24ko Cylinder (English) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Child_preyx 

Cover art for 24ko Cylinder (English) lyrics by Dir En Grey

This is the cleverest song Kyo's every written. the repition of 'give me' shows how everyone wants and craves things, it's human nature to want things. In 'give me laugh', give me pain' he's asking for joy and pain-the two most basic human experiances. 'give me high' is asking for more then the basic emotions, he's asking for more, then 'give me nothing' is taking back that request-he'd rather not know what it was to feel. the lines afterwards are just as important. 'everyone feels if time should end this dream full of contradictions will...' the sentence ends unfinished, but it's open to interpritation, it's something everyone fears-that when they die their dreams will result to nothing. 'with every time we've embraced, can I love you? I who am full of contridictions...' He's been doubting his ability to love because of his own flaws, he feels he's too flawed to give love honestly. 'time will end' to 'love without warmth' shows how as time goes on the relationship degrades. 'An end begins a trivial matter' to 'the time, sleeping with a kiss to unheated death.' decribes how the relationship collapses and he blames himself for not being able to love 'the dream withers and returns to the sand will the dream bloom again someday inside of me?' He's asking if his ability to love will return and the 'dream' will mean something when time ends. 'I can't recall the dream that left me will your voice reach to my very core? but.....

time will end time will change me, you, now, will be branded into the flow of time time will stop at the end of time we'll kiss and then sleep in this love without warmth

Give Me nothing if time should end '

He's subjected himself to lonliness and will prefer to have nothing then lose everything at the end of time