| Meshuggah – I Am Colossus Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I (the planet earth) Makes sense? | |
| Meshuggah – Disenchantment Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Catch 22" was a novel based on life's many contradictions,"Catch 33" burrows many of the same underlining ideas. The album revolves around a character who feels enslaved to his own mind and feels unable to cope with the aburdity of society's norms, shattered hopes and dreams, the realization of there being no exit; not even suicide. He witnesses painful atrocities taking place world wide, as well as in his own life. He is baffled by the rest of mankind's capacity for apathy,wondering what sets him part from living an enjoyable and "normal" life like his peers; Amazed at how others could wander about life aimlessly with a smile while not being crushed by the weight of their own guilt. He questions wheather it is truly him who has a problem. His Neurotic thought patterns finally get the best of him,leading him to believe that his peers, his own mind, and the earth itself (manifested into a functioning conciousness) join together to scrutinize and ridicule him "I stay my breath to escape this slavery" means he attempt to kill himself through some form of suffocation. "I stay my breath, to reawake and face it encore" means that if the idea of an after-life or better yet reincarnation exists, he would be doomed to repeat living through another form. "The struggle to free myself from restraints becomes my very shackles" means the very act of suicide just dooms him to start his existence over again. This is one of my favorite Meshuggah albums, the fact that I think this character makes more sense to me then rest of the "sane normal people" I'm surrounded by is a contradiction all on its own. |
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