I'm not a native English speaker and I'm pretty young, so I probably misunderstood this song (and sorry for any grammatical mistakes I might have made), but I think it's about a man who can't control his own feelings.
He feels depressed, but he does not act like that to the outside world. He lives in a happy dream, but because he's actually very sad, that dream turns into a nightmare for him. The happy outside world is like a kitten scratching him, and his life is like a theater piece. His friends aren't real friends, they are weak translucent ghosts haunting his nightmare. He isn't actually dreaming, but his life is like a dream.
Metaphorically, he looks in a mirror to see himself, but that mirror breaks. He steps on the broken glass of that mirror - he cuts his feet with the ruins of his own life, the broken glass, which means he cannot handle his life. He tries to avoid it, but he can't, he steps on the broken glass twice.
Also, he literally dreams about his mask of happiness. He dreams about all kinds of happy things and he tries to believe those dreams. He tries to believe the 'happy painting', but it just isn't reality. He is stuck in himself, he is his own prison. The dream turns into a wild ballet. The few good parts of his life (the parts he uses to pretend everything is going well) and the real bad parts get mixed together. His dream turns into a nightmare, he tries to kill himself in his dream, he jumps, he falls, he expects to die, then he wakes up again to continue living in his non-existing happy life.
It's impossible to live in such a bad dream, so in the end, he actually commits suicide by jumping off the carousel. That colourful carousel is pretended to be his so-called good life, and it finally kills him.
Well you covered everything there.. of course Tony does not refer to himself or maybe not anyone at all as he has said, he likes to create stories and scenarios, such as Dana, and sometime continues them or refers to them in more than one song.
Well you covered everything there.. of course Tony does not refer to himself or maybe not anyone at all as he has said, he likes to create stories and scenarios, such as Dana, and sometime continues them or refers to them in more than one song.
By the way Niels, you are too modest; your English has not one flaw..
By the way Niels, you are too modest; your English has not one flaw..
I'm not a native English speaker and I'm pretty young, so I probably misunderstood this song (and sorry for any grammatical mistakes I might have made), but I think it's about a man who can't control his own feelings.
He feels depressed, but he does not act like that to the outside world. He lives in a happy dream, but because he's actually very sad, that dream turns into a nightmare for him. The happy outside world is like a kitten scratching him, and his life is like a theater piece. His friends aren't real friends, they are weak translucent ghosts haunting his nightmare. He isn't actually dreaming, but his life is like a dream. Metaphorically, he looks in a mirror to see himself, but that mirror breaks. He steps on the broken glass of that mirror - he cuts his feet with the ruins of his own life, the broken glass, which means he cannot handle his life. He tries to avoid it, but he can't, he steps on the broken glass twice.
Also, he literally dreams about his mask of happiness. He dreams about all kinds of happy things and he tries to believe those dreams. He tries to believe the 'happy painting', but it just isn't reality. He is stuck in himself, he is his own prison. The dream turns into a wild ballet. The few good parts of his life (the parts he uses to pretend everything is going well) and the real bad parts get mixed together. His dream turns into a nightmare, he tries to kill himself in his dream, he jumps, he falls, he expects to die, then he wakes up again to continue living in his non-existing happy life.
It's impossible to live in such a bad dream, so in the end, he actually commits suicide by jumping off the carousel. That colourful carousel is pretended to be his so-called good life, and it finally kills him.
Well you covered everything there.. of course Tony does not refer to himself or maybe not anyone at all as he has said, he likes to create stories and scenarios, such as Dana, and sometime continues them or refers to them in more than one song.
Well you covered everything there.. of course Tony does not refer to himself or maybe not anyone at all as he has said, he likes to create stories and scenarios, such as Dana, and sometime continues them or refers to them in more than one song.
By the way Niels, you are too modest; your English has not one flaw..
By the way Niels, you are too modest; your English has not one flaw..