My first attempt at a song. Katatonia is my favorite band, but not the most difficult band to understand lyrically.
"If you didn't know/All the moments/When I lose myself"
This line says that if you cared, or if I meant something to you like you say, you should know that something wrong. 'When I lose myself' means when I hurt. Probably talking to a woman, but 'you' you could mean 'I'.
"I would tell the world/I'm catching flies by now"-Suicide. 'Catching flies' is something corpses do
"Speaking to someone/Breaking the windows/This house is dead"-things are happening, but it's all unimportant and he is jaded to the world. Talking, violence, whatever...everything around him is dead. Or, 'house' is him.
"The sound of falling/When the pictures are moving/Between the memories"-It's what he pictures of his own accord in his thoughts that matter. The actual memories are hazy and, to him, worthless. The 'sound of falling' is him becoming jaded.
"The sound of falling/When the pictures are moving/Dead in time"-'Dead in time' because it happened, and he can't let it go. It is not specified (betrayal, death, heartbreak, etc...)
"Brave, try the meaning of loss/I know your smile is deadly at this point/Wherever you are I am not"-I'm not cool because of how I act. I act how I do because I hurt. Your smile is deadly because you plan to betray, so I will distance myself from you. You are a fake person...aimed at multiple people. Not just a girl. So called 'friends', women, family, whoever.
"If you didn't know/All the moments/When I lose myself/I would tell the world"-Setting up to tell the point of his lyrics in this song
"I guess I should know/The limits of the world/There are moments I find myself/Not breathing at al"l-He complains and writes lyrics, but he knows that life is full of pain. And he no longer cares. 'Not breathing' is not being effected; being jaded. He said all this, but realizes that, in reality, he doesn't give a damn...death is fine. Pain is fine. Who cares?
My first attempt at a song. Katatonia is my favorite band, but not the most difficult band to understand lyrically.
"If you didn't know/All the moments/When I lose myself"
This line says that if you cared, or if I meant something to you like you say, you should know that something wrong. 'When I lose myself' means when I hurt. Probably talking to a woman, but 'you' you could mean 'I'.
"I would tell the world/I'm catching flies by now"-Suicide. 'Catching flies' is something corpses do
"Speaking to someone/Breaking the windows/This house is dead"-things are happening, but it's all unimportant and he is jaded to the world. Talking, violence, whatever...everything around him is dead. Or, 'house' is him.
"The sound of falling/When the pictures are moving/Between the memories"-It's what he pictures of his own accord in his thoughts that matter. The actual memories are hazy and, to him, worthless. The 'sound of falling' is him becoming jaded.
"The sound of falling/When the pictures are moving/Dead in time"-'Dead in time' because it happened, and he can't let it go. It is not specified (betrayal, death, heartbreak, etc...)
"Brave, try the meaning of loss/I know your smile is deadly at this point/Wherever you are I am not"-I'm not cool because of how I act. I act how I do because I hurt. Your smile is deadly because you plan to betray, so I will distance myself from you. You are a fake person...aimed at multiple people. Not just a girl. So called 'friends', women, family, whoever.
"If you didn't know/All the moments/When I lose myself/I would tell the world"-Setting up to tell the point of his lyrics in this song
"I guess I should know/The limits of the world/There are moments I find myself/Not breathing at al"l-He complains and writes lyrics, but he knows that life is full of pain. And he no longer cares. 'Not breathing' is not being effected; being jaded. He said all this, but realizes that, in reality, he doesn't give a damn...death is fine. Pain is fine. Who cares?