Labyrinth

this song to me is about the feeling of being alone and stranded when everything around you is changing, including you, but you dont notice yourself changing until everything has changed again.

You know how you used to be really close to someone, and then you don't see them for a long time somehow, then when you finally see them again, you realize that they have been living their own life this whole time, without you, and they have changed from the person you used to know. (that was a total run on sentence!)The author is desperate to know if things are still the same between these two. But it's not, because time has passed, and the other person is not the same person they were back then. Everything has changed, or is it the author himself who has changed?

At first I was pretty sure that it's a song about someone going insane. But this morning, I thought of something else...what if it's about somebody who has a fever, and that fever is causing them to go insane, they don't know if they're dying or if the world is ending (pardon the run-on sentence). When you get a high enough fever, you will go into convulsions...Either way, I think in general this song is about a person going insane and being lost in their own mind.

This is how it feels to be in a bipolar low. Everything is the same, but none of it is the same. It’s the same sun in the same sky but it’s not. The sun is cold, and the sky is wrong. Everyone insists that things are the same as they were yesterday or last week when you were happy, but they’re not. They can’t be. How can they not see that it’s all different… not the same at all... any of it. It’s like everyone is gas-lighting you, expecting you to accept their madness. In the end you give in and accept that everything has to have changed or it’s you.

This song captures that feeling perfectly.

this song to me is about the feeling of being alone and stranded when everything around you is changing, including you, but you dont notice yourself changing until everything has changed again.

I don't find this to be a sad song at all. I think it's someone surprising him with a change for the better against the odds.. Yeah tell me it's all the same This is how it's always been

But if nothing has changed... Then it must mean... But the sun is cold - the sky is wrong The stars are black - the night is gone The world is still - the space is stopped The time is out - the day is dropped The house is dark - the room is scarred The boy is stiff - the bed is hard The blood is thick - the head is burst The taste is dry - the kiss is thirst

He says if nothing's changed then all the bad things.. Something changed, and there's improvement.. But maybe I am whacky...

I adore this song.. As far as I am concerned, Robert Smith & Co. can retire and unretire when ever they want. I have not always understood him, but I have appreciated them since Disintegration..

This always reminds me of The Kiss off of "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me", really has that same overwhelming dark feel about it. Apart from this time he's not screaming "I wish you were dead!"

It's like "Lost". Being lost inside yourself, and can't keep up with yourself. "It's not the same you", he is changing, so are you.

I think that the title explains everything. a person feels he is in a "Labyrinth". totally lost, confused, desperate. What he sees in the present, has no connection with what he remembers from the past. well, maybe I'm overstating a little, but it makes me think of... Ariadne's thread. As long as we hold the thread, we feel safe. Apparently the times (or he) have changed too quickly and he got lost. Anyway I think that He has changed, that torments much stronger.

A song about change. The lyrics refer back to an image from the song "Push":

Exactly the same clean room Exactly the same clean bed But I've stayed away too long this time And I've got too big to fit this time...