This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Me – the paragon of fear, an immobile skein of tangled nerves exposed
Hastily clawing my way into the darkest of my inner scenes of torture
I stay my breath to escape this slavery
I stay my breath to re-awake and face it encore
The struggle to free myself of restraints, becomes my very shackles
Hastily clawing my way into the darkest of my inner scenes of torture
I stay my breath to escape this slavery
I stay my breath to re-awake and face it encore
The struggle to free myself of restraints, becomes my very shackles
Lyrics submitted by Bloodmouth
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Great version of a great song,
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I'd just like to point out that, "The struggle to free myself from restraints, becomes my very shackles," is the greatest line I have ever heard/read in a song. That is all.
buddhistic philosophy in heavy metal. most of meshuggah's work deals with such ideologies. check out frederich thordendal's special defect "sol niger within" album... it even has the ancient langauge of "pali" in it...
stay my breath to escape this slavery... perhaps this refers the practitioner of meditation. a yogin's determination and goal to be free from the bonds of existence... hence "stay my breath to re-awake and face its encore" meaning... digging deeper into the practice to open one's "third eye" to experience englightenment... and awake... buddhist scholars tend to portray enlightenment as the "waking up" from the long slumber of ignorance...
HOD
"disenchantment" or snuffing out the flame of passion, being after all... the final goal of a buddhism.
we really need to see the whole catch 33 album as a complete picture... each song playing a vital part in the construction of the album... the album is after all a "concept" album.
HOD
"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.
Thanks for the insight. Didn't even have the feintest idea of what this meant. Kick ass CD though...although the grind on the first riff a little too long.
I recognize the term disenchantment from Max Weber's theory of the development of capitalism from the Protestant work ethic. It's the calculation of everything, a turning away from prior magical beliefs. When we calculate everything, the world becomes cold and disenchanted, and we encase ourselves in an iron cage of rationalization