basically cornering the market and making it very hard for anyone who actually writes their own music to get ahead, then it's wrong and that's really why I wrote this song.”
so I'm going with he got really angry at music and peoples hollowness -
anonymous Jul 3rd 2010, 23:33 report
I believe that he was talking about during his issues with alcohol and how his wife helped him, I mean that's what he said in an interview.
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anonymous Nov 28th 2008, 13:22 report
It reminds me of visitation with my boyfriend while he was in jail. " I'm looking at you through the glass, don't know how much time has passed, all i know is that it feels like forever, but noone ever tells you that forever feels like home sitting all alone inside your head." It describes exactly what its like for them looking at a loved through the jail glass not able to hug or even touch them. Its very painful and hard to go through. And for someone in jail all they do is think.
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anonymous Aug 9th 2008, 14:46 report
I agree with another poster in that this song is about a drug-related experience. It may not necessarily be about salvia, but the lyrics coincide very much with a salvia experience. Technically, the song could be about any dissociative drug experience, but I have only felt my "soul folding," as mentioned in the song, on salvia. It is impossible to explain what your soul folding feels like, but it is extremely uncomfortable. With all dissociative drugs, you feel outside of your body, looking in at yourself, as mentioned in the song. You also don't have a sense of time on this drug, hence the line, "I don't know how much time has passed, oh god it feels like forever." Nothing on salvia seems real either, it seems almost like a cartoon world and you, or what you think "you" are, is a character in the cartoon. Sound is greatly distorted also, hence the line "just listen to the noises, null and void instead of voices."
All in all, this is a very interesting song. The glass he refers to could be anything, and even though the song could be about anything, it seems to be strongly related to a dissociative drug experience.
Thanks for reading. -
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