Acceptance

[Hurt]

That's what I see in this song. The narrator's searching for acceptance, for love, for something to help them swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.

The narrator is obviously very frustrated with life (boredom's not a burden anyone should bare) and thinks that some kind of relationship can make up for this. Through the song they beg for acceptance and make offers they can't stand by. "show me that you love me and that we belong together relax, turn around and take my hand"; "blend and balance pain and comfort deep within you 'til you will not want me any other way"

No matter how far he gets in his search, the narrator never feels complete. "It's not enough, I need more, nothing seems to satisfy. I don't want it, I just need it, to breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive." Even closer to the end of the song, the narrator's still getting frustrated and confused to the point that he needs to scream, "I'll keep digging 'til I feel something!"

The narrator steps aside and looks at himself, and the world, and realizes WHY he never feels complete. "There's something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be... desensitized to everything... what became of subtlety? And how can this mean anything to me... if I really don't feel anything at all?" This revelation makes the rest of the song come much easier for him. He finally understands what's going wrong; and yet uses the same scapegote (love) to try and fix him...

[creativenrg]

I agree with your view about the song, and would like to suggest an additional perspective...
I interpret this song as our society's tendency to want bigger, better, faster (cars, money, food)...all the while losing sight of what's true, honorable, and real (love, friendship, honesty). I see it during the few times i watch TV, using the media as a sort of social gauge. Back in the day it was considered obcene for a woman to show legs, now ..well, just watch MTV for a while.
We're a society of extremists, and though pushing the envelope is a good thing, what direction are we pushing it in? Seems most of what we hear, see, and are exposed to is completely opposite of what our society claims to be aiming for. While we speak of peace and tolerance we constantly portray violence and conflict on our media, and it's worstening.
Often times, people who are of this extreme, addictive, unbalanced nature will not be satisfied today with activities that satisfied yesterday. The taboo subject of choice, sex, is a particularly good example. Hence the increase in the industry of anal pornography and rough sex pornography. The models have to be younger and younger..until we suddenly find ourselves in the child pornography issue.
Slowly, but steadily, our society becomes more and more like that which it attempts to repress. In the case of our narrator, in an attempt to find life's meaning (fight boredom), (s)he has chosen a sexual activity, and, much like any addiction can, this activity has gone awry and taken control of him/her.
I find the song, overall, to be a lesson in moderation. Personally, i'm of the opinion that nothing is wrong so long as A) it's done in moderation and B) it's done with every participant's consent.
This song is a call for balance and moderation by showing what follows if we are lacking in these virtues.

[satsumafutant]

Yes, wow....I just realized w/ Hurt's post how much I relate to this song. Wow....I've had Aenima for two years and I notice something different about it everytime I listen to it. Also, it is funny that as humans, we do disgusting acts such as what Hurt said about trying to find as much love and friendship as we can or what creativenrg said about us constantly pushing the envelop and trying to kind of 'customize' every single thing we can...material or human and yet, we, most of the time anyway, don't ever think about how it affects that person, if it is a person you are using or the people that witness the actions.