Everything written here is my own interpretation. You might or might not agree with me.
Basically this song is about a man who cannot control his own life.
He is depressed, but wears a mask of happiness, which makes him a clown. In the song his “dream” can be interpreted as a nightmare — or his life. We’ll take a closer look at that.
As he falls asleep, his dream turns into a nightmare and he steps twice on the broken glass he attempts to avoid. He cuts his feet with the ruins of his own life, which he cannot avoid neither handle. He does not want to sleep and he fears the darkness. He doesn’t want to face his nightmares, which means he wants to escape the problems in his life. Eventually he falls asleep though, and we’re presented with many paradoxes describing a nightmare, in where his friends are haunting him as ghosts. His nightmare turns into a wild ballet as everything is mixed together, and soon he wakes up to face his life.
After he awakes he can’t tell dream from reality, which means that his life is like a nightmare — it’s ruined. He keeps thinking about the good things in life that he ruined, and that everything he does is wrong. He cannot undo the things he has done. As he is drawn into the nightmare again, it becomes his reality.
Now he is aware that he has to sweep the broken glass, but he just can’t do it. He can’t fix his own life, and he realises that his body is his own prison. To escape the nightmare, he commits suicide, and that is described by him waking up and jumping off the carousel, ending all the good, bad and the ugly dreams.
Everything written here is my own interpretation. You might or might not agree with me.
Basically this song is about a man who cannot control his own life. He is depressed, but wears a mask of happiness, which makes him a clown. In the song his “dream” can be interpreted as a nightmare — or his life. We’ll take a closer look at that.
As he falls asleep, his dream turns into a nightmare and he steps twice on the broken glass he attempts to avoid. He cuts his feet with the ruins of his own life, which he cannot avoid neither handle. He does not want to sleep and he fears the darkness. He doesn’t want to face his nightmares, which means he wants to escape the problems in his life. Eventually he falls asleep though, and we’re presented with many paradoxes describing a nightmare, in where his friends are haunting him as ghosts. His nightmare turns into a wild ballet as everything is mixed together, and soon he wakes up to face his life.
After he awakes he can’t tell dream from reality, which means that his life is like a nightmare — it’s ruined. He keeps thinking about the good things in life that he ruined, and that everything he does is wrong. He cannot undo the things he has done. As he is drawn into the nightmare again, it becomes his reality.
Now he is aware that he has to sweep the broken glass, but he just can’t do it. He can’t fix his own life, and he realises that his body is his own prison. To escape the nightmare, he commits suicide, and that is described by him waking up and jumping off the carousel, ending all the good, bad and the ugly dreams.