Most emotive Katatonia lyrics?

Quiet World as a whole really gets to me lyrically, probably more than any other Katatonia song.
"Four numbers staring back at me - displaying the mediocrity of my presence -
I'm wasting my day, watching them change"
 
Some of my favourite passages:

Gateways of Bereavement:
"I stand as I cry
Mourning in the Silent rain
Death will light my Burden
Endless is my Sorrow"

Nowhere:
"Atmosphere decays in me I fail to convict my useless days
The lack of substance Circle of downfall Exitless ways into pale wake
Tired attempts to crush the design"

Distrust:
"Running my way towards oblivion
Inside my head electric insomnia"

Don't Tell A Soul:
"I have been destroyed
by the perfection that is life
see I'm moving soon
see my feet are already on the road"

I Am Nothing:
"once I was someone new
I was chosen for a while
then with time I am changing
at least that is what they say

what is worth with being here
I pray so often for a change"

Quiet World:
"four numbers staring back at me
displaying the mediocrity of my presence"
 
if you would tell me that I was someone
then for a second I would think
just like I would try to consider
how it would feel to know
 
"I want to be forgotten, I want you to forgive"

"When you have no one, no one can hurt you"

"What is worth being here, I pray so often for a change"

"I'm just able to ruin you"

"She was so beautiful, I HAD TO KILL HER!"

-Vince
 
Oh you guys said almost everything..
there's just one more song left:

the entire, i simply couldn't pick a single line.


" four numbers staring back at me
displaying the mediocrity of my presence
i´m wasting my day wtching them change
the sun with it's blue sky outside
shining down on all you happy people
i´m wasting my day waiting for rain
need more methods to end each day
to be happy by living this way "
 
I forgot about this one
"four numbers staring back at me
displaying the mediocrity of my presence"

Great stuff!
 
"Decapitated body searching for it's head"

"Skull fragments are flying through the air"

"My lips are dry, you gave me drugs to try, hold me when I die"

"I don't want to hurt you, I just want to kill you"

"Look out the window twice just to be sure that no one is standing outside the door"

-Vince
 
Goddamn. An awesome topic. Getting shivers from just random lines of lyrics.
I had to contribute. There are so many good ones though...
One of my personal favourites would be

"My dreams of violence
See them coming true"

out of Criminals. The coolest way of saying that everything bad you've ever imagined is happening, if I interpreted it right... And with the music. That is a level of art that I'm never going to reach and it makes me feel a bit empty inside :)

Another one, which is not actually Katatonia, but written by Jonas for Swano and Edge of Sanity. Losing myself has probably one of the best texts that Renkse has written, in my opinion...

"I am lost
I feel I am sinking now
like I was made of rain"
 
Losing time
counting hours
I'll never see myself again
And even though I'm alone
I can't remember what I'm missing
So I leave it be

Closing down
I expect the hopelessness
And even though I'm alone
I can't remember what I'm missing
and that's all I need

I am lost
I feel I am sinking now
like I was made of rain
Like a wave I roll into the endless night

I am not afraid
as the darkness starts
to make its way
I breathe as hard as you
as I end my day
I sigh and shelter
as I try to sink that deep
as deepas you and make sure
that I won't fall asleep

Losing days
I need no hours
I'll never be myself again
And even though it's killing me
I can't remember what I'm missing
So I leave it be



is that it !?

cool dude! awesome lryics.
 
FatefuL said:
Losing time
counting hours
I'll never see myself again
And even though I'm alone
I can't remember what I'm missing
So I leave it be

Closing down
I expect the hopelessness
And even though I'm alone
I can't remember what I'm missing
and that's all I need

I am lost
I feel I am sinking now
like I was made of rain
Like a wave I roll into the endless night

I am not afraid
as the darkness starts
to make its way
I breathe as hard as you
as I end my day
I sigh and shelter
as I try to sink that deep
as deepas you and make sure
that I won't fall asleep

Losing days
I need no hours
I'll never be myself again
And even though it's killing me
I can't remember what I'm missing
So I leave it be



is that it !?

cool dude! awesome lryics.

That'd be the one. Just got the album, Infernal, end of last year and noticed the text. I thought all the lyrics were written by Swanö, but Losing myself was way too good to be written by him. Checked the covers and it read Renkse. First thought that came to mind: "I should have known..."

There is also a text by Åkerfelt from Opeth on Infernal, but that isn't too good actually... I think it's Forever Together Forever.
 
It is, and Swanö only wrote the lyrics for one song on that album. And that song is, interestingly enough, The Last Song, in which the lyrics about trying to write a song. \v/
 
burton said:
It is, and Swanö only wrote the lyrics for one song on that album. And that song is, interestingly enough, The Last Song, in which the lyrics about trying to write a song. \v/

hahahaha ! just saw these lyrics now.. i didn't knew about any of that .. I have The Spectral Sorrows , Crimson I & II from Edge of Sanity .. and these are the only ones I ever listened to..

funny! :tickled:
 
"they bless me with their fingers crossed, my youth is stolen, transformed and sold" fuck that kills my soul over and over again. just då hatar jag
 
Kinda surprised that lyrics from I Break have not come up......

"And this time I break
I will never make another day
defiant to what's delivered"

"I will find a way to sever myself"

"weakness of hope is the strength of decline"

"The artificial lightsource is creeping with flies"

"I'm only weather but only to me"