As most of us know, The Girl Who Was...Death is strongly inspired by the Prisoner, a TV-serie from 1967. In this article I will analyse the lyrics so we can understand more clearly what it all means. This is only my individual thoughts and meanings, and I'm not sure if it's right, but this is how I analysed it. In this article you will get spoilers from the series, so I recommend everyone to watch the series before reading this.

Don't trust him
When he turns his back
He looks at you
Don't trust him
When his eyes are closed:
He still looks at you

I think this is about the security in the Village. They have cameras everywhere so he(Number Two I suppose) can see you all the time.

I fled, I fled
Devouring the space
But the shapeless bulk
Was chasing me -enraged-
Breathing my footsteps
Unsated with killing me
Slowly

“The shapeless bulk” is the Rover which is chasing Number Six in several episodes. I suppose that “breathing my footsteps” comes from the sound that the Rover make (a breathing-sound) and “killing me slowly” is because the Rover normally paralyze people but can also kill.

Nailing my incandescent thoughts
Along the border
Of insanity
In a place where
A procession of fleshly numbers
Slides incessantly
Into the ironic waters
Of the cosmos
Seeking to remember
The sense
Of the impossible word:
Escape

I guess that the “fleshly numbers” is the numbers that every man who enters the Village gets a number. Escape is the impossible word because it is almost impossible to escape.

Who are you looking for?
What are you looking at?
A light? a star
A boat? an insect
A plane? a flying fish
I'm looking at somebody
Who belongs to my world
This is your world
I am your only world

This is the dialogue from the episode named Dance of the Dead. Number Six is standing on the beach when Number Two(dressed up as Peter Pan for the carnival later that night) asks who and what he is looking for. Number Six says “a light” then Number Two answers “a star” etc.

I can't remember
When the fog
- unravelling
The real and inexplicable
Contradictions
That crowd together
The human brain lobes -
Imprisoned me
In the spider's web
Of the one who touches
The minds of the mad
Curbing and churning
The confetti of their thoughts

Without corpses
There's no war
And without war
There's no victory
My dear!

I will not be pushed
Filed, stamped
Indexed
Briefed, debriefed
Or numbered!

This is something that Number Six says several times in the series.

- Nightmare -

Welcome, my friend!
Here whole generations
Of ghosts
Have raised
Their eyes and wings
Each morning
To unbounded space
With the innocent joy
Of crysalids
Greeting
Their final metamorphosis
And in the evening
They're dead and drooping
Like lifeless flowers
Swayed by the plaintive
Whistling of the wind
You must learn, we are all pawns
On this hopeless chessboard;
Your move!

Maybe you don't know my face
But well you know my name
- My name is Death
Dressed in white, smiling
The girl who was death
And loved me so much
Desiring to bring me back to her
The only way out
To no purpose

This is from the episode named The Girl Who Was...Death. The first three lines is something Death says to Number Six. Death is trying to kill him so he can't stop her fathers plans about taking over London. She also says that she loves him.

Why are they trying
To kill me?
Because they don't know
You are already
Dead!

Face to face
Shut up
In the cage of time
The man and I
Joined by fate
In the degree absolute
The challenge
Without return match
Where the price to one is:
Living
And pain to the other is:
Not dying!

This is from Once Upon a Time where Number Six and Number Two are shut up in a room that will be locked for one week and during this time only one will survive(this is called degree absolute)

The mask! The mask!
I must take off
His mask!
Now! Now!

This is from Fall Out where Number Six meets Number One, and Number One is wearing a mask.

But just as victory
Seems finally
To favour me
And the unknown
Persecutor appears
- Frame after frame -
In a slow instantaneous
Electric shock
Here is my contorted face
To reveal, sneering
The final dramatic
Deceit
When victim and hangman
Exchange roles

I think that this is from Fall Out when Number Six takes of Number One's mask and see that Number One is actually himself.

The triumphant freedom
Of a thousand dreams
Evaporates
In the reality
Of a new incubus
- Once again -
Made of
Smiles, masks, lifeless confetti
Be seeing you!

I think this is from Fall Out when Number Six escapes the Village, and the series ends with Number Six driving his car – the exact same scene as in the opening, and this can mean that he has only escaped one prison – The Village – but that he is now back to the real prison: society. This is only one of the things that it can mean.

Wandering through the catacombs of life
Desperately I plunge into the whirl
Wandering through the catacombs of life
Slowly I fall into the whirl of
- Hell -