I stand on the brink of your mind
Living inside a nightmare from which
I just cannot awaken
Stand on the edge of your life
Just give me another moment
From which I will never awaken

Stand on the brink of my own demise
Fallen again for another
Mistress of burden
To idolize
Hoping that one of them will decide
To let me in

To stand on the edge of the knife
Cutting through the nightmare from which
I just cannot awaken
Stand on the edge of the night
Living inside a moment
From which I will never awaken

Stand on the brink of my own demise
Fallen again for another
Mistress of burden
To idolize
Hoping that one of them will decide
To let me in

Look at what you've done to me
You've become my enemy
Poisoning the world for me
Take away my everything
Weakened as I am

Stand on the brink of my own demise
Fallen again for another
Mistress of burden
To idolize
Hoping that one of them will decide
To let me in


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    I consider that the song is about the hardship brought on by idolizing women (thus the name of the song “mistress”). “I stand on the brink of your mind”/” Stand on the edge of your life” may represent the lack of importance given to him by the woman he desires or simply his incapacity to understand her (her thought/her mind/her in general). “Living inside a nightmare from which/I just cannot awaken” emphasizes the suffering of the man bound to deify women. “Just give me another moment/From which I will never awaken” is a plea to the mistress of his mind, begging her to allow him to admire her regardless of the pain that that brings. Therefore, the tragedy resides in his conscious awareness regarding his situation. I think that the lines “Mistress of burden/To idolize” represent the theme of the song (that of suffering due to total abandonment of self through idolizing women). “Hoping that one of them will decide/To let me in” shows again the duality of the situation: the wish to break free from this desire and the incapacity to feel fulfilled without it. “To stand on the edge of the knife/Cutting through the nightmare from which/I just cannot awaken/Stand on the edge of the night/Living inside a moment/From which I will never awaken” highlights again the desire to escape but the incapacity to do so. In the last lines he painfully realizes that obsession and over-admiration (as all excesses) leads to self-destruction and the transformation of the mistress into an enemy. “Take away my everything” symbolizes the loss of one’s self. The word “my” is meant to emphasize the importance of being an individual. One can consider the song the opposite of the androgyny myth (where the perfect being was split into two (the man and the woman) and the two spend their lives searching for each other in order to recreate that perfection). The song talks about the importance of not losing yourself in the other completely, about trying to keep a bit of you as well.

    standingontheedgeon June 20, 2009   Link

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