I have been a huge fan of Poets of the Fall even before their first album, Signs of Life, was released. I know every single song by heart and can understand what Marko means in his lyrics yet I battle with this one. On the PotF forums people generally think this song is about how fame makes life where you can't be alone. There's always someone there and it's like a religion. However, and none of their songs were ever about this before but, I feel this song is about drugs. Psychedelics to be accurate. Though I've never taken LSD it seems very much like a description of an LSD trip.
"And I see that it makes me anti-everything
And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin
Shed my skin"
for example. Or the chorus:
"Revelation leading to my psychosis and inspiration
Digest another hallucination, psychosis by recreation
Happy till the next deterioration
Psychosis"
Some artists actually use LSD to allow them to be inspired to write not only lyrics but music itself, since it changes your perception so much. I don't think PotF does drugs but that's the only logical explanation in my opinion.
I have been a huge fan of Poets of the Fall even before their first album, Signs of Life, was released. I know every single song by heart and can understand what Marko means in his lyrics yet I battle with this one. On the PotF forums people generally think this song is about how fame makes life where you can't be alone. There's always someone there and it's like a religion. However, and none of their songs were ever about this before but, I feel this song is about drugs. Psychedelics to be accurate. Though I've never taken LSD it seems very much like a description of an LSD trip.
"And I see that it makes me anti-everything And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin Shed my skin"
for example. Or the chorus:
"Revelation leading to my psychosis and inspiration Digest another hallucination, psychosis by recreation Happy till the next deterioration Psychosis"
Some artists actually use LSD to allow them to be inspired to write not only lyrics but music itself, since it changes your perception so much. I don't think PotF does drugs but that's the only logical explanation in my opinion.