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Dr. Dog vocalist Toby Leaman makes a play on the idiomatic expression “*put on the shelf*, ” implying that he has essentially been made useless since he’s never really been in love – and he’s fine with that.

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These lyrics, are likely a reflection of a time (pre-2005) during which Reznor found himself struggling with addictions to alcohol, cocaine, and one very close bout with heroin. Having been rehabilitated, Reznor feels like he’s been given a new chance at life. And he’s trying to figure out what that road even looks like.

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This song is littered with religious imagery. The phrase “gone astray” is used multiple times throughout the Bible in the ongoing metaphor of God being a shepherd and humanity being his flock:

We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

- Isaiah 53:6

Also, the term “found my way” is a phrase often used by born-again Christians as a response to this “sheep” metaphor, indicating that they no longer stray from their shepherd.

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This may be a direct response to Our Plans, during which Baldi croons:

Original
It’ll never get old
Essential
It’ll never get old

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Defeatist ennui similar to the kind found on Cloud Nothings“Our Plans”:

No one knows our plans for us
We won’t last long

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This “psychic trauma” may be CN vocalist Dylan Baldi’s attempt at giving a name to the feeling of déjà vu a person gets before experiencing an emotionally damaging event.

This may also be a conscious allusion to The Strokes‘ single “Hard To Explain.”

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As of the 2012 census, there are 8,336,697 people living in New York City. With that many faces and that many transient encounters in your everyday life, it’s easy to feel like an anonymous outsider, cf. Friedrich Nietzsche.

Many, such as Morrison, find empowerment in this fact. Being simply a face in the crowd makes it all the more easier to enjoy the small things in your life without fretting about national or global concerns.

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Morrison thought he would be at least remotely well off, able to live in the comparably expensive Midtown Manhattan. He’s finding trouble eating three square meals a day, instead finding sustenance in his own nervousness.

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That’s the Flushing Express, which runs from Manhattan to Queens. Upon moving to the Big Apple, Dismemberment Plan vocalist Travis Morrison blindly bet on Queens as his new hometown – not unlike Eddie Murphy in Coming to America.

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Another nod to McComb’s own wanderlust lifestyle, he notes that he used to live in “cars, on couches and at campsites.” He could be referring specifically to crashing not at a literal motel (no motel offers pro bono service), but rather a makeshift motel at Maryland’s Oregon Ridge Park:

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