Silent tyranny: paranoia (thinks he/she is being followed, the silent tyranny is the NWO representing the conspiracy theories) Ghosts and shadows: hallucinations (maybe from schizophrenia, maybe from drugs withdrawal)Įat my soul: Cottard syndrome (as he/she seems to be death in life)Ībsent gods: psychosis ("if you talk to God you're religious, if he talks back you're psychotic") Men in cloaks: depression (as they seems like dementors) It's about assisted suicide, but this time to get rid of MENTAL illness, I mean, the song mentioned a pile of different mental illnesses and references to mental health: There's a few religious allusions in the song ("soul" and "absent gods"), and I think the protagonist is aware of the unfeeling things that he's done, aware of the part he's played in propagating the system - and he's asking for forgiveness from a (possibly religious) authority figure for his sins. The dual meaning, however, is that he could also be asking for mercy in a spiritual sense. ![]() It's a common theme that jaded people are attracted to the innocent, precisely because they want to be saved from the callous way of life that they've created. "Show me mercy" can be interpreted as the protagonist asking to be saved by someone who hasn't succumbed to the psychopathic system - anyone who's still innocent, still noble, still untarnished. Moreover, I think there's a dual meaning to the hook. Another line that alludes to this is "Men in cloaks always seem to run the show". They'll always be more jaded, more coldly rational, more psychopathic. "I tried to infiltrate, but now I'm losing" - He tried to be like the people who hurt him, but it isn't working because they'll always be better at it than him. "Help me, I've fallen on the inside" - the person that he used to be, noble and hopeful and full of life and humanity, has been replaced by one who's disconnected and incapable of true human connection. ![]() Mercy, however, offers us a moment of rebellious self-awareness - the protagonist realizes that his strategy for survival is hurting him. In these earlier songs, the message is that the rational thing to do while living in a psychopathic society is to become psychopaths ourselves - it's how we adapt and survive, after all. But he doesn't see it as hurting others - he thinks he's doing other people a favour, by ridding them of their naivete the same way he lost his. He was hurt in the past now he'll hurt others. In Dead Inside, the protagonist embraces his loss of innocence - "Now I'm dead inside" and "You've taught me to kill with no remorse" - hardening himself and becoming a callous, unemphatic human being in order to survive. In Psycho and Dead Inside, the protagonist succumbs to the disillusionment that every human being goes through, becoming every bit as jaded and psychopathic as the modern world encourages him to be. ![]() The meaning is fairly straightforward if you analyze it in the context of the other songs in the Drones album.
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