Hello friends!!! Specially to 'The Fixer', well here is a new thread, about the meaning i give to Prospekt's March, well and here it is:
The first part of the song, about "smoke is rising form the houses", I thinkit refers to the sunrise, or a moment in the morning, 'cause you know when the sun is rising in themorning, from all places it rises also a kind of "fog", I associate this to the beginning of something, maybe by the context of the song, to the change of the society, the beginning of a new era.
In the next line, "people bury in their dead", it's so clear, I think it refers to the end of the "past times", because when the life of somebody ends the body is buried, the past line of the song talks about a new beginning so, this one should be the end.
The next two lines, "I ask somebody what the time is-but time doesn't matter to them yet", I think is because he (Chris in this case) feels a little alone, because he's different from all the society, he cares about 'time' but he doesn't know exactly what it is and he's trying to discover it maybe here the time is like the life, so he's trying to discover what life is and maybe why's so difficult.
In the next part, "People talking without speaking", he listens that the society is saying something, he knows they're talking, but nobody says anything, no one has the answer for his question, and he's feeling confuse.
"Trying to take what they can't get", people always is after something, but even when teh people knows that they can't achieve some things, peoplr always try to take it from one way or another, and it doesn't mater who they destroy to achieve it, so itis so clear too, and I totally think it's all about the society.
The next two lines, "I ask you if you remember-Prospekt how could I forget?", Maybe he's talking to himself, or to his innerself, he's Prospekt because he's exactly that, a prospekt for the life, somebody that wants to change, that wants to be different, but I have another understanding for it, maybe he met the love in another person, and he's told her this story, and he asks her, If she remembers it, and she says, Prospekt (becaus ehe's her love prospekt, he's different form everybody else, he's special) how could I forget?. If this is relationed to the first two lines, maybe it refers to the beginning of the relation, the end of another.
"Drums, here it comes", here I think is a little obvious, drums are before a presentation, or before something important, and here it comes means to the change in my first interpretation, and in the second one, means exactly the same, the change in the relationship.
"Don't you wish your life could be as simple, as fishes swimming 'round in a barrel when you've got the gun?" Here means that he, or maybe his 'love' wishes that the life could be esier, that he/she could control everything in his/her life, and this is an important part from the first lines, he's talking about life the life I took as the time in the beginning of the song.
"Oh and I run" He's scaping from the society, I think so
"here it comes" the same, just that here it comes.
"We'e just two little figures in a soup bowl" In my first interpretation, it refers to himself and his innerself, they're just two little figures in comparison with all the else society, and in teh second only changes he and his love, are just two little persons too.
"Trying to get behind a kind of control" They're trying to get behind the control of the society they're trying to change, to be different, and trying to make their own control.
"But I wasn't one" He's not completely alone, he's with his innerself, or with his love.
"But here I lie on my own in a separate sky" But he's there, alone with himself, or alone with his love (when you really love a person is said that you and your couple are justone), in a separate sky, because of their difference, the society does not accepts him/them.
"I don't wanna die on my own here tonight" He doesn't want to be alone when the society puts him apart, he feels alone for being different, because of the society, and he needs himself or his 'love' for not be dead alone.
Well this is my interpretation, I feel veryidentificated with this song forsome thing ofmy life, and I gave the second interpretation because I'm in love so, I hope you enjoyitand youleave another interpretations, I'd like to see some, to share ideas ya' know.
Thanks... I LOVE YOU PATY...
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