To Miss Catherine
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die Lyrics


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Hide out, it's certainly a safe place. With lights out and blankets shielding bodies from the cold. I know that there exists polaroids of clothing that you used to wear. Your skin constructed cities as it flaked into the stitches and the seams. Dearest, you left me with a closet where the moths digest a promise that ""I'll never tell a soul"" I know that you know. We stack bricks we're building a brand new city where we'll sleep safely and underwater. Where we are all the same, we're breathless sculptures.




Overall Meaning

The lyrics of The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die's song To Miss Catherine revolve around a deeply emotional and nostalgic theme. The songwriter reflects on a past relationship with someone named Catherine who seems to have passed away or left them. They are reminiscing about the small details of their life together, like the clothing she wore and the way her skin shed in the stitches and seams of their clothes. The line "Dearest, you left me with a closet where the moths digest a promise that 'I'll never tell a soul'" suggests that there may have been a secret or some hidden truth between the two of them.


The second half of the song takes on a more hopeful tone as the songwriter imagines a new world, built out of bricks and where everyone is the same, "breathless sculptures." This could be interpreted as a desire for a world where people are free from the pain and judgment that can come with individuality and instead find safety in anonymity.


Overall, the lyrics of To Miss Catherine convey a sense of loss, longing, and hope for a better future.


Line by Line Meaning

Hide out, it's certainly a safe place.
We're taking refuge somewhere where we feel secure and protected from harm.


With lights out and blankets shielding bodies from the cold.
We're in a situation where we've turned off the lights and are trying to keep warm with blankets to help us through the cold.


I know that there exists polaroids of clothing that you used to wear.
I am aware of the fact that there are photographs of clothes that you wore in the past.


Your skin constructed cities as it flaked into the stitches and the seams.
Your skin has left behind traces of itself that are so intricate and detailed that they look like tiny cities in the fabric of clothing.


Dearest, you left me with a closet where the moths digest a promise that ""I'll never tell a soul"
My dear, you left me with a secret that's being kept by the moths in our closet, promising that it will never be revealed to anyone else.


I know that you know.
I am aware that you have knowledge of something important or secret.


We stack bricks we're building a brand new city where we'll sleep safely and underwater.
We're constructing a new city for ourselves, where we can sleep safely even when submerged underwater.


Where we are all the same, we're breathless sculptures.
In this new city, we are all equal and we're like lifeless sculptures, unable to breathe or move.




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Written by: The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die

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Always been one of my favorites

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