Those sheets remind him of the poor times at his childhood home- "I'm drowning in time to a desperate beat"). Perhaps the reference is either to the sheets at his old home at the "wrong side of town", or perhaps those are the sheets at some hotel room during a band tour. He feels like the band is his home, like that's what he was meant to do his entire life. I think it's directed at his bandmates, and Dave in particular ("singing these tears"- Martin writes most of DM's lyrics, thus his tears are in his lyrics. They never manage to escape "the wrong side of town" and rise above it.
Coming from a poor, "bad" neighborhood is a deadly trap, and a cage- as many people never manage to escape these circumstances and end up poor and bourish just like their parents. I think that the references to a "cage", "heavy cross" and "the deadliest trap ever laid" aren't necessarily talking about drugs, but about the circumstances in which he was brought up, where he started out his life. He feels like he belongs on a stage, but again- he's got no one to make that dream come true with. The musical references make it more obvious to me that the song is about the band and his musical career- the "loneliest sound" "pounds from within" him, it's his passion and his true calling, but at this point he isn't able to discover it and make it happen.Īnother reference to a musical career- an empty stage. He hasn't found his true "home", thus the feeling of loneliness and being bound to the ground and pinned down- petrified and crippled by his feelings of loneliness and despair. He's feeling the sound punding within him, but he's got no one to play it with, thus it is a lonely sound. He's "bound to the ground by the loneliest sound", meaning he's got no ones to create his music with, and he hasn't found his real friends yet. It starts before the band was formed, where he started out: the "wrong side of town", lack of opportunities and possibilities created by a poor socio-economical state, perhaps. And the band made it possible for him to achieve all that. The band members are his true friends and partners, and in the band he feels like "home"- that's where he felt like he should've been his entire life, that's what he was meant to do. were bound to keep him trapped in a state of poverty and despair for the rest of his life, and prevent him from developing and fulfilling his musical aspirations and achieving his dreams.īut once he found his band mates, who gave him the chance and format to create music and help him realize his dream, he gives them credit for "saving" him from his destiny and giving him the chance of rising above it. He felt like the place he came from and his "status" etc. I think he's talking about his life before the band, how the circumstances were against him and his passion to make music (poverty, bad socio-economical state etc.). My InterpretationActually, I think that this song is about the band and his friendship with its members.
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