This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
In our days we've mourned insignias
The passing glance unstamped
We’ve rendered ourselves powerless, unfortunate
The useless mend the fixed
And on every hour it detonates
My courage goes unlooked
The ride home through perilous
The land it goes, I will . . .
You’ve been a bad boy
You broke all the rules
You’ve been a bad boy
You’ll get yours paid in full
I, Robot will never die
My Robot will never die
You look down, but far from out
And the paper reads, "You lose"
I, Robot will never kill
A favor captain, a word with you
My systems gone and lost it's mind
My right eye has done shed a tear
My gun I’ve left behind
Will systems take me home and dissemble me?
Will I be terminated with you near?
Alongside the others that I hold so close
If I'm to be killed, then when? By whom?
You’ve been a bad boy
You broke all the rules
You’ve been a bad boy
You’ll get yours paid in full
I, Robot will never die
My Robot will never die
You look down, but far from out
And the paper reads, "You lose"
I, Robot will never die
The passing glance unstamped
We’ve rendered ourselves powerless, unfortunate
The useless mend the fixed
And on every hour it detonates
My courage goes unlooked
The ride home through perilous
The land it goes, I will . . .
You’ve been a bad boy
You broke all the rules
You’ve been a bad boy
You’ll get yours paid in full
I, Robot will never die
My Robot will never die
You look down, but far from out
And the paper reads, "You lose"
I, Robot will never kill
A favor captain, a word with you
My systems gone and lost it's mind
My right eye has done shed a tear
My gun I’ve left behind
Will systems take me home and dissemble me?
Will I be terminated with you near?
Alongside the others that I hold so close
If I'm to be killed, then when? By whom?
You’ve been a bad boy
You broke all the rules
You’ve been a bad boy
You’ll get yours paid in full
I, Robot will never die
My Robot will never die
You look down, but far from out
And the paper reads, "You lose"
I, Robot will never die
Lyrics submitted by genocia, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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i think it's "i, robot"
actually, its IRO-Bot. like the characters (coheed and cambria+their children+jesse and a few others) in the story. the Isaac Asimov novel 'I, Robot' was one of the inspirations for sanchez's rock opera, but he didn't just take the name verbatim, instead giving it a trademark twist. not to be a nerd or anything, but co&ca is way too cool to just scrap titles from famous sci-fi authors.
yea, it is i robot
no, its definitely IRO-bot it means Interceptive Recon Operative Bot. its in the comics, the dvds....come on.
this song is just beautiful :)
wtf!!!!where is this song????? how do i get to the secret song???!!! please email me and tell me!!! please!!!
oh nevermind..its at the end of the godsendconspirator track..duhhhh im dumb! i love coheed
Maybe I'll seem just a bit odd saying this...but has anyone else noticed that C&C always incorporate some kind of military persona? Like Captian, sergenat ect. ect.?
i love all that is co&ca... and now that you mention it xyouxtastexemox, i did notice that... maybe it has something to do with claudio's book, like maybe coheed is in the military? who knows? claudio does.
I think the first time it says I robot will never die, and the second time its MY...
if I'm to be killed then when, by whom?
does anyone know how to spell? it would be so nice if people knew proper spelling before they post lyrics. i'm not directly dissing this one.. just all of them in general. dictionaries are your friends...