I Am Madness Quotes

Okay, okay, maybe the speaker is just being poetic. But maybe he's not. Maybe he really feels like he can see his woes "rise and vanish" right in front of him. This is a little crazy, don't you think?

It is possible that "noise" is a description of how the speaker perceives the sounds around him. In other words, perhaps his mind sometimes hears people talking and interprets it as "noise."

We can't imagine that a perfectly sane person would perceive life in this weird dreamy kind of way, so these lines offer a subtle clue as to the speaker's mental state.