Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet Lyrics

I love this riff 5:04

Remember this coming out in high school, discovering weed and girlfriends, night drives back from her house, skinny jeans and band practice, long texts and Myspace quizzes, getting lost in Porcupine Tree. Every argument felt so important, every kiss so supremely divine, every day filled with rollercoasters of angst and joy. It was so..... perfect. ❤️❤️❤️

actually not bad

5:04 *Mikael Åkerfeldt has joined the chat*

Liked it so much i gave the artist his due and bought the CD.

Did Steven just write this to indirectly shit on Pearl Jam?

Dec 2019?

I think at the very beginning of the song he’s typing “ fear of a blank planet”

You are a worm through time. The thunder song distorts you. Happiness comes. White pearls, but yellow and red in the eye. Through a mirror, inverted is made right. Leave your insides by the door. Push the fingers through the surface into the wet. You’ve always been the new you. You want this to be true. We stand around while you dream. You can almost hear our words but you forget. This happens more and more now. You gave us the permission in your regulations. We wait in the stains. The word that describes this is redacted. Repeat the word. The name of the sound. It resonates in your house. After the song, time for applause. We build you until nothing remains. The egg cracks and the truth will emerge out of you. You are home. You remind us of home. You’ve taken your boss with your boss with you. All hair must be eaten. Under the conceptual reality behind this reality you must want these waves to drag you away. After the song, time for applause. This cliché is death out of time, breaking the first the second the third the fourth wall, fifth wall, floor; no floor: you fall! How do you say “insane”? Hurts to be happy. An earworm is a tune you can’t stop humming in a dream: “baby baby baby, yeah!” Just plastic. So safe and nothing to worry about. Ha ha, funny. The last egg breaks now. The hole in your room is a hole in you. You came and we let you in through the hole in you. You have always been here, the only child. A copy of a copy of a copy. Orange peel. The picture is you holding the picture. When you hear this you will know you’re in new you. You want to listen. You want to dream. You want to smile. You want to hurt. You don’t want to be.

THE definition of COOL!

5:01 is one of the sickest fills in the history of the world

That chorus is just fucking amazing

Everyone liking the drums, but I also have to admire the bass in the composition

The song that introduced me to PT. Along with Dream Theater, gods of prog.

This shit is so real...

Love it

Masterpiece

This song didn't save my life, but it made my day

Boomer lyrics

Fucking Idiot the Apocalipsis is for people like you.

Fucking idiot

I loved my son so much and failed as a parent too listen. He struggled in school because of his ADD and I wished I had seen the signs. This song brings back painful
memories, you will always be in my heart Jake.

has he passed??

Control as a game deserves to sell well. Thank you Sam Lake for this amazing
piece of adventure.AND HOT DAMM, I hope Jessie will meet Alan in person.
A conversation they can have could lead to some really interesting
conclusions.

I think Jesse will help A.Wake escape, than we might get Alan wake 2.

is there a better mix of this song? The production is horrible.

@Pyramid Head it's the truth. They should have done a better mix of the Masters. The voice is too quiet, guitars don't pop out a d drums are way too loud.

I have no idea what I'm getting myself into. Wish me luck for this trip.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION!!! That’s what that movie’s called!

Is this in it ? :O

@DawnWatch it's a quote from game called Control

Control sent me.

The best part of the song 5:04

Best and Divine part of it....Tears rolling seeing the Guitarism

Take Control, “Maybe I’ll never understand. Maybe I don’t need to.”

Control 👍🏼👏🏼

Andrade ?

So glad to see this in Control

“Maybe I’ll never understand. Maybe I don’t need to.”

yeah nice to see PT recieve a bit of mainstream recogition!!

There's also that indie game which is basically "Drive Home: The Game". At least in aesthetic.

@TranscenGopher yeah, i know. The soundtrack was made by Steven Wilson.

2:58
2007: OMG this is sooo deep 😢
2019 *BIG M O O D*

The intro makes me want to stay a while and listen.

British

Label: so how many time signatures did you use?
Steve: yes

Perfectly coins the emptiness of modern synthetic life. Brilliant thanks steven wilson

The lyrics on this are so real nowadays...

Their best album

an unstoppable wave, momentum, that rarest thing.

Everyone's hyping for new games ETC, Here I am sitting waiting for this song to appear on Spotify.

best lyrics ever done

The pills that I've been taking confuse me

Only just discovered this band, I fucking love there sound

Will never get enough of it.

Pretty much my childhood. Slight differences, as im a bit older like playstation over xbox, and drugs i sought out, not prescribed...

Me too!

The lyrics are so good and thought out and they just keep comming at you

Stoner anthem

I wish this was on Spotify

"xbox is a God for me" such a lame line

replace it with "smartphone" and it fits today perfectly

05:00 is probably the best drum fill ever...

8 months later, I still cry everytime...

Yes sir . ..No Travis Orbin No Virgil Donati , no Boby Jarzombeck ...No Viennie ..Mr.Gavin Harrison ..yes ..i know ..all this drummers are my heroes ..but The best fill is this one. PERIOD.

Yes ..complex creativity and musicality at the same time ....genius level .

Lol, I've stumbled upon this by accident, but it's fuckin' awesome. That's goooooood music. Anesthesize is also fuckin' A!

130 cucks NEVER heard REAL music

Steven wilson is god of music

Yup. Steven Wilson and Mikael Akerfeldt are just on another level.

where's the video ? it was awesome , probably my favorite band discovered through scuzz !

Sunlight coming through the haze
No gaps in the blind
To let it inside
The bed is unmade
Some music still plays
TV, yeah it's always on
A flicker on the screen
A movie actress screams
I'm basking in the shit flowing out of it
I'm stoned in the mall again
Terminally bored
Shuffling round the stores
And shoplifting is getting so last year's thing
Xbox is a god to me
A finger on the switch
My mother is a bitch
My father gave up ever trying to talk to me
Don't try engaging me
The vaguest of shrugs
The prescription drugs
You'll never find
a person inside
My face is mogadon
Curiosity
has given up on me
I'm tuning out desires
The pills are on the rise
How can I be sure I'm here?
The pills that I've been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There's nothing left, I simply am not here
I'm through with pornography
The acting is lame
The action is tame
Explicitly dull
Arousal annulled
Your mouth should be boarded up
Talking all day
With nothing to say
Your shallow proclamations
All misinformation
My friend says he wants to die
He's in a band
They sound like Pearl Jam
The clothes are all black
The music is crap
In school I don't concentrate
And sex is kinda fun,
but just another one
of all the empty ways
of using up a day
How can I be sure I'm here?
The pills that I've been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There's nothing left, I simply am not here
Bipolar disorder
Can't deal with the boredom
Bipolar disorder
Can't deal with the boredom
You don't try to be liked
You don't mind
You feel no sun
You steal a gun
To kill time
You're somewhere, you're nowhere
You don't care
You catch the breeze
You still the leaves
So now where?

Tú tan Fear of a blank planer y yo tan Paranaoid android...

Yup. Because it's huge, vibrating, rotating, with all sorts of different settings, while she's high as hell with the world telling her she's a fucking queen.

How can i be sure im really here?
The pills that ive been taking confuse me...

"There's no such thing as a perfect song", they say. And Steven Wilson goes and makes a metric fuckton of them, including this one.

My favorite PT album, it flows perfectly.

Steve Wilson has a way of teasing out a riff that is just so delicious. The 5 minute mark... how do you not move to that?

Wow this how this is no longer relevant. Good for it's time tho. GOING INTO 2019.

Nvm I took it too arbitrary.

I think this is just as relevant in 2018 as 2007

If you respect this .. go buy the Album so you can respect yourself

Steven Wilson is a talented eunuch living with a abused shit eating eunuch living with a abused shit eating eunuch

Dat fuckin fill

Tom Woods sent me here!

Horrible

What tf is wrong with you

What, your life?

Horrible ? ..jajajajaja ok .

xbox is a god to me

Sehrn >GUt ;-)

My uncle, my idol and the one who showed me this band died but he left me the hoody from this album. Love and miss him, glad he showed me so much.

Sorry for your loss. It's special when you have someone like that My Dad & I occasionally listen to his vinyl collection of classic rock bands (Led Zeppelin Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Your uncle was a man of great taste...may he rest🙏🏾

I go hear Tailor swift n come back here to know taste of music

I remember this song live during a show of PT. Amazing performers and musicians.

What's this song about anyways ?

It's about young people these days living an aimless, pointless, nihilistic life, thanks to poor upbringing, and filled with depression and all kinds of mental illnesses.

This record is a MASTERPIECE. It fits in the same category as Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. It is absolutely EPIC and should go down in the various music halls of fames as unprecedented. LOVE.

How did a 40 year-old man write a song that so succinctly captured my experience being a teenager in the 2000's, while it was happening no less?

the soul never gets old.

2000s era prog metal with didactic lyrics? I'm down

Hearing this makes me want to suicide

The lyrics are a bit "I'm a victim" ,Steve Wilson is very smart,nothing worse than super smart people playing the dumb and Victim card in lyrics to get dumb people to buy the record in droves,that's a great tactic.
Super rich rock stars playing the "why Me' card while the true dumb and bullied are still that,dumb and bullied.
Good businessmen,playing on dumb people by putting themselves in that "character"
As a person who is a musician and struggled with depression,I find this disturbing.
Dumb or the true victims don't play 5 instruments and mix music like a demon,they can't even get a youtube video up or join a band.

the lyrics are a critic

it's from a conceptual album that talks about the way young people usually live now

all the time anesthetized, without feelings

is what makes this song art.

4:30 - 5:04
Outstanding combination of guitar, drums and keyboard

That eerie dissonant piano riff they throw in is awesome.

here cause some jerkoff said this sounded like godsmack serienity. WRONG> BLOWS> im gone.

Shredders !!!

"You steal a gun to kill time"

My father ever gave up tryna talk to me

I can play the beginning of this song but guitar

attension les enfants regardent

I have bipolar disorder and I feel very identified with the boredom part and that everything is just a killing time activity because nothing really matters.

Something has to change
Undeniable dilemma
Boredom's not a burden
Anyone should bear
Constant over stimulation numbs me
But I would not want it any other way

It's not enough
I need more
Nothing seems to satisfy
I said
I don't want it
I just need it
To breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive

I just came here to run from a Tool obsession phase...

Tool!! 😍

@irishharry95 That's not sober its stinkfist

a band that shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as Porcupine Tree.

Yes, Stinkfist has very thought provoking lyrics ..

Why i cant find this in spotify?

Gg 15 you can find the live version in the anestetize album

all PT albums from the label Roadrunner got pulled at some point :/

like in the middle of the game. when looking around. searching a key

Sup free thinkers?

This song kicks so much ass

Using only one time signature per song?
Not on my watch!

Awesome!

BEST BAND EVER

Excellent

Gavin Harrison on the drums is something else..... Damn.

Jackhammer.

Along with everyone else, I miss PTREE.

This is the first song I heard from this great band and as soon as I heard the lyrics "... they sound like Pearl Jam ... the music is crap" I knew I was gonna like this band and SW's lyrics.

Literally helped me through Bipolar II suicidal meltdowns. One of the greatest albums EVER!!! I am clean now and on my Lamotrigine :) LIFESAVER along with PT.

Congratulations Brett.

Glad you found a medication that allowed you to become stable. It is quite a search for most of as you know. Ironically, Paxil, the least well tolerated of all anti depressants, was the one that works for me :D
I have been on Lamictal the mood stabilizer before tho, I remember it was sublingual and tasted like pixie stix :D
It's certainly better than depakote or lithium tho - especially lithium! UGH!

Love this song very much!!!!

10 years later this is still my jam

0:06 darude-sandstorm