"I guess I am alone, then again I always was, as far back as I can tell, I think maybe it's because you were never really real to begin with, I just made you up to hurt myself."
One of the many things I find appealing about music is the way we read between the lines... the way we make the words of someone else our own, creating a new meaning, a new song. I suppose we're accurate with our analysis on some occasion... but sometimes we're biased, fitting the lyrics to a circumstance that we think fits appropriately.
In this instance when I hear the words written above I fit them in a political fashion because that's what suits me. While this statement could be interpreted as being derived from some sort of internal reflection, a psychoanalysis of oneself, I prefer to think on a less obvious plane. Which may not be correct by any means however the song still accomplishes its intention which is to somehow communicate or connect or relate to individuals on a personal level. Music has been serving this purpose for almost as long as human beings have existed; it's almost a necessary component to life some of my friends will argue. It's an emotional, creative extension of the artist, one that finds its way to another individual possibly stirring the same emotional creative outcome or that of another kind but all the same, influencing, effecting, provoking all sorts of reactions (which with a Buddhist mentality one can say that music is, in its own right, a representation of karma, the ultimate cause and effect of behaviors, actions, and decisions).
And so when I sing these words I sing them in a facetious tone, one that is directed to the man who will be leaving a mess to the next, and I shake my head in disbelief of this illusion of democracy, which is more like a mockery, allowing people to believe that they actually mean something. demockracy. lol.
[Song lyrics provided by T. Reznor (LOL I guess not literally provided by him specifically for use in this post but it sounds cool so that's the end of it.)]
Paranoid. About. Quoting.
