Breaking Glass

I've wanted to post this for a while now, but never got around to it.  I'm sure everyone remembers Dr. Bogad's example of people walking around with a pane of glass in front of them, only noticing it when something happens to scratch, blemish, or crack that glass.  My favorite song, Through Glass by Stone Sour, has a music video and lyrics that I think represent that.  When I first heard it, I thought it was a great song. And then I listened to it again and started to pick apart the lyrics and realized how they had a deeper meaning than I would have thought.

Corey Taylor, the singer/frontman of Stone Sour and Slipknot, wrote this song because he was sick of the artificiality that Hollywood was showcasing.
The above 2 links are quite short, I encourage you to read them.

I'm putting a few lines in bold that I think are particularly relevant.  The music video for this is very fitting, so I suggest watching it, rather than just listening and reading the lyrics at the same time.

Lyrics (c) Stone Sour

"Through Glass"

I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home sitting all alone inside your head

How do you feel? That is the question
But I forget.. you don't expect an easy answer
When something like a soul becomes
Initialized and folded up like paper dolls and little notes
You can't expect a bit of hope
So while you're outside looking in
Describing what you see
Remember what you're staring at is me

Cause I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
All I know is that it feels like forever
When no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head

How much is real? So much to question
An epidemic of the mannequins
Contaminating everything
When thought came from the heart
It never did right from the start
Just listen to the noises
(Null and void instead of voices)
Before you tell yourself
It's just a different scene
Remember it's just different from what you've seen

I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
And all I know is that it feels like forever
When no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head

And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That shine for you
And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That lie to you.. yeah-ah

I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head

'Cause I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
All I know is that it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your heaaaaddd

And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That shine for you.. yeah-ah
And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That lie to you.. yeah-ah

And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That shine for you.. yeah-ah
And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That lie to you.. yeah-ah yeah

Ohhhoh when the starrs
Ohhh oh when the starrrrs that liieee