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Crawling all over, behind ears and behind words
When you are alone and you’re not one of the boys and girls
You fall out of your web, dancing on a crooked ledge
You’re falling of the edge
Is someone going to end up dead?
There is no cure
I am my only curse
No way (I’m sure) to get this spell reversed
The Filistata crawling all over my head
It’s like I always caught up, safe in the messiest of webs
But when it falls out (and like my mind falls out of me)
It’s hard to get back in
It’s hard to regain sanity
Up on a cliff doing the dance
What happens if I lose balance?
Constantly creeping away from people and from noise
While everyone’s sleeping I’m scared to death
It’s not my choice
There’s a web inside me, behind my eyes, it pounds and pounds
There sits Filistata
It’s growing there but makes no sound
There is no pain
Just hate and empty tears
Blind, hollow eyes and webs over the ears
And in the end will I have wasted years?
When you are alone and you’re not one of the boys and girls
You fall out of your web, dancing on a crooked ledge
You’re falling of the edge
Is someone going to end up dead?
There is no cure
I am my only curse
No way (I’m sure) to get this spell reversed
The Filistata crawling all over my head
It’s like I always caught up, safe in the messiest of webs
But when it falls out (and like my mind falls out of me)
It’s hard to get back in
It’s hard to regain sanity
Up on a cliff doing the dance
What happens if I lose balance?
Constantly creeping away from people and from noise
While everyone’s sleeping I’m scared to death
It’s not my choice
There’s a web inside me, behind my eyes, it pounds and pounds
There sits Filistata
It’s growing there but makes no sound
There is no pain
Just hate and empty tears
Blind, hollow eyes and webs over the ears
And in the end will I have wasted years?
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I think this song is clearly about being an outsider and the subsequent difficulty of retaining your mental sanity as one. The key line is "When you are alone and you're not one of the boys and girls."
You have to build your own safe world to dwell in, your own (way of) life, but if the attempt fails (due to a clash with dominant signfications or the majority of society), the vanity of it all ("Will I have wasted years?") will mess your mind up.
I believe this song to be about Anxiety, specifically social anxiety and trying to fit in. A filistata is a genus of spider, so it alludes to the fear of fitting in and being outcast, which i will henceforth call the anxiety, as a spider. \n\n"When you are alone and you’re not one of the boys and girls" signifies this as you are not part of the group, you are alone. \n\n"There is no cure\nI am my only curse"\nsignifies that you see no way out, maybe you have something about you that is stigmatized or you find differentiates yourself to much from the group. \n\n"The Filistata crawling all over my head" signifies that they anxiety is taking over at this part of the song\n\n"safe in the messiest of webs" is a key to show that the web is a safety web we put in place for ourself, maybe a ritual we do, maybe alone time, maybe a secret we can go back to in the comfort of our own solitude.\n\n"Up on a cliff doing the dance\nWhat happens if I lose balance?" refers to trying to mimic others to fit in, and worrying about what happens if you do something wrong. \n\n"Constantly creeping away from people and from noise" creeping is a word often attributed to spiders, so this is a comparison of o0ur behavior under the control of the anxiety to that of a spider. \n\n"And in the end will I have wasted years?" is the stark ending, in the end, when you get over your anxieties, you realize you have simply wasted your time and energy doing the dance and trying to fit in.
this is such an awesome song. constantly away from people and from noise. tis the song about the famous filistata spider. wonder what it feels like