Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
If I struggle a lifetime
What would my body be?
An empty shell
On what a demon fed
Could be a heavy burden
To stay true to your words
Speak up
I wanna silence everything
If I got no plan
Doesn't mean that I get what I want for free
If I got no meaning
Would you force me to a place where I make sense?
'Cause nothing lasts forever
How do I get home?
Everything revolves around you
If I can't find myself?
As you're so completely fake
How do I get home?
Everything revolves around you
If even you can't help?
Dark nights from my soul
I deny failure
I Ignite
Woe is on my misery
She wins all their eyes
Realize what they find's not fate
This is not me, this is me
So if I struggle a lifetime
What good would that do?
If I got a plan
Doesn't have to stop the feeling inside
If I do make sense
Would you drag me down?
'Cause nothing lasts forever
How do I get home?
Everything revolves around you
If I can't find myself?
As you're so completely fake
How do I get home?
Everything revolves around you
If even you can't help?
Dark nights from my soul
What would my body be?
An empty shell
On what a demon fed
Could be a heavy burden
To stay true to your words
Speak up
I wanna silence everything
If I got no plan
Doesn't mean that I get what I want for free
If I got no meaning
Would you force me to a place where I make sense?
'Cause nothing lasts forever
How do I get home?
Everything revolves around you
If I can't find myself?
As you're so completely fake
How do I get home?
Everything revolves around you
If even you can't help?
Dark nights from my soul
I deny failure
I Ignite
Woe is on my misery
She wins all their eyes
Realize what they find's not fate
This is not me, this is me
So if I struggle a lifetime
What good would that do?
If I got a plan
Doesn't have to stop the feeling inside
If I do make sense
Would you drag me down?
'Cause nothing lasts forever
How do I get home?
Everything revolves around you
If I can't find myself?
As you're so completely fake
How do I get home?
Everything revolves around you
If even you can't help?
Dark nights from my soul
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AH! They play so well together in this song. Everything fits so smoothly. In Flames and Pendulum should do a whole album together ha.
This is clearly a Buddhist-inspired song.
Three marks of Buddhism: impermanence (nothing lasts forever), not-self (the phenomenal world is not 'me'), and dukkha (everything that is impermanent/not self sucks and must be transcended). To the song we go:
"If I struggle a lifetime, What would my body be? An empty shell, On what a demon fed"
If I live my life in dukkha (not enlightened), what would this body have been? An empty shell (it is empty of a 'self'), on what a demon fed (the demon being this false notion of 'self').
"Could be a heavy burden, To stay true to your words Speak up, I wanna silence everything"
Becoming enlightened is known as 'laying down the burden' in the suttas, the burden of ignorance of the truth that eliminates dukkha.
"If I got no plan, Doesn't mean that I get what I want for free If I got no meaning, Would you force me to a place where I make sense? 'Cause nothing lasts forever"
the last line is obviously about impermanence. not sure about the others. maybe, will i undertake this path to become enlightened?
"How do I get home? Everything revolves around you" How do I find a safe plaec? everything revolves aroudn 'you' (this false notion of self) "If I can't find myself? As you're so completely fake" can't find a self anywhere (read the anatta sutta), and the self isn't real anyway
"How do I get home? Everything revolves around you If even you can't help? Dark nights from my soul" "dark night from the soul" is a commonly known part of the spiritual path where everything starts sucking balls.
"I deny failure, I Ignite Woe is on my misery, She wins all their eyes" maybe 'ignite' a reference to practicing ardently, as if your turban was on fire. maybe 'she' refers to 'woe' refers to 'Mara', the demon responsible for evil things in buddhist cosmology.
"Realise what they find's not fate, This is not me, this is me So if I struggle a lifetime, What good would that do?" 'this is not me' 'this is me' - finding what is self and isn't
"If I got a plan, Doesn't have to stop the feeling inside If I do make sense, Would you drag me down? 'Cause nothing lasts forever" not sure here.
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Is this song about the Jungian idea of the shadow?