![]() compelled to capitulate), he is “kind”, in that he does not put up any type of resistance.Īnd there is also an unidentified addressee alluded to near the end of the verse. It’s not abundantly clear what Flowers is saying to this individual. So with that foreknowledge, we can say that in the first verse the singer is presenting himself as being akin to an object on a factory “line”, so to speak. And as he’s ‘brought up to the platform of surrender’ (i.e. So with that idea in mind, it becomes more apparent that Brandon is not literally singing about the act of dancing. Rather the primary inspiration behind that quote centers on the masses being socialized to blindly comply, with the mention of dancers only being a metaphor or allegory. And as confusing a line as “ are we human, or are we dancer” may be to many listeners, therein lies the secret of deciphering the meaning of this song. That is to say that said line was inspired by a quote which, in its entirety, reads that we are “ raising a generation of dancers, afraid to take one step out of line”.
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