I never wanted to become someone like him, so secure
Content to live each day just like the last
I was sure, I knew that this was not for me
And I wanted so much more, far beyond what I could see
So, I swore that I'd never be someone like him
So many years have passed since I proclaimed
My independence, my mission, my aim and my vision, so secure
Content to live each day like it's my last
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It's wonderful to know that I could be something more than I dreamed
Far beyond what I could see, still I swear that I'm missing out this time
As far as I could tell, there's nothing more I need
But still I ask myself, could this be everything?
Then all I swore that I would never be was now
So, suddenly, the only thing I wanted to become
To be someone just like him
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Nitephall
This is one of my favorite DT songs, but I always struggled to figure out what an "octavarium" is. The only thing I can figure is that the average human life span is roughly 80 years. A person in their eighties is called an "octavarian." If you change "ian" to "ium", you get either a shape with 80 sides (which is ridiculous), or you can use your imagination and think of a person's lifespan on this earth as an "octavarium", an enclosure spanning more or less 80 years. And the cycle repeats over and over. As Labrie sings, "We move in circles/ Balanced all the while/ On a gleaming razor's edge." And further on, "The story ends where it began." Thus, one interpretation of the song is that it's a statement about the futility of human action. No matter what we do, we're going to die and other people will take our place, ad infinitum.
kendrapsrks05
if u add a song u should add the full song.:P
Sirius128
The lyrics are incomplete. This is just the Part I (Someone Like Him). There's missing other four parts.