"Standing by the paintings of your dreams that you have awoken, and all the purples and the greens have turned to black…"
Okay, yeah, it's a bit of a dark song at the first glance. But it's admitting how we're all imperfect and have dreams that must be released at some point. It's a very sweet song, like Nightwish's "Eva" and Evanescence's "My Immortal".
The language is very clean, and "See Me in Shadow" admits how no one's perfect, all "our lives do have our imperfection". Having "eyes wide open but still blind to see what really matters" is sadly more common than we like to remember.
I'm not sure, though, if "Forget yourself and who you are; another life is not that far" is meant to refer to restarting one's own goals in life or a reference to reincarnation. The music video has the wedding-garbed singer looking over the holdovers from her wrecked wedding before heading into a lake. So literally, the song might be talking about reincarnation, but it might be intentionally symbolic. The listener will have to decide how to accept that.
For anyone who's heard "Frozen", it's similar instrumentation. "See Me in Shadow" mixes rock music with the lovely piano and violin that opens the song and covers the verses, with electric guitar and such appearing for the verses.
Charlotte Wessels has a nice voice that is only slightly hindered by her Dutch accent. It mainly appears in slight sounds that she has an accent, but it's no biggie. Her voice sometimes echoes or changes a note in a verse to suit the song.
If you've liked such songs as "My Immortal"—this is better melded than that one's band version—or "Eva" I suggest you check it out.
Music: 5/5
Vocal(s): 4/5
Overall: 9/10
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