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Doppelgänger Lyrics
Can you hear me when I'm trapped behind the mirror?
A doppelgänger roaring from my silent kind of furor?
If you're quiet, you can hear the monster breathing…
Do you hear that gentle tapping?
My ugly creature's freezing.
And now's he howling, but I'm muted by the horror.
How he's everywhere and waiting,
Now he's just around the corner.
Paranoia backward whispering on my shoulder,
Like a wasp is getting nervous, so if I shiver… man, it's over.
A doppelgänger roaring from my silent kind of furor?
Do you hear that gentle tapping?
My ugly creature's freezing.
How he's everywhere and waiting,
Now he's just around the corner.
Like a wasp is getting nervous, so if I shiver… man, it's over.
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I think this song is about a man who is blind to his reflection. He doesn't realize that 'ugly creature' is him.
Can you hear me when I'm trapped behind the mirror? A doppelgänger roaring from my silent kind of furor?
Essentially saying that it IS him behind the mirror, no matter what...
If you're quiet, you can hear the monster breathing… Do you hear that gentle tapping? My ugly creature's freezing
Himself is the monster, he is hearing his own breathing. He can hear himself tap the mirror, and he is cold...for some reason...
And now's he howling, but I'm muted by the horror How he's everywhere and waiting now he's just around the corner
He realizes that he is the moster, and that he is always waiting...
Paranoia backward whispering on my shoulder like a wasp is getting nervous, so if I shiver man, it's over
He is too scared of the monster, and is sent into a paranoia so bad, that if he even moves, he believes he is dead...
Amazing song, one of the best off of the new album.
As a person with anxiety and depression issues, I could totally reflect all of my feelings on this song. The ugly creature of this song is, in fact, depression at its worst. The line that hits me the hardest is ‘if you’re quiet you can hear the monster breathing’. My reason behind this, is as disturbing as it sounds. Every day I wake up and I must fight the monster, fight it for it to stay trapped behind the mirror, fight for it to not replace ‘me’. And indeed if I’m ‘quiet’ meaning not occupying myself with different activities/positive thoughts, I can surely hear the monster and I freeze, wishing for it to go back behind the mirror. But if I’m weak and ‘shiver’ it eats me and replaces ‘me’. Every hour of every day I hear it whispering and howling, I feel it everywhere I go, the cold feeling of its presence leaves me breathless sometimes. It’s there, waiting for me to become nervous and it’s over. I love this song, it makes me feel safe, by knowing there’s someone out there feeling what I feel.