Slow Motion - Third Eye Blind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ibfvjv4uxE
I don't think this is the official music video because I don't think they made one, but I found an interesting video with some clips trying to explain some of the video.


LYRICS
Miss Jones taught me English
But I think I just shot her son
'Cause he owed me money
With a bullet in the chest you cannot run
Now he's bleeding in a vacant lot
The one in the summer where we used to smoke pot
I guess I didn't mean it
But man, you should've seen it
His flesh explode

Slow motion, see me let go
We tend to die young
Slow motion, see me let go
What a brother knows
Slow motion, see me let go

Now the cops will get me
But girl, if you would let me
I'll take your pants off
I got a little bit of blow we could both get off
Later, bathing in the afterglow
Two lines of coke got cut with Drano
And her nose starts to bleed
A most beautiful ruby red

Slow motion, see me let go
We'll remember these days
Slow motion, see me let go
Urban life decays
Slow motion, see me let go

And at home
My sister's eating paint chips again
Maybe that's why she's insane
I shut the door to her moaning
And I shoot smack in my veins
Wouldn't you?
See my neighbor's beating his wife
Because he hates his life
There's an arc to his fist as he swings
Oh man, what a beautiful thing
And death slides close to me
Won't grow old to be
A junkie wino creep

Hollywood glamorized my wrath
I'm a young urban psychopath
I incite murder for your entertainment
'Cause I needed the money
What's your excuse?
The joke's on you

Slow motion, see me let go 
Oh yeah 
Slow motion, see me let go 
Slow motion, see me let go 


MEANING
I have listened to this song tons of times and I absolutely love this song. A lot of people listen to this song and think of all the things like doing cocaine, shooting people, and beating wives and completely misunderstand the message that this song is trying to send. I tried to find the actual meaning to the song online and couldn't find much but what I feel like what goes on in the song is that we see all these things that go on on TV and movies and in celebrities lives and they are in "slow motion." It is about how we see these things and interpret them, with others seeing some of them as "beautiful" when in reality, they are just disgusting. It could be a coincidence that I know this song so well for class and this blog but in a way it shows how the media has interpreted how we look at things. One other way to look at it is how in life we look at things in a certain way and ignore the true beauty of them, but these are the two meanings I could figure out.