Where are you?
Are you hiding from me?
Are you still looking for things that no-one else can see?

Where are you?
Are you in some place that we cannot reach?
Are you bathing in moonlight or drowned on the beach?

Where are you?
Are you surrounded by things we cannot penetrate?
Is the cage you love the home you also hate?

Your fear of death attracts such strange objects
Smothering you, hiding you, don't let it spoil you
Show yourself so the others may see you
So the others may feed you
They want to be near you

If you can't get enough of your hypnotic injection
Then it's time to put an end to this invalid function
Poor little ghost boy
Let me be your human toy

Where are you?
No-one's seen you for years
Have your wounds grown wings? Are you feasting on fears?
I can see your dark corona is eating into you
You're surrounded by things we cannot penetrate
Is the cage you love the home you also hate?
Life lies with the scissors inside her
The surgeon was a butcher
All of us are wounded, anaesthetised in A.E.
Numbed by stuff we should not see
Each of us lies bleeding
Our rivers intermingling
Poor little ghost boy
Let me be your human toy

I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage
I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage
I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage
I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage


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  • +1
    General Comment

    the meaning I think is about a lover who's died.. they still feel their presence, they lose their mind.. They have someone who's into that shit with contacting ghosts who tries to find him one night.. with a group of people.. maybe he was an addict, and a paranoid, violently disturbed, lonely person.. same with the narrator (lover).. talks of life.. dark stuff.. the song speaks for itself. The echoes like a banshee song..

    DJgifon September 19, 2009   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    this could be about someone addicted to drugs. sleazy talks about how they started doing drugs because they were looking for some way to feel ecstatic without having sexual intercourse in the time when AIDS was on the rise. he talks about this here: youtube.com/watch

    just read those lines with that idea in mind... kind of obvious, isn't it?

    "are you surrounded by things we cannot penetrate?"

    "Your fear of death attracts such strange objects Smothering you, hiding you, don't let it spoil you"

    "If you can't get enough of your hypnotic injection Then it's time to put an end to this invalid function Poor little ghost boy Let me be your human toy"

    awesomoon January 30, 2017   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    holy shit this song is so cool and creepy.. poor little ghost boy..

    DJgifon September 06, 2009   Link
  • 0
    My Interpretation

    I immediately got the impression this song was about Cancer.

    Ahlocianon January 21, 2024   Link
  • 0
    My Interpretation

    'Where are you? Are you hiding from me? Are you still looking for things that no-one else can see?'

    • Worrying if you still have cancerous cells or if they will reappear.
    • Metastasis - traveling through the body forming new tumors.

    'Where are you? Are you in some place that we cannot reach?'

    • Non reachable tumor/cells.

    'Are you bathing in moonlight or drowned on the beach?'

    • Moonlight = Internal
    • Beach = External

    'Where are you? Are you surrounded by things we cannot penetrate?'

    • Deeply impeded, hard or impossible to reach.

    'Is the cage you love the home you also hate?'

    • Thrives/Lives in the body but also destroys it.

    'Your fear of death attracts such strange objects'

    • Cancer spreading, hard to eliminate. As if it's scared of death it moves around the body.
    • Strange objects being medical instruments.

    'Smothering you, hiding you, don't let it spoil you'

    • Chemo shrinking cancerous cells.

    'Show yourself so the others may see you So the others may feed you They want to be near you'

    • Cells growing, spreading.

    'If you can't get enough of your hypnotic injection Then it's time to put an end to this invalid function'

    • Killing the cells. Ending the illness.

    'Poor little ghost boy Let me be your human toy'

    • It can be invisible but it takes control of the body.

    'Where are you? No-one's seen you for years Have your wounds grown wings? Are you feasting on fears?'

    • Cancer reamerging and growing. Cells spreading for fear of death.

    'I can see your dark corona is eating into you'

    • Cell becoming cancerous.

    'Life lies with the scissors inside her The surgeon was a butcher'

    • The life/scissors are the cancer cells, cutting away the body.
    • Wounds from surgery.

    'All of us are wounded, anaesthetised in A.E. Numbed by stuff we should not see'

    • Cancer patients on medicine. Distress from the ward.

    'Each of us lies bleeding Our rivers intermingling'

    • Rivers of blood.

    'I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage'

    • Death bed.

    ~ This may be an overly logical interpretation. At times I also thought it could relate to heroin addiction. Please let me know what you think.

    Ahlocianon January 21, 2024   Link

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