Looking Outside Inside Lyrics

Lyric discussion by rabbithowl 

Cover art for Looking Outside Inside lyrics by Anathema

It's about self-realization.

You see everything that's happening to you, but you're viewing it as a separate source, from a collected, outside perspective.

The character in this concept now sees what he has become after catching a glimpse of himself as a child, and he is helpless to do anything about it at this time. He's broken all of the promises he made to himself as a child, and has instead resorted to a material existence with a material soul.