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I've often hit the nail on the head
And yet I was merely strangled
I've often called the voice of my life
And yet it was merely the past
If I should see the future beaming with joy
I will forgive myself
Tell me the meaning of my life
Tell me the meaning of forgiveness
Tell me the meaning of my death
And why I'm a murderer
I've often dared, but defeat caught my eye
So many years I believed in myself
All these years without any success
All these years without, like a dilettante
Tell me the meaning of my life
Tell me the meaning of forgiveness
Tell me the meaning of my death
And why I'm a murderer
A whole life full of mistakes
A whole life in order to resist
My tears are filling up an ocean
A character in a play
Always the same things in my hand
Tell me the meaning of my life
(Of my fucking life)
Tell me the meaning of forgiveness
Tell me the meaning of my death
And why I'm a murderer
Tell me the meaning of my life
Tell me the meaning of forgiveness
Tell me the meaning of my death
And why I'm a murderer
Tell me the meaning of my life
Tell me the meaning of forgiveness
Tell me the meaning of my death
And why I'm a murderer
And yet I was merely strangled
I've often called the voice of my life
And yet it was merely the past
If I should see the future beaming with joy
I will forgive myself
Tell me the meaning of forgiveness
Tell me the meaning of my death
And why I'm a murderer
So many years I believed in myself
All these years without any success
All these years without, like a dilettante
Tell me the meaning of forgiveness
Tell me the meaning of my death
And why I'm a murderer
A whole life in order to resist
My tears are filling up an ocean
A character in a play
Always the same things in my hand
(Of my fucking life)
Tell me the meaning of forgiveness
Tell me the meaning of my death
And why I'm a murderer
Tell me the meaning of forgiveness
Tell me the meaning of my death
And why I'm a murderer
Tell me the meaning of forgiveness
Tell me the meaning of my death
And why I'm a murderer
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“Nothing Right” is about the crushing weight of self‑judgment and the corrosive loop of doubt. The lyrics read like a cross‑examination, with the narrator both the accused and the accuser, judge and jury rolled into one. Themes of failure, regret, and the search for meaning run through every verse, but so does a stubborn refusal to avert the gaze — however ugly the truth might be. The repeated refrain, “Tell me the meaning…,” becomes less a request and more a demand, as if the narrator believes that if they can just name the truth, they might finally be free. Yet the song offers no resolution — only the echo of the question, reverberating in a chamber where no answer will ever come.
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Track #2 from the album “The Scapegoat’s Agony”:
Taking stock of his deeply lamentable existence so far, the unnamed antihero erupts into a harrowing scream of anguish and disbelief.