Easily my favorite
track on the
album, though
Hypnotist comes close.
"show me how the
robots dance
while we are celebrating this
illusion
show me how to
love and i'll show you how to
beg
together we could
jump through hoops"
The song expresses a wish to be
dumbed-down, to be reduced to
normality. To
settle down, in less poetic terms. It's a
nihilistic sentiment--
nothing matters, perhaps
nothing is real to begin with, but it's worth it to live out the
illusion if you've got something (or someone) else to
hold on to.
This is the contrast of
depravity and
pointlessness with a sense of
redemption, and I think few people could find that completely without worth or interest.