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Sep 13th 2017!⃝As an American who has been through the mental health process to "make myself well" I find a deep and heartfelt meaning in the song. The first time I heard this song I was laying on a bed with my es closed just after a counseling session where my therapist had just recommended medication to help "solve my problems". I'd been on medication before and felt it had suppressed my inner self ("maybe I should cry for help... maybe I should kill myself...").
The song seemed to me like his inner self communicating with his outward consciousness. I saw it as follows:
SAIL!
(This line always a plea from the inner to the conscious mind to let it be free)
This is how I show my love
I made it in my mind because...
(The inner self trying to explain its reasons for the way his mind works.)
Well Blame it on my ADD baby...
(This from the outward self rationalizing something in day to day life every time it is said)
This is how an angel dies
I blame it on my own surprise... (inner self not expecting surpression by medication)
Well Blame it on my ADD Baby...
SAILx5
Maybe I should cry for help
Maybe I should kill myself
(Inner self debating whether to fight the medication)
Well blame it on my ADD Baby...
Maybe I'm a different breed
Maybe I'm not listening
(Inner self rationalizing its own existence relating to the outward world as it fades behind the medication)
SAIL!!! (From here to the end of the song is musical expression of the dualistic struggle with the medication and the inner self begging to be set free, to SAIL)
I know it's my own interpretation but we all bring as much to art as it brings to us. After seeing the music video I would add that the frantic singer is the inner self when viewed from this frame and that the aliens removing him are the medication coming for the subconscious mind.
Just one man's opinion.
