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Alone in the World Lyrics
You’re gone
You’re lost in a world of your own design
Alone,
Humanity’s long since been left behind
And would you believe that I once felt your pain?
(Although it’s far behind me now)
It seems so strange to me that in pain you still believe
And I see a light ahead
A template for all my ambitions
Life lays bare before
Meaning disinterred
I’m welcoming my liberation
Moral,
You call me what you will and cast me away
I know
And in the depth of my ignorance I’m not afraid
And would you believe that I once felt your pain?
It seems so strange to me that in pain you still believe
And I see a light ahead
A template for all my ambitions
As a new day dawns
On an empty world
I’m welcoming my liberation
I’m alone in the world
A husk fading petty and destined
And I stay my mind
From futile tries at
Reaching for exoneration
I’m lost in the stars above
Consumed in my reflection
Distracted from my condemnation
They join me in consciousness
I can’t
Remember a time when days flickered
Like their cold light
Care passed like season
And love was free of all reason.
My reason is as trivial as senses pervaded by a final nostalgic scent
I inhale once more
Knowing the dreams I won’t live don’t matter
(Leave It Behind)
You’re lost in a world of your own design
Alone,
Humanity’s long since been left behind
(Although it’s far behind me now)
It seems so strange to me that in pain you still believe
A template for all my ambitions
Life lays bare before
Meaning disinterred
I’m welcoming my liberation
You call me what you will and cast me away
I know
And in the depth of my ignorance I’m not afraid
It seems so strange to me that in pain you still believe
A template for all my ambitions
As a new day dawns
On an empty world
I’m welcoming my liberation
A husk fading petty and destined
And I stay my mind
From futile tries at
Reaching for exoneration
Consumed in my reflection
Distracted from my condemnation
They join me in consciousness
Remember a time when days flickered
Like their cold light
Care passed like season
And love was free of all reason.
I inhale once more
Knowing the dreams I won’t live don’t matter
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I think the song depicts someone who has given up. I think the idea of the second half of the song being someone else could be true, but for me its the same person. He has replaced complacency and apathy for pain. I believe that he is lying about liberation and freeing himself in the first half of the song and rather its an attempt for him to finally break free but like the thousand times before, he only gets psyched up and then fails. Great song and Caligula's Horse is amazing and a very underrated band.
Not sure what the artists intended, but to me it speaks of either depression or guilt. That the narrator once was heavily depressed or felt a great sense of guilt. This was their pain, but they've now seen the light (getting better) and perhaps now looking back on it are surprised at the pain and hurt that it caused them.
However the song seems to shift focus after the instrumental. Could this perhaps be a response from the person the narrator talks to in the first part of the song?? That is this more sombre melody and lyrics seem to suggest to me that this person is in a similar state that the first narrator previously was (i.e. they are depressed or feeling a great sense of guilt).