The song "Apophenia" by They Might Be Giants is about recognizing that the world is sometimes a strange and unpredictable place, and learning to accept that. The narrator is trying to talk some sense into someone who is experiencing delusions about the world. The person is seeing patterns and meanings in mundane things like street lights and tea leaves, interpreting them as divine messages, and the narrator is trying to tell them that this is simply not true. At the end, the narrator acknowledges that even though he is trying to get the other person to accept reality, everyone still has a feeling in their gut that cannot be easily tuned out.