Art is open to interpretation until the artist closes the door and tells you what the inspiration is. The writer of Slipknot's Through the Glass was on Never Meet Your Heroes this week and the host asked him if it was a love song and he said it was a hate song because he wrote it while on tour in Sweden trapped in a hotel room with food poisoning with nothing to do but watch bad music videos on MTV Europe. So he probably just ruined that song for a lot of people.

I can't listen to Happy Now because Jon explicitly said it was about Obama winning the election so if I hear it I think of Obama and thinking of politicians generally makes my blood boil so the song might as well be called Pissed Off Now for me.

So as far as I'm concerned, it's okay with me if Jon never tells us what he had in mind when he wrote Touch of Grey or who he had in mind when he wrote All Hail the King because the mystery is part of the appeal of the art. Let it mean different things to different people. Why not?

We can still have fun sharing our interpretations.