Story Behind The Song

I had a passing acquaintance with a man diagnosed with schizophrenia. His life was a wreck while doctors loaded him with pharmaceuticals in apparent desperation to come to some understanding of his condition. I think there is more to this story than meets the eye.

Song Description

are doctors using patients as guinea pigs? are doctors slaves to the pharmaceutical companies? do doctors overprescribe? do doctors REALLY know what they are doing? - how much is guesswork? (especially where psychiatry is involved)

Lyrics

I see you gaze into the distance
is there somewhere you'd rather be?
are you just staring into darkness
(counting stars - making plans)
or are you defying gravity

seeing patterns in the twilight
seeing signs where none exist
the box is open - or is it broken?
is there something we have missed?

chorus
is it random or is it planned?
is the answer there in your hand?
the thin line between
your world & mine
is just a matter of
space & time

instrumental I

late in the nighttime
you hold your memories in your fist
a dated photograph (and you ask yourself)
was life really once like this?

if you could only stop the voices
that prattle in your head
to relieve the pain...& be whole once again
it's hard to remember, but it's so much harder to forget

chorus
is it random or is it planned?
is the answer there in your hand?
the thin line between
your world & mine
is just a matter of
space & time

instrumental II

the doctors claim
that they will make you well again
(though nothing ever really seems to work)
with a drop of this
and a grain of that
so with their drugs keep you insane

chorus
is it random or is it planned?
is the answer there in your hand?
the thin line between
your world & mine
is just a matter of
space & time

chorus
is it random or is it planned?
is the answer there in your hand?
the thin line between
your world & mine
is just a matter of
space & time