This song is about how the development of earth by scientists and discoveries will lead to the fall of our world after that it have rised, because of the pollution, violence, extinction, ozone hole, global warming,…etc. The thetawaves and all the other stuff they mentionned in the song are the symbol of development and urbanisation. And they compared time to a midnight ride, so it starts in a brilliabt way and you’re excited and then it ends up with being caught up by the police or crashing into another vehicule, so all this flurishing society will pay for the crime it has committed. Furthermore, SOAD insists on the fact that Finality awaits after all that, because humans are not able to put limits to their thinking and to their mental and senses' capacities.