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Inside What's Within Behind Lyrics
can't run away from the thing in me
I'm weakening down another now developing within
I can feel it it's inside my head
Connected to my brain this other me is slowly taking over
deep beneath the eye that all can see energetic visions of the one
I know myself to be
Look into my eyes
don't listen to their lies
How can I stop this from being real
No my life will be no longer what it always used to be
Life neglected infected by strain
I fall into the smothering the even flow of ravaging pain
This my temple of selfcaged contempt
a body slowly pierced by inevitable me
Do I differ from yourself am I like they say
The truth eventually I'm the one you wanna be
Can you feel the same as I another inside
Pushing to free itself from the chains
Of the soul
Turn your eyes toward the inside
Dig deep within I'm sure you'll find
A different self a different soul
To put you in peace with mind
I'm weakening down another now developing within
Connected to my brain this other me is slowly taking over
deep beneath the eye that all can see energetic visions of the one
I know myself to be
don't listen to their lies
No my life will be no longer what it always used to be
I fall into the smothering the even flow of ravaging pain
This my temple of selfcaged contempt
a body slowly pierced by inevitable me
The truth eventually I'm the one you wanna be
Can you feel the same as I another inside
Pushing to free itself from the chains
Of the soul
Dig deep within I'm sure you'll find
A different self a different soul
To put you in peace with mind
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Best song title ever xD
It seems like the speaker is evolving a new identity or that a new self is invading his mind. This "other me ... slowly taking over" is similar to the transformation in "Sublevels," only in this song there's more of a duality. The speaker's new self attempts to persuade the old self to abdicate, and despite some reluctance, the old self eventually accepts. The last two stanzas suggest that this self-within-a-self is not unique to the speaker, but that every person can feel the same struggle within themselves. To embrace the new self is to "put you in peace with mind." If schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder ever needed a theme song, then here it is.
As for the title, I think Haake went a little preposition-crazy. I could see "Inside what's within" being a kind of ultra-introspection that looks within the within, but the addition of "Behind" at the end? Yeah, I have no idea.