A terrible signal Too weak to even recognize A gentle collapsing The removal of the insides
I'm touched by your pleas I value these moments We're older than we realize ...in someone's eyes
A frequent returning And leaving unnoticed A condition of mercy A change in the weather
A view to remember The center is missing They question how the future lies ...in someone's eyes The gentle collapsing Of every surface We travel on the quiet road ...the overload
.. standing at the outer limits of knowledge, on its deathbed, but before its reached its time. "A view to remember The center is missing" When you compare this song to the earlier tracks like Crosseyed & Painless about a mania driven by an obsession with facts and logic, this song is like the subdued aftermath of the mania, in which the narrator reaches the state of ubiquity that comes after being denuded of everything but facts. "They question how the future lies ...in someone's eyes" In the end there's no truth except what our individual perspectives convince us is the truth (sounds like Seen And Not Seen doesn't it?). He's overloaded with this lucid worldview, it empties him, weakens his signal, causes a collapse, and sends him down a more quiet, less verbose road.
As an anecdote, I feel like I was once on that quiet road, and I rejected this song. The lyrics didn't carry anything meaningful for me other than a particularly unfavorable perspective on the situation, I used to skip it. Maybe I hadn't drifted as far, maybe I had drifted farther, maybe I was just up my own asshole about the whole thing. But it's tone just always seemed to me melodramatic (while without any logical flaws), and shed an inappropriately negative light on a truly and utterly neutral phenomenon. But I guess that's what you have to expect by imposing words on a situation that nullifies words. https://songmeanings.com/threads/c/73016253808/