I managed to understand what this song is about today.
This segment of Catch 33 seems to be about multiple personality disorder. "The exo-skeletal patchwork protecting my own reflection within" shows that the reflection (or one of the personalities) is contained in an external shell when one personality is active. "The twin insane engaged in the mirrored act of chewing away" This shows that the two personalities are conflicting with one another in a self-destructive manner. "To have and yet lose yourself until finally all reasons why are forgotten" represents how a person with MPD can be conscious but have one personality being dormant and when the active personality reverts to a dormant state, and the dormant personality regains control, the dormant personality is unable to recollect what happened while the other personality was active. "To live through one's own shadow" is another way of describing the dormant personality. "Eclipse the golden mirror and the reflection is set free." The use of the word golden here may indicate that there is hope for one of the personalities.
I managed to understand what this song is about today. This segment of Catch 33 seems to be about multiple personality disorder. "The exo-skeletal patchwork protecting my own reflection within" shows that the reflection (or one of the personalities) is contained in an external shell when one personality is active. "The twin insane engaged in the mirrored act of chewing away" This shows that the two personalities are conflicting with one another in a self-destructive manner. "To have and yet lose yourself until finally all reasons why are forgotten" represents how a person with MPD can be conscious but have one personality being dormant and when the active personality reverts to a dormant state, and the dormant personality regains control, the dormant personality is unable to recollect what happened while the other personality was active. "To live through one's own shadow" is another way of describing the dormant personality. "Eclipse the golden mirror and the reflection is set free." The use of the word golden here may indicate that there is hope for one of the personalities.