Solaris

The sample is actually in Swedish i think he says "Ja det kanske man skulle kunna om det inte var så sent, alldeles för sent. Men då blir världen allt jag pratar med. Words, words words"

Translated it's something like "Yes that maybe one could do that if it wasn't so late, all to late. But then the world will be the only thing to talk to. " I don't know where its from maybe some old swedish movie. Maybe some Ingmar Bergman movie?

i believe the majority of this song is a reference to science fiction story "Solaris" by Stanistw Lem, involving a planet who's ocean is an immense 700 billion ton sentient, intelligent organism.

its about destroying creativity and something amazing and feeling regret and trying to convince yourself that what you are doing is right the best thing for everyone. ive never read Solaris though so i dont know what it could be.

Anyone know if the sample in this song is actually from the original Russian film version of Solaris? It sounds like it could be.

I've always wondered about that sample. "Words words words" is always what I interpretted it as. There would be no proper way to cover this song without that sample.

wow no haha ...yes its about the russian film solyaris..

and yeah the sample sounds like snaut talking

I doubt its a sample from the film because it sounds like english "words words words". the film was entirely in russian.

There's references to meditation techniques such as slowing the breath. Freezing my time could refer to meditation or maybe the dream state where time seems to slow down.

"I'M ON AN OCEAN THAT HAS A BRAIN AND MAKES US DREAM"

This clearly refers to what Freud and Jung termed the unconscious mind, the contents and archetypes of which create our dreams. The ocean refers to water which is a universal symbol of the unconscious mind, and it has a brain is so much as there would appear to be some kind of intelligence external to our conscious intellect that drives it's functions.

Overall, like with all the tracks on this album it probably refers to being high as a kite on smack and that dreamlike state you achieve when you're tripping. I've not seen the film Solaris but I understand it's premise and this is the vehicle this track uses for the addiction metaphor. Another beautiful tune by Failure.

can people please post something WITHOUT citing homosexuality, Freud, Jung and drugs? This website is one big mirror that reflects everyone's own thoughts and ideas. The big ocean thing? Solaris IS AN OCEAN PLANET. So, it actually has nothing to do with Freud and Jung's metaphors of whatever.

Ironically, that's what Solaris is about, to a great extent -- mirrors. So, in a way, this whole website is a reflection of that. Jesus said so! He's gay, too! It's all about drugs! Sometimes it is. But sometimes it's not -- a far under-represented viewpoint here

I think the whole song is about the Shakespeare play Hamlet as the excerpt is from Scene II when Polonius asks Hamlet what he is reading and he says "words words words".

"I've been slowing my breath" relates to the motif of Hamlet's inability to act.

"Are you thawing out my head?" relates to two lines in Hamlet's famous motif "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!"

"I'm on a mission to escape from what my life has been without you." Hamlet missed his father. "I've been treading on ghosts" Hamlet listened to the Ghosts orders to kill Claudius. "I want you to get out..." King Hamlet is trapped in a ghost state to roam the kingdom, because he couldn't confess his sins.

Now why may Failure write a song about Hamlet? I think it has more of a suicidal meaning behind it because Hamlet had a strong suicidal meaning or I think it maybe is to avenge one of their fathers.