Dir En Grey – Glass Skin (English)

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  General Comment:omg! i love this song!! my bestie gave this song to me 4 my 17th bday!! & ive loved it ever since!! XD

  Flag AnimeScReAmOchickon September 07, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:I signed in to say what this song was about but dozedgreen already got it haha.
  So yeah not a love song. I do love it, Kyos way of writing is absolutely beautful.

  Flag muthafukinmeowon February 27, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:It's a beautiful song, and actually my favorite song.
  
  'The merry-go-round playing alone.'
  
  When I saw that part in the music video, It reminded me of how much it hurt as a kid, when you were the kid being picked on in the schoolyard.
  
  'In the dark morning, I pretend the window to be a picture frame'
  
  I believe this to be what he wanted life to be, the meaning of this, what he saw through the window was peaceful and tranquil. Maybe he wanted life to be what he saw through his eyes?
  
  'I bleed as my way of compensating everything to you
  How heavy is blood?
  Happiness and sadness lies too close'
  
  I believe this part is, Maybe mutilation? Because, out of nowhere does something like this pop up. And, Maybe he'd hurt himself in longing to fit in? Or it could be metaphorically, and mean that he tries too hard to fit in, and in the end only hurts himself.
  
  
  'There is a ferris wheel, where I can look down and see you from
  The melody that just comes crumbling down is also so sweet and beautiful, it's frightening'
  
  This could be retribution, where he finds out that Karma comes back around, and he is now looking down at the little people now. That his life is finnaly as he'd picture it to be..and it sometimes scares him.
  
  
  'The shadow exposed by the sun is branded into my memory
  and it touches my heart than any shallow words combined'
  
  The shadow, Could also be his past. And his past keeps him going today.
  
  Basically, a long story about 'what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.'
  
  

  Flag SaiSaion January 30, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Well the song can mean anything to anyone but Kyo's already said "Glass Skin’s lyrics seem to be captured as a love song, but it really isn’t like that. If I were to put in a phrase, it’s about environmental problems without being too preachy, the deterioration, the evanescence; I wanted to express these qualities. I don’t want to get preachy or sing positively. It’s more of “having something positive within something that’s not positive.” I have that as my foundation. The view you see is different with something born from nothing comparing to seeing and creating something from destruction."
  -taken from hitorizu.livejournal.com/…

  Flag dozedgreenon January 29, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I am absolutly obsessed with this song! its not even funny how much i love it. i could swear Dir en grey's music just keeps getting better and better, i love their music even more after this cd came out. i just had to buy it. XD

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  General Comment:I love this song! It is obviously about the end of a very meaningful relationship. It is about moving forward into the future after your heart has been broken.

  Flag BleedingRose22on January 20, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Well got some newz ppl,these lyricz were kinda translated wrong I got the UROBOROS cd Monday nite from the Baltimore concert (which waz fuckin great I might add)but if you want the actual lyrics let me kno.I'm not tryin 2 knock whoever put these up by the way

  Flag Wrath90on November 12, 2008   Link

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    Just out of curiousity, are looking at the translated version or the actual english singing version. I ask because there are two different versions on the special edtion, this version here is the jap. version. If the lyrics to the jap. version are different than the jap. version, then yes, I would like to know what the actual lyrics are.

    Flag Shibooon November 12, 2008  
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  General Comment:Seriously though, get this album. It is freaking worthn it.

  Flag Shibooon November 10, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I now hold possession of the new album, Uroboros. It is their best work by par(and yes I do mean "par", not "far")I've heard two versions of this song, the single and the english version. Bittersweet and Ryuk88 have already hit the nail on the head on what it's about. To sum it all up, it's about a man who is mourning the loss of a relationship that was very dear to him, even though he didn't take it as such at first. So as his own personal penance, he barracides himself from the rest of society to reflect on the relationship he will never get back.

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  General Comment:Obviously the song is about the aftermath of an ended relationship.
  "The merry-go-round playing alone"
  "emptier still than any tears of comedy"
  "there is a ferris-wheel, where I can look down and see you from"
  
  It sounds like they probably spent a lot of time having fun and joking around. Maybe the narrator didn't think that their relationship was a really serious one until they became seperated. Now he realizes how much he needs her.
  
  Good song, the lyrics' quality is going back up. I always like how the lyrics imagery and symbolism give clues to the song's meaning.

  Flag Ryuk88on November 05, 2008   Link

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