lol... my friend and I have spent SO many hours analysing this song, it's scary. Oh, and I have a few lyric revisions for you - could be wrong, but these are what we figured out:
Instead of, "I feel the sun before it's light/ And it fades away into the night/ I was afraid of, "Feed myself or clean this shelf"/ "And kill for shame" ", we got:
"I feel the sun before it's light/and it fades away into the night/I was afraid/I'll feed myself/I'll clear the shelf/and kill the shame"
And we've never been able to figure out exactly the bridge... meh.
At any rate, I think Asylum's about Daniel's battle with depression, and his recovery. The first verse would be about when he was still on anti-depressants (Contained in my cotton crib / Where I feel no turbulence), and the second one would be about realizing that it was ok to have "extreme emotions" (in his words) and just generally getting better (hence "I'll feed myself" -eating disorder reference). There's so much more to it, and I realize that my explanation makes no sense at all, but it's just hard to put into a few words what we've been analysing for weeks. I hope it's not TOO far out there to understand.
lol... my friend and I have spent SO many hours analysing this song, it's scary. Oh, and I have a few lyric revisions for you - could be wrong, but these are what we figured out: Instead of, "I feel the sun before it's light/ And it fades away into the night/ I was afraid of, "Feed myself or clean this shelf"/ "And kill for shame" ", we got: "I feel the sun before it's light/and it fades away into the night/I was afraid/I'll feed myself/I'll clear the shelf/and kill the shame" And we've never been able to figure out exactly the bridge... meh. At any rate, I think Asylum's about Daniel's battle with depression, and his recovery. The first verse would be about when he was still on anti-depressants (Contained in my cotton crib / Where I feel no turbulence), and the second one would be about realizing that it was ok to have "extreme emotions" (in his words) and just generally getting better (hence "I'll feed myself" -eating disorder reference). There's so much more to it, and I realize that my explanation makes no sense at all, but it's just hard to put into a few words what we've been analysing for weeks. I hope it's not TOO far out there to understand.