The video was pulled from their show at London’s 10,000 capacity Alexandra Palace and it is taken from their recently released live album Live At Alexandra Palace 2.
Live At Alexandra Palace 2 is the companion album to Take To The Skies : Live In Moscow 2017.).
Rou Reynolds said of the track: “generally the lyrics are about ‘perception management’ – believing what one wishes it to believe, regardless of whatever the truth may be.”
What he said to ME though (he dumbed it down to make it easier for me to understand) is that it’s basically about social media and how create our own false persona and present that to the world.
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