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Painful Detour Lyrics
Time elapsing
Storm running out
Sorrow less beauty
Ready to doubt
Stronger than ever
Weak at the bone
Hide from the open
Turn into stone
Underneath a freezing winter
All alone
Superficial friendly gesture
Dead and gone
Spend my days searching places
To belong
Stranded in a painful detour
What went wrong?
Massive agenda
Shivering ground
Building a castle
Foundation unsound
Never suspected this beauty to be
Carving deeply into my stone
Gathering round me, yet feelings dilate
A new dimension of feeling alone
Simple surroundings
Complexity near
Not what it seems like
Covered in fear
Storm running out
Sorrow less beauty
Ready to doubt
Weak at the bone
Hide from the open
Turn into stone
All alone
Superficial friendly gesture
Dead and gone
Spend my days searching places
To belong
Stranded in a painful detour
What went wrong?
Shivering ground
Building a castle
Foundation unsound
Carving deeply into my stone
Gathering round me, yet feelings dilate
A new dimension of feeling alone
Complexity near
Not what it seems like
Covered in fear
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Feelings of despair and depression come to me from this song. The scenery is set in a cold stormy area (in which humans tend to feel isolated) ... this is simply a metaphor for how they feel.
The chorus speaks of the despair they feel being trapped in their world of depression. They try to find a way out ("to belong") but they just can't escape their life / depression. It is a "painful detour" in life that they've taken (from the "path" ... which is a general metaphor for "life") ... and they don't know how to address it (depression ... how to get back on the path of living).