Magic Doors

I don't know why so many people say it has something to do with sexual orientation. Or maybe its just me, cause I'm not a native speaker so I might be just not getting smth. Personally I always thought the song is about depression so deep that you have suicidal thoughts revolving in your head.

The first words are actually a perfect illustration for depression: "I can't deny what I've become, I'm just emotionally undone, I can't deny, I can't be someone else". When you're depressed, you only feel what a mess you are, unable to feel any other emotions. We all wear different masks and act in differnrt ways with different people, but you don't have enough emotional strength for that when you've got depression.

All the lines describe depressive feeling so well, and these words - "Try to resist my thoughts But I can't lie" - for me it was like "I know that suicide is wrong but I can't lie to myself that there's something worth living for here". And after that "often I've dreamt that I don't wait, enjoy the gift of my mistake" - suicide is wrong - a mistake - but she desires the death so much that dying is a pleasure.

Well, probably everyone just hears what they want to hear :)

Be true to yourself!

Or else you'll shamble through life lost, confused, purposeless--like one of the walking dead (hence the deadlined EKG tone we hear at the start).

Trying to avoid going too deep into Beth's personal life, I think this song has to do with the struggle of a different sexual choice. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Hmm, the more I think about it, the more that seems plausible. And not just for this song, but the whole album. I don't want to sound too presumptuous either, but the album's preoccupation with self-identity, true desires, and guilt makes me wonder if it could all be about a struggle of sexual orientation.

Food for thought.

The lyrics just seem very existential to me. Not about sexuality or anything like that. Rather the general existential condition, which causes us to live an unauthentic life to conform to external, social demands. And yet, despite trying to be other than who we really are, we can't ultimate escape ourselves, even though we don't know ourselves who we are.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, that's the same impression I got as well. The hints we were given in songs like Elysium seem to have gotten a lot more concrete.

Oh and btw, it's not really an EKG flatline tone, it's a TV signal tone.

love the remix of this song. :)

Does anybody else hear the "Happy Together" vibe of this song? This song is about the constant struggle with oneself's emotions - insecurities, let downs, not finding your place in life. I have the feeling Beth's lyrics are rarely autobiographical. Rather, I like to think of her as a story-teller. Or just European. Either way, love her lyrics!

The music is amazing, the lyrics are as well. wow, is just SO amazing and perfect.

This song arouses me.