Dredg Redrawing The Island Map Lyrics

Passing lights, reed flashes [like]
Running by a wooden fence
Only a little light gets through
To grace its body [with its]
Aura, aura
Tracks beneath, rattle out [like]
The roofs above they only obstruct
The clouds and sounds
That would grace its body [with its]
Aura, aura
With its muzzled mouth...
While miming and juggling our souls
Look at its muzzled mouth...
Funnel out, the negative
Only the positive gets through
To grace its body
With its muzzled mouth...
While miming and juggling our souls
Look at its muzzled mouth....
While miming and juggling our souls
Can't fight our way outta here
Can't fight our way outta here
Look at the silly hat they make us wear
Look at those stupid tricks they make us do
How phobic and frantic they make us feel
Look at these stupid tricks they make us do
With its muscles out
Look at its muscles now
While miming and juggling our souls
Look at its muscles now
While miming and juggling our souls
Can't fight our way outta here
Can't fight our way outta here
Can't fight our way outta here [our way outta here]

An "El Cielo" outtake that was recorded in 2001.

Reed: Definition - Any of various tall perennial grasses, having hollow stems, broad leaves, and large plume-like terminal panicles.

Aura: Definition - A distinctive but intangible quality that seems to surround a person or thing; an atmosphere.

The basic meaning of the song is about the idea and system of sleep, sleep paralysis, and lucid dreams. This particular song could be based on a single man, who suffers from Sleep Paralysis. He even realizes how predictable his paralysis episodes are have become; but realizes that he "can't fight his way outta here", and wants to scream, but can't.

The lyric: "with its muzzle mouth" refers to a part of sleep paralysis that does not allow one to talk or scream out, even though one usually tries.