Panoptycon
Navigating Life's Turbulent Seas: Harakiri For The Sky's Panoptycon Tale
Lyrics
Listen folks:
Introduction, addressing the audience.
Nothing in this world worth having comes easy at all,
Emphasizing the difficulty of obtaining valuable things in life.
For every decision that comes to our mind, we pay the price.
Highlighting the consequences of decisions and the price one pays for them.
What hereafter will wait for us, only the ocean knows,
Uncertainty about the future, using the ocean as a metaphor.
but you can be everything but certain,
Expressing the lack of certainty in life.
I paid the price for every word I dropped.
Acknowledging the consequences of spoken words.
Needless to say, my constant fear of separation,
Admitting a persistent fear of separation.
is actually not disappearing,
Indicating that the fear has not diminished.
Still the same reason why I’m depraved of sleep,
Connecting the fear of separation to sleep deprivation.
I’m losing friends and above all: I’m losing confidence!
Expressing the loss of friends and confidence.
“Forever and a day”, in this case no second abandon,
Referring to a commitment with no intention of abandonment.
just pure resolution and our final decision,
Emphasizing resolution and final decisions in relationships.
in this relation, we never thought to repent.
Reflecting on a relationship without regrets.
I can still hear you admonishing me,
Recalling admonishments from the past.
but slowing down is not an option.
Rejecting the option of slowing down despite warnings.
I can still feel the rhythm and my heart is still beating,
Remaining physically alive but feeling the emotional impact.
so your presence is no gift, but a curse!
Viewing someone's presence as a curse rather than a gift.
You all once meant the world to me, who knows,
Reflecting on the significance of past relationships.
maybe we’ll meet again at my funeral.
Suggesting the possibility of meeting again at the speaker's funeral.
Don’t get me wrong, this is no reckoning to the life we’ve lived,
Clarifying that it's not a judgment of past life but a recognition of shared history.
but the only thing we share today, is our past.
Highlighting the commonality of a shared past.
Let me back in!
Pleading to be allowed back into a situation or relationship.
Bleeding hands grab for the last tread,
Describing a desperate attempt to hold onto the last hope.
I exchanged all confidence to self-elected suspense,
Sacrificing confidence for self-imposed suspense.
Sometimes I suffer from this life hour for hour,
Expressing suffering in life, but with a strengthening voice.
but apart from this circumstance,
Recognizing the difficulty but finding strength.
my voice gets stronger with every minute that falls.
Asserting the strengthening of the speaker's voice.
Did you ever, ever bleed for something?
Posing a rhetorical question about bleeding for a cause.
Maybe these streets would be an easier way to go,
Suggesting an alternate, easier path in life without twists and turns.
without these turns, just going straight.
Recognizing the lack of control over the path due to past choices.
but we can’t choose their course,
Stating the inevitability of the current course based on past actions.
cause this is how we built those.
Emphasizing the consequences of past decisions in shaping the present.
I walked a thousand miles to escape these barren landscapes, but they are still here.
Expressing an attempt to escape a desolate landscape, only to find it unchanged.
They haunt me like shadows, cause this endless melancholy is my oldest fear.
Describing the persistent haunting of melancholy as a deep-seated fear.
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