“Beneath” is simpler than many of the tracks on Destroy Erase Improve, but it’s not exactly straightforward. Lyrically or musically.
The lyrics seem to describe the narrator’s journey from self analysis through self loathing and ultimately to a moment of self annihilation (in the philosophical or s...
[Verse 1]
It's time to go into the me below
My morbid self beneath
A peril trip the last way out
I spin as I let go
In spirals down the narrow lines
Passing through my aura
Spit me out into my mind
A journey through disease
[Chorus 1]
I'm behind my cynic eyes
That stare but cannot see
The sickness in me
Beneath
[Verse 2]
I fall in untruthful me
The essence of my thoughts
Swirling in a thousand vows
Endless, truthless
[Chorus 2]
What am I this me beneath
A vain organic lie
That rules me from inside
[Verse 3]
Immobile now I bow
Before reality itself
It's substance moving through my eyes
My life is transferred once
Suffused upon my mind
The view erases
Burns inside and then
Another fall
[Chorus 3]
I plunge into a well of lies
A cold perennial flow
The vortex of my soul
Beneath was written by Fredrik Thordendal & Tomas Haake.
Beneath was produced by Daniel Bergstrand.