It seems like the speaker is evolving a new identity or that a new self is invading his mind. This "other me ... slowly taking over" is similar to the transformation in "Sublevels," only in this song there's more of a duality. The speaker's new self attempts to persuade the old self to abdicate, and despite some reluctance, the old self eventually accepts. The last two stanzas suggest that this self-within-a-self is not unique to the speaker, but that every person can feel the same struggle within themselves. To embrace the new self is to "put you in peace with mind." If schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder ever needed a theme song, then here it is.
As for the title, I think Haake went a little preposition-crazy. I could see "Inside what's within" being a kind of ultra-introspection that looks within the within, but the addition of "Behind" at the end? Yeah, I have no idea.
It seems like the speaker is evolving a new identity or that a new self is invading his mind. This "other me ... slowly taking over" is similar to the transformation in "Sublevels," only in this song there's more of a duality. The speaker's new self attempts to persuade the old self to abdicate, and despite some reluctance, the old self eventually accepts. The last two stanzas suggest that this self-within-a-self is not unique to the speaker, but that every person can feel the same struggle within themselves. To embrace the new self is to "put you in peace with mind." If schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder ever needed a theme song, then here it is.
As for the title, I think Haake went a little preposition-crazy. I could see "Inside what's within" being a kind of ultra-introspection that looks within the within, but the addition of "Behind" at the end? Yeah, I have no idea.