I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Stand aside now no one will survive can't tell you how I know
In some time I will change my name and lay low
In the light you can see me walk down by the way
The one who did this to us well he got away
Keep it quiet here I will not tolerate your noise
This is where I listen for the forgiving voice
It haunts my dreams
In some time I will change my name and lay low
In the light you can see me walk down by the way
The one who did this to us well he got away
Keep it quiet here I will not tolerate your noise
This is where I listen for the forgiving voice
It haunts my dreams
Lyrics submitted by Disposition_987, edited by Mandragore
A Premonition Lyrics as written by Fredrik Norrman Anders Nystrom
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Absolutly amazing song IMO. One of the most melancholic songs ever from Katatonia. The song IMO is about a guy who finds out or witnesses something shocking and horrible which forces him to run and dissapear but the things he saw still haunt his dreams. Or a tottally different possibility is that he himself did those horrible things and now is forced the flee but this line: "The one who did this to us well he got away" contradicts that possibilty IMO.
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It's about something immoral the narrator did...something very bad...but not unnecessarily causing lots of death. I think the whole "no one will survive" is just used to show how powerful his regret is. He knows what he did was wrong and understand it, has come to terms with it, but doesnt want it to spread any further, thus he says the man who did it got away. And since he has come to terms, he just wants to move on. He doesnt need people breathing down his neck over it...or have the situation continued to be discussed (keep it quite here. I will not tolerate your noise) He is also deep down waiting hope and needing someone or something to tell him he can stop beating himself up over it so he can live again.
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