Perhaps I was too influenced by “We are all just prisoners of our own device” and “we are programmed to receive” but I always thought of it as a tragic example of AI gone wrong in either alien vessel or time travel machine (possibly through infernal intervention). The vampire explanation works too but in that case I would wonder a bit about how any vampire would permit “mirrors on the ceiling” given their known distaste for the things. @_@
I knew a guy who swore the song was about the band’s experience with Anton LeVay and his Satanist cult.
Of course, the guy *was* a pathological liar, so a heaping helping of skepticism is not only appropriate, but absolutely necessary.
That said, it makes as much sense as any other theory I’ve heard, and makes for a good story, with lots of Hollywood tie-ins.
Perhaps I was too influenced by “We are all just prisoners of our own device” and “we are programmed to receive” but I always thought of it as a tragic example of AI gone wrong in either alien vessel or time travel machine (possibly through infernal intervention). The vampire explanation works too but in that case I would wonder a bit about how any vampire would permit “mirrors on the ceiling” given their known distaste for the things. @_@
I knew a guy who swore the song was about the band’s experience with Anton LeVay and his Satanist cult.
Of course, the guy *was* a pathological liar, so a heaping helping of skepticism is not only appropriate, but absolutely necessary.
That said, it makes as much sense as any other theory I’ve heard, and makes for a good story, with lots of Hollywood tie-ins.