The correct lyrics are "You can Live in this Illusion, You can Choose to Believe. You keep Looking but you can't find the Words, Now you're Hiding in Retreat."
I believe that this song is about self-discovery, and possible recovery. You're coming to the realization that you're a horrible person, and asking yourself "what if" all of that shit that you love and live for was taken away, what then?
Would you find yourself afraid to know what that'd be like?
The song (to me) is about looking deep inside of your heart, and realizing that beyond the brick wall you make yourself out to be, you're extremely weak inside, and can't tell anyone about it.
"You keep looking but you can't find the words, now you're hiding in retreat."
He's saying that you're afraid to talk about what's really wrong, so now you live inside of your head to escape the realities of life. You make up a world inside of your head, where nothing bad happens.
It's about living a lie inside of your head, and asking yourself what would happen if you pulled yourself out of your happy-world inside of your head for a moment, and took a look at your true self. Would you be afraid to see what you really are?
What would happen if the falseness of the life you have built to make your life better, was taken away. Would you be afraid to to even think about that for even a moment?
I'll break this down for you all to prove my theory:
"See the animal in his cage that you built, are you sure what side your on?"
You're begining to see reality, and you for what you really are.
"Better not look him too closely in the eye, are you sure what side of the glass you are on?"
Trent's saying that you shouldn't study too much into yourself, or you'll really start to question who and what you really are, and what you do. It's kind of a warning to stay away from reality.
"See the safety of the life you have built, everything where it belongs."
You've based your entire life on apathy, living inside of your head, to escape the realities of your life. But you're happy that way.
"Feel the hollowness inside of your heart, and it's all, right where it belongs."
It's showing you that the apathy you've chosen to let consume you, has closed you off to love, and made your heart hollow and empty. But you're still happy like this, because it's what you chose to do. Hence "right where it belongs."
"What if everything around you, isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you think you know, is an elaborate dream?"
This is Trent basically SHOVING IT IN YOUR FACE that you've lived a lie to better your life. And kind of trying to pull you out of it.
"And if you look at your reflection, is that all you want to be? What if you could look right through the cracks, would you find yourself afraid to see?"
He's saying that if you really pulled yourself out of the falseness of your fake life for a moment, and took a look at your life, would you ask yourself is this what you really wanna do...do you want to be living a lie? Then asking what if you could choose to see the realities of life...would you find yourself frightened by it all?
"What if all the world's inside of your head, just creations of your own? Your devils and your Gods all the living and the dead, and you're really all alone."
He's once again, shoving it in your face that you're living a fake life inside of your head. Not taking reality for what it is, and showing you that in the end, by living this way, you're alone with nobody but yourself. And also saying that you yourself create all your faults, and uprisings, not the world around you. So why are you hiding from everyone and living life alone?
"You can live in this illusion, you can choose to believe. You keep looking but you can't find the words, now you're hiding in retreat."
Once again, this is basically stateing that you're afraid to talk about what's really wrong due to a lack of trust in just about everyone, so now you live inside of your head to escape the realities of life, and don't even bother to fix your life at all because without help, and encouragement that you believe doesn't exist, you just can't. You make up a world inside of your head, where nothing bad happens.
The chorus then repeats itself, with the same basic meaning.
This is (in major detail) what I think this song is about. Living inside of your head to escape the realities of life, but in the end, realizing the realities of life, and trying to hide from them in a continuous cycle that always leaves you faced with the truth in the end.
Bottom line...you can't hide from reality forever. In the end, it's always going to become aparent in your head, that you can't hide forever from life, even if it's shitty...you know you're living a lie, and sooner or later, that's going to become aparent, and trying to mask your life with lies won't work anymore, then you'll be left questioning yourself with this song.
You can't find the woods while your hiding in the trees.
You can't find the woods while your hiding in the trees.
It's an old saying that means you can't see the whole picture because of how involved you are. How submerged you have become. Once you take that in to account, it becomes very apparent that it fits the very theme of this song.
It's an old saying that means you can't see the whole picture because of how involved you are. How submerged you have become. Once you take that in to account, it becomes very apparent that it fits the very theme of this song.
@BLEEDTHROUGH wow wow wow you hit the nail on the head and you are correct about the lyrics this song well this whole album is about me THE ONE not anymore of course but it totally is about how I hide from realities never wanting to face them because no matter what I couldn\'t ever trust anyone enough to tell them about me and expect to still have friends so I hid in my own reality never sure if I was on the outside looking in or inside looking out just another zealot unable to face life because I was...
@BLEEDTHROUGH wow wow wow you hit the nail on the head and you are correct about the lyrics this song well this whole album is about me THE ONE not anymore of course but it totally is about how I hide from realities never wanting to face them because no matter what I couldn\'t ever trust anyone enough to tell them about me and expect to still have friends so I hid in my own reality never sure if I was on the outside looking in or inside looking out just another zealot unable to face life because I was constantly scrutinized I always thought it was my son\'s is where I belonged and would cry play the song over and over but it was I who needed the cage to belong or else I was nothing
@BLEEDTHROUGH i honestly disagree with a lot of this. Going from the beginning, being weak doesn't make you a bad person. Escaping your reality is not inherently bad/wrong either. In fact, many people do so in order to survive their reality.
@BLEEDTHROUGH i honestly disagree with a lot of this. Going from the beginning, being weak doesn't make you a bad person. Escaping your reality is not inherently bad/wrong either. In fact, many people do so in order to survive their reality.
The correct lyrics are "You can Live in this Illusion, You can Choose to Believe. You keep Looking but you can't find the Words, Now you're Hiding in Retreat."
I believe that this song is about self-discovery, and possible recovery. You're coming to the realization that you're a horrible person, and asking yourself "what if" all of that shit that you love and live for was taken away, what then?
Would you find yourself afraid to know what that'd be like?
The song (to me) is about looking deep inside of your heart, and realizing that beyond the brick wall you make yourself out to be, you're extremely weak inside, and can't tell anyone about it.
"You keep looking but you can't find the words, now you're hiding in retreat."
He's saying that you're afraid to talk about what's really wrong, so now you live inside of your head to escape the realities of life. You make up a world inside of your head, where nothing bad happens.
It's about living a lie inside of your head, and asking yourself what would happen if you pulled yourself out of your happy-world inside of your head for a moment, and took a look at your true self. Would you be afraid to see what you really are?
What would happen if the falseness of the life you have built to make your life better, was taken away. Would you be afraid to to even think about that for even a moment?
I'll break this down for you all to prove my theory:
"See the animal in his cage that you built, are you sure what side your on?"
You're begining to see reality, and you for what you really are.
"Better not look him too closely in the eye, are you sure what side of the glass you are on?"
Trent's saying that you shouldn't study too much into yourself, or you'll really start to question who and what you really are, and what you do. It's kind of a warning to stay away from reality.
"See the safety of the life you have built, everything where it belongs."
You've based your entire life on apathy, living inside of your head, to escape the realities of your life. But you're happy that way.
"Feel the hollowness inside of your heart, and it's all, right where it belongs."
It's showing you that the apathy you've chosen to let consume you, has closed you off to love, and made your heart hollow and empty. But you're still happy like this, because it's what you chose to do. Hence "right where it belongs."
"What if everything around you, isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you think you know, is an elaborate dream?"
This is Trent basically SHOVING IT IN YOUR FACE that you've lived a lie to better your life. And kind of trying to pull you out of it.
"And if you look at your reflection, is that all you want to be? What if you could look right through the cracks, would you find yourself afraid to see?"
He's saying that if you really pulled yourself out of the falseness of your fake life for a moment, and took a look at your life, would you ask yourself is this what you really wanna do...do you want to be living a lie? Then asking what if you could choose to see the realities of life...would you find yourself frightened by it all?
"What if all the world's inside of your head, just creations of your own? Your devils and your Gods all the living and the dead, and you're really all alone."
He's once again, shoving it in your face that you're living a fake life inside of your head. Not taking reality for what it is, and showing you that in the end, by living this way, you're alone with nobody but yourself. And also saying that you yourself create all your faults, and uprisings, not the world around you. So why are you hiding from everyone and living life alone?
"You can live in this illusion, you can choose to believe. You keep looking but you can't find the words, now you're hiding in retreat."
Once again, this is basically stateing that you're afraid to talk about what's really wrong due to a lack of trust in just about everyone, so now you live inside of your head to escape the realities of life, and don't even bother to fix your life at all because without help, and encouragement that you believe doesn't exist, you just can't. You make up a world inside of your head, where nothing bad happens.
The chorus then repeats itself, with the same basic meaning.
This is (in major detail) what I think this song is about. Living inside of your head to escape the realities of life, but in the end, realizing the realities of life, and trying to hide from them in a continuous cycle that always leaves you faced with the truth in the end.
Bottom line...you can't hide from reality forever. In the end, it's always going to become aparent in your head, that you can't hide forever from life, even if it's shitty...you know you're living a lie, and sooner or later, that's going to become aparent, and trying to mask your life with lies won't work anymore, then you'll be left questioning yourself with this song.
Wow... I never thought of it that way. Now I suddenly realize how much all that relates to me.
Wow... I never thought of it that way. Now I suddenly realize how much all that relates to me.
This is deep as fuck....."then you'll be left questioning yourself with this song."
This is deep as fuck....."then you'll be left questioning yourself with this song."
yep thats what im doing
yep thats what im doing
Very close to what I think!
Very close to what I think!
@BLEEDTHROUGH you got the first part wrong.
@BLEEDTHROUGH you got the first part wrong.
You can't find the woods while your hiding in the trees.
You can't find the woods while your hiding in the trees.
It's an old saying that means you can't see the whole picture because of how involved you are. How submerged you have become. Once you take that in to account, it becomes very apparent that it fits the very theme of this song.
It's an old saying that means you can't see the whole picture because of how involved you are. How submerged you have become. Once you take that in to account, it becomes very apparent that it fits the very theme of this song.
@BLEEDTHROUGH wow wow wow you hit the nail on the head and you are correct about the lyrics this song well this whole album is about me THE ONE not anymore of course but it totally is about how I hide from realities never wanting to face them because no matter what I couldn\'t ever trust anyone enough to tell them about me and expect to still have friends so I hid in my own reality never sure if I was on the outside looking in or inside looking out just another zealot unable to face life because I was...
@BLEEDTHROUGH wow wow wow you hit the nail on the head and you are correct about the lyrics this song well this whole album is about me THE ONE not anymore of course but it totally is about how I hide from realities never wanting to face them because no matter what I couldn\'t ever trust anyone enough to tell them about me and expect to still have friends so I hid in my own reality never sure if I was on the outside looking in or inside looking out just another zealot unable to face life because I was constantly scrutinized I always thought it was my son\'s is where I belonged and would cry play the song over and over but it was I who needed the cage to belong or else I was nothing
@BLEEDTHROUGH i honestly disagree with a lot of this. Going from the beginning, being weak doesn't make you a bad person. Escaping your reality is not inherently bad/wrong either. In fact, many people do so in order to survive their reality.
@BLEEDTHROUGH i honestly disagree with a lot of this. Going from the beginning, being weak doesn't make you a bad person. Escaping your reality is not inherently bad/wrong either. In fact, many people do so in order to survive their reality.