| Katatonia – The Longest Year Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Cynic fatalism with a hint of optimism that lays just out of reach of the songs subect. | |
| OSI – Bigger Wave Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Or, maybe, the "bigger wave behind this one" is just talking about waves and states of consciousness. Every epiphany, every overcome challenge, and every piece of self enlightenment gained is something that actually brings him worry because he has noticed that it doesn't lead to some kind of safety or salvation but is just confronted with another wave to sift through. | |
| OSI – Bigger Wave Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me Bigger Wave opens up with a description of our ego as a mask. OSI seems to have an affinity for creating a seperation between aspects of existence such as an almost Freudian psychological break-down and, even further, seperating that entire model from the physical form we as conscious beings exist within. There seems a focus on super ego temperance in the first verse that can be pretty easily seen by the almost call-response format the lyrics take, like an internal dialogue. "I was thinking we could walk on the water And still find reasons to swim inside" That's the only lines in the song that give context to the nature of the wave. It's a very kinesthetic representation of two very different processes that reach between external and internal. The relative vagueness paired with a sense of optimism seems to me like it want's us to pay more attention to the seperations of self. The fact that they then point out a bigger wave beyond that is where I think I find the theme of this piece. As far as I can tell it's a a comment on the overwhelming and freeing nature of overcoming the imposition of these archetypical egos from hollow expectation. A lot of songs from this album all seem to go along the theme of observing or seperating from certain egosocial paradigms.Maybe I'm looking too much in or am way off base but I just see OSI's music that way: layered and complex through it's simplicity. |
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