Sum Lyrics

Lyric discussion by coprophagus 

Cover art for Sum lyrics by Meshuggah

s+rannger you are close to the jeneral idea of the album.

the Album is about paradoxes, and this is a story about someone who felt the paradoxes in his life and tried to find the truth "Reaching for the inner bright, the very essence-sun of my dreaming bliss".

Guided by the fear of being traped in this reality-Lie Guided outside all shades of the perfect black by a fear blinded.

so the main character in the album try to find something real first he seek the truth in the personality in the "I", only to find multypersonality.

  1. Entrapment

Mutiny of self. Insurrection games convincingly performed Incapacitated by physical thoughts acting out the will of tendon and bone Have the bridges of insanity been crossed and forever retracted? Am I standing among a thousand selves? Is the multitude of laughters mine alone?

and at last he come to a point where he plunge deeper in his abyss across life and death "Only to find that self is shed" (only to find that this new state is a lie too)

at this point he can see the randomnes of the universe the chaos in ALL and to keep his mind in equilibrium he must lie himself. To lie himself to be able to seek the truth (paradox).

Personae Non Gratae "A lie to maintain equilibrium, to hold me in this dead realm - this last ever dream I'm the thought that never crossed my mind - disguised in the evident. Forever unredeemed"

  1. Dehumanization

A new level reached, where the absence of air lets me breathe I'm inverted electrical impulses. A malfunctioning death-code incomplete All things before me, at first unliving glimpse undeciphered Its semantics rid of logic. Nothing is all. All is contradiction

that is his failure.(Its semantics rid of logic. Nothing is all. All is contradiction)

"Vision will blind. Severance ties. Median am I. True are all lies"

And the big paradox is all truths are lies and they are true until you lie yourself they are "Median am I"

and the other big paradox "The struggle to free myself of restraints, becomes my very shackles"

struggling for freedom made him a prisoner between the worlds of "multi-none". He can't live in a lie again but there is no truth to be found.