This Empty Flow was an atmospheric rock band from Turku, Finland, formed in… Read Full Bio ↴This Empty Flow was an atmospheric rock band from Turku, Finland, formed in 1994 by Jori Sjöroos (vocals, guitar, programming) and Niko Sirkiä (keyboards), also founders of funeral doom metal pioneer band Thergothon. Aku-Toumas Mattila (bass) joined the band in August.
In April 1995 This Empty Flow signed to the Italian label Avantgarde Music. Between September and November the band spent 12 days at the Studio U96 in Pori, Finland and recorded their debut album, "Magenta Skycode", released in March 1996. In November of the same year This Empty Flow played their first concert in Lahti, Finland, guitarist Jukka Sillanpää, producer of "Magenta Skycode", joined the band. In December Niko Sirkiä decided to leave the band to concentrate on his own projects.
In January 1997 This Empty Flow played their second concert in Helsinki, Finland with Jukka Sillanpää on guitar and Hanna Kalske on keyboards, but in the Summer of the same year they decided to disband. Jori Sjöroos and Aku-Toumas Mattila started their own new projects.
After the split-up there have been some other releases. "Three Empty Boys" was released in 1999 including 4 songs from the unreleased follower of the debut album and 7 studio rehearsals/demos recorded in 1995-97. After a mini album titled "Useless and Empty Songs" in 2000, in 2001 came out "Nowafter", a compilation album with rare and unreleased songs.
In March 2006 Eibon Records re-released "Magenta Skycode" along with a bonus CD of extra tracks from around the album's time period as a 2-CD album, simply titled "The Album".

Distress
This Empty Flow Lyrics

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This world is a deceiver
It is thirsty for my blood
The rain is liquid nitrogen
To my soul of a wrong colour

This world is a deceiver
It womits sticky oil on me
Stab me kill me

I hate this all to much.

May my face ripping tears be
The salt in your open wounds

…It all is
About to slip
From my hands
I want you
I don't want you
The white of yours
Is growing on me
The air is thin

I want to be gone
Broken and shattered…

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to This Empty Flow's song "Distress" convey the overwhelming feeling of despair in one's life. The first line, “This world is a deceiver,” points to the singer’s belief that the world is not what it seems - perhaps alluding to a feeling of being lost or disconnected. The imagery that follows suggests that the world is cruel and uncaring, thirsting for the singer's blood, and poisoning them metaphorically. The line "The rain is liquid nitrogen to my soul of the wrong colour" underscores this feeling of disillusionment, with the singer’s soul being out of place or incompatible with the world.

The following lines suggest the singer's desire for escape from this world that is causing so much distress. The repetitive image of being stabbed and killed could indicate the metaphorical death of the singer's sense of self, or a more literal desire to leave the world behind. The lines "May my face ripping tears be / The salt in your open wounds" suggests a desire for revenge or a hope that the pain they are experiencing will affect other people as well.

The final lines of the song suggest a longing for something undefined. The singer wants "you" and at the same time doesn't want "you," which may be a reference to a person or could simply represent a desire to be both present and disconnected at the same time. The lines "The white of yours / Is growing on me" suggest that the subject of the singer's longing is something pure or idyllic, and the lines "The air is thin / I want to be gone / Broken and shattered" convey the extent of the singer’s desire to escape, even at the cost of their own well-being.

Line by Line Meaning

This world is a deceiver
The world is false and untrustworthy

It is thirsty for my blood
The world desires to harm me

The rain is liquid nitrogen
The rain is extremely cold and painful

To my soul of a wrong colour
It hurts my inner being, which feels out of place

It womits sticky oil on me
It covers me in a disgusting, hard-to-remove substance

Stab me kill me
The singer feels overwhelmed and desires to cease living

I hate this all to much.
The despair and suffering are too much to bear

May my face ripping tears be
The artist's tears are so strong that they feel like they are tearing their face apart

The salt in your open wounds
The artist wishes their pain could be shared with others who are also suffering

It all is
The situation is overwhelming

About to slip
The singer is losing control