Sublevels Lyrics

Lyric discussion by valis09 

Cover art for Sublevels lyrics by Meshuggah

It, to me, is about someone going to sleep, dreaming. The voice is a very monotonous, droning and tiresome tone. Then in the middle of the dream it becomes lucid and they become aware that they are dreaming (lucid dreams). They want out of the dream, theyre panicing and frantic. Then as he wakes he goes into a state of sleep paralysis (if youve ever had it, its probably the most frightening experience in your life hahaha) begging to wake up. finally he wakes up, but the music at the very end gives me a thought of he's woke up into another reality, or he has seen reality as it truely is, because its very disturbing music.

Ya' see, it might actually not be as literal as a person dreaming. it could be a metaphor based on the idea that we could all be dreaming, or life is a dream. like someone who has been asleep all their life (metaphorically) and has woke up to see reality as it is.

Or someone waking up out of the moral and existential dilemma that society has gotten itself into (mechanical state, way of living, and the cyclical lifestyle, man loosing himself, no time for introspection and find himself again etc.)