Is Steven Wilson Not Here?

Henry Plainview wrote: He is also mildly obsessed with trains.

Trains will always be worthy of getting obsessed with.

Maybe he Wishes You Were Here?

Dean wrote: Marty McFly wrote: Good point - was SW ever here on PA ?   Dean wrote: He used to be here, then he asked for his account to be removed and now he's not here.

Thought it was a joke - continuing of a word game.

But even so, maybe he is still stalking here, account-less.

Edited by Marty McFly - December 22 2011 at 03:32

Marty McFly wrote: Good point - was SW ever here on PA ?

Good point - was SW ever here on PA ?

Short on ideas?  Or maybe thinking the same thing all the time?  Stuck in a rut?

All that redundancy, the hurry-up-and-wait, listening to the same measure of music hundreds of times, frustrating soundchecks, answering the same tired questions in interviews, more sitting around and waiting, crappy food and shady hotels, playing in a different city every night to crowds that start to all look the same.

Well if he were here, I'd like to know just where in my house he's hiding...

Sounds like a lyrical theme that he likes to implement. A lot of artists have certain unique ideas that they're really fond of and put in their lyrics. In Steven Wilson's case, I guess its the idea of a person existing, yet not truly existing, or at least in his view of what it means to exist as a human being (a view I agree with on a lot of points). Thus the first person narrative speaking "I'm not here" even though they're the person saying it, and thus would logically be where they are at the moment of saying it, but ironically they themselves are void of the things that make human existence different from any other kind of existence, namely beauty and possessing an intrigue of the world around us as humans.

Or its just a clever-sounding thing to say.