What does Through Glass mean?

Stone Sour: Through Glass Meaning

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Song Released: 2006


Through Glass 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

How do you feel, that is the question
But I...

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  1. anonymous
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     Aug 9th 2008 !⃝

    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.

  2. anonymous
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     Jun 30th 2008 !⃝

    Well, like someone before me said, I personally apply this song to a drug-related experience, when I went and babysat for a bunch of my friends because they got some salvia. Well, while they were tripping their collective balls off, it seemed that they all must have had a similar experience, but they handled it all differently. Their stories afterward all had something to do with people all being "meat tubes" or "meat machines" or "meat mannequins". One of my friends, let's call her Annie, told me she felt like there was a sort of glass bubble around her, and that she felt that nobody could get through, but they were all just staring at her through it, hence "remember what you're staring at is me". What they all seemed to agree on was that the experience lasted much longer in their heads than in the real world, all they knew was that it felt like "forever". Then once they were all done, except for me and some other chick who was scared, they offered me the pipe of salvia. All I can tell you is that this song describes my experience perfectly, and that I heard it for the first time the afternoon after I took the salvia. Oh, and forever really does feel like home.

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  3. barx91
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     Jun 26th 2008 !⃝

    This song is purely about the conformity the world is under as a result of all the fake people trying to follow the trends.

  4. anonymous
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     Apr 24th 2008 !⃝

    It seems to me to be about a man who is siting back and taking a long glance at the world for what it is. not how fake hollywood is but people in general how he gets stared at and judged due the affects of media or ideal images. Maybe because he's an alcoholic or for some reason people stare at him or judge him when people should be looking at themselves. and that may be why he's looking through the glass as in like the bottom of a bottle because he can't take what the world is becoming therefor needs to drown himself inside himself.

  5. anonymous
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     Feb 7th 2008 !⃝

    Well either way, it's a absolutely awesome song and means different things to different people.

  6. anonymous
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     Nov 29th 2007 !⃝

    I've said this many times there is no right or wrong interpretation of a song a writer doesn't only write for himself he or she writes for tere readers and its how you feel when you hear a song or read a poem as to how you interpret it, however if I were to give my own outlook on this song I would say that it's about the music industry and how it has become so fake and plastic when corey says its the stars that shine for you it means that its celebrities that you ador and when he says that those stars lie to you he's saying that everything they stand for are lies.

  7. anonymous
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     Oct 29th 2007 !⃝

    Glass: bottles, TV, celebrities on camera
    stars: celebrities, the stars on the flag? seriously not trying to be all conspiracy theory here.

  8. anonymous
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     Oct 23rd 2007 !⃝

    yes its about not being real but there are a shit load of emotions packed into this one song of over a long span of time.in his head?its in your head,meaning he was inside her head and no dorks i don't mean literally to where there is a bloody mess. i mean spiritually...like he hears her like the holy ghost...thats from another song...hmmm....maybe hes just too deep...anyhow it is about his feelings for a woman thats in his head and she is in his head they hear eachother without being in the same place,hence hes in her head and the whole dont know how long its been its because she asked him how long its been and he answered in a song.the song is about them...whoever they is:)~

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  9. anonymous
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     Oct 7th 2007 !⃝

    To be honest.. I think it's about him window shopping, its not meant to be deep or anything, but he looks through a window...and think..I know.. I'm going write a song. Good on you Corey!

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  10. anonymous
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     Sep 10th 2007 !⃝

    I think that he could be referencing the life of a Hollywood superstar. As you see in the music video there is a big "Hollywood" sign in the background. He is saying that all the stars lie to you when they make Hollywood look like such a great place but in fact it is really like a prison.

  11. anonymous
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     Aug 23rd 2007 !⃝

    Everyone shut the fuck up. Corey said himself that he wrote the song when he was in a hotel room and he was "looking through glass" - as in the TV SCREEN, at all the fake shitty people on the music channels and he thought to himself how sad and stupid the whole music industry had become. That inspired him to write the song. GET IT RIGHT.

  12. anonymous
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     Jul 11th 2007 !⃝

    I thought it meant someone was looking at someone else through the glass of their computer screen on MYSPACE! LOL!! totally joking..

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  13. anonymous
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     Jun 26th 2007 !⃝

    The song is about drug addiction and its simply stated in the song "looking and you through the glass don't know ho much time has passed" it plain to see he also talks of voices and if you have ever "Tripped" you will understand

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  14. anonymous
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     Jun 26th 2007 !⃝

    The song is about drug addiction and its simply stated in the song "looking and you through the glass don't know ho much time has passed" it plain to see he also talks of voices and if you have ever "Tripped" you will understand

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  15. BigShow64
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     Jun 13th 2007 !⃝

    I read that this song actually is about being fake in hollywood, the guy who wrote it said so in an interview but I like this song too much to believe that crap, but I thought it was about prison before I read that

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