Excerpts form "An Animated Description of Mr. Maps"

Catchy yet enigmatic, "An Animated Description of Mr. Maps" is one of those songs that I just want to "figure out." It's almost to the point of inaccessible, but certain elements--dominant beats, literary lyrics and nostalgic audio samples--are hooks that keep me engaged in it. The narrative in the lyrics is delivered with an efficiency that paints vivid fragments, but keeps the meaning of the whole song a puzzle.

Lines like:

He had no trouble recognizing patterns in the most delicate arrays of tangled lines,

but he had a strange fixation on partaking in nefarious things:
"Stealing, lying, cheating, gambling, fornicate..."

or

He saw red, but he thought five

These lines make me want to create some truth, even if there was none to begin with. Does it just "smell like content" and is simply fractured, seemingly profound?

The song is a portrait of "Mr. Maps," who is either a number-color synaesthete--as the song suggests--or, more deeply, an allegory for Modern Man. What meaning can I read into this song?

Could this be material for a modern-day Emblem book?

Full song and some theories on the meaning, see esp. Salty Kevin's post:

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858564244/


Here's a loopy one:

He willed away the miles while quixotically attempting to reclaim his inner child,
he was embrangled and enmeshed in something far too loud to comprehend:

"I want all of the American people to understand that it is
understandable that the American people cannot possibly understand."

--The Books, Lost and Safe