This may just be the delicious Sam Adams Imperial White brew talking, but I'm getting the feeling that there is, like most dt songs, several things going on here. Dtfan1 isn't entirely incorrect in the interpretation presented, and neither is Nilatir. But (and that's a big butt) there is something else going on here that is not evident on first analysis. If you look at the artwork that's presented on the YouTube still, you can see there is some heavy symbolism going on with the image of the unicyclist riding off in to apparent infinity (or nowhere) on a rope that is about to break behind him. That appears to be symbolic of the whole "forgetting you past will doom you" trope. I also think that has something to do with the lyric "we spiral towards disaster" in that the rope itself is obviously a spiral and the unicyclist is heading to destruction. I'm still working out what exactly the colors of his outfit mean, other than maybe it has something to do with "McDonald's" which has been for a while a representation of everything that is wrong with American consumerism. But anyway, feel free to pick apart this analysis as much as you want as it is fueled by high abv beer.