hey peeps! sorry for disturbing you here at you forum, but me and other people are wondering where the Katatonialyrics are about? Are they fantasy, 'bout hard times in their lives, anything else? If anyone knows what their songs are about, an explanation of a lyric, please tell!
Katatonialyrics
- Thread starter Mariner
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falling bird
schoolgazer
I think most of the lyrics that Jonas writes are in some way dealing with love and relationships and certain situations in his life, so i wouldn't say they're fantasy but personal and honest.
Once in a while someone here comes up with the lyrics of a Katatonia song and then we're kind of discussing them, trying to find out the meaning. Everyone has their own opinions on it and that's what i like about the lyrics Katatonia have, you can think of them in many ways.
The lyrics on Brave Murder Day for example are really interesting i think, very ambiguous.
Once in a while someone here comes up with the lyrics of a Katatonia song and then we're kind of discussing them, trying to find out the meaning. Everyone has their own opinions on it and that's what i like about the lyrics Katatonia have, you can think of them in many ways.
The lyrics on Brave Murder Day for example are really interesting i think, very ambiguous.
Ormir
Senior Member
I think they're mostly based on the negative personal experiences and feelings of Jonas (and sometimes Anders). Depression, identity crisis, times spent in a hospital, insomnia, lonelyness etc. Crushed self esteem seems to be a prevalent theme in the lyrics.
The December-Funerals era had similar themes, although wrapped around lots of pretention. Recent Katatonia lyrics are much more naked, and honest.
yourdeadgroom
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You bastard! Don't steal Dunc's quotes!!Originally posted by Mariner
oh I thought it was about eggs and spaceshipshehe
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Forlorn Hope
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falling bird
schoolgazer
You really need to be more concrete man, name a song for example.
Btw, nice signature, i love Deus!
Btw, nice signature, i love Deus!
yourdeadgroom
Black Stone Wielder
falling bird
schoolgazer
Brave
If you didn't know all the moments when I lose myself I would tell the world I'm catching flies by now speaking to someone breaking the windows this house is dead the sound of falling when the pictures are moving between the memories dead in time brave try the meaning of loss I know your smile is deadly at this point wherever you are I am not if you didn't know all the moments when I lose myself I would tell the world I guess I should know the limits of the world there are moments I find myself not breathing at all
since this one amazed me... but mind I need the REAL strory behind it, not what you think what's it about...
If you didn't know all the moments when I lose myself I would tell the world I'm catching flies by now speaking to someone breaking the windows this house is dead the sound of falling when the pictures are moving between the memories dead in time brave try the meaning of loss I know your smile is deadly at this point wherever you are I am not if you didn't know all the moments when I lose myself I would tell the world I guess I should know the limits of the world there are moments I find myself not breathing at all
since this one amazed me... but mind I need the REAL strory behind it, not what you think what's it about...
Ormir
Senior Member
I don't think anyone besides Jonas can tell you what exactly it meant to him, others can only offer their own interpretations.
ether
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lyrics are beautiful for the feelings and sensation they communicate and for the images they convey.
Once you explain poetry you lose a lot of the suggestive power that words combined together can create. it´s also a question of musicality and words that fit together without necessarily bearing a meaning.
Jonas lyrics are based on the same themes(people had already mentioned them here), but the way he can create some images and the way he varies these themes combining words together is really of a higher quality compared to many other lyrics.
Another thing I like is that everything is sincere and really felt and so personal to such an extent, that sometimes it seems hard to separate the artist/lyricist from the person with his real life, problems and so on.
Once you explain poetry you lose a lot of the suggestive power that words combined together can create. it´s also a question of musicality and words that fit together without necessarily bearing a meaning.
Jonas lyrics are based on the same themes(people had already mentioned them here), but the way he can create some images and the way he varies these themes combining words together is really of a higher quality compared to many other lyrics.
Another thing I like is that everything is sincere and really felt and so personal to such an extent, that sometimes it seems hard to separate the artist/lyricist from the person with his real life, problems and so on.
Kains D
Am I my brother's keeper?
And take notice that Jonas do not use any outlandish world. The metaphors are superb yet simple and fit nicely with the music. Like using 'my eyes are of chrome' (not a single 19th Century work here).
I think with Katatonia's lyrics, they could have so many different meanings, just depending on hwo is listening to it and how they take the whole message being carried out. Jonas could've even written them in which they contain double meanings, or metaphorical in a sense.
