The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
She cried when she found it. Its feathers were matted and pressed to its side. Its wings were no longer able. Still she begged it to fly. Its body as frail as paper, and wet from her tears. She knelt in the damp grass praying it to heaven, gently pressing its head to her heart.
The devil's in the daughters room
There will be no second knife
She reached for a dream
And he smiled as he watched her. She was ever so beautiful in sleep. Like father (his son made in his image) her eyelids gently closed. Lids concealing her dreams. He stood over her bed.
One deep stab kill the hourglass
Let the stand leak slowly from its body
Draw out the time until it breathes its lastspilling
The devil's in the daughters room
There will be no second knife
She reached for a dream
And he smiled as he watched her. She was ever so beautiful in sleep. Like father (his son made in his image) her eyelids gently closed. Lids concealing her dreams. He stood over her bed.
One deep stab kill the hourglass
Let the stand leak slowly from its body
Draw out the time until it breathes its lastspilling
Lyrics submitted by OMGstephanie
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
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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:
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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
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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.
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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the first part of this is amazing...which on my computer comes before this song, anyway
I can't believe not a lot of people commented on this! This is the first FBtMoF song I've heard, plus I am planning to do an image that's inspired by this song.
Can't really relate any experiences to it, I just think that this is beautiful
gotta love your fear before. it's a good/evil sort of thing. the girl would personify beauty, hope, love, etc. the father, or devil, would be her murderer/tormentor.
The beggining of this song, which is actually the ending to Go wash your mouth is one of the most moving songs I have ever heard. I can't put my finger on it but the guitar and the vocals are just extremely depressing
these lyrics are off
always though its posted that the acoustic ending to go wash you mouth is the beginning of this
but either way
those lyrics are wrong for the beginning and the middle talking part isnt even there when he says again
she cried when she found it he smiled as he watched her
like that part makes it into like a trap
in her dreams hes manipulating her dreams and she falls for it and i think that the acoustic part from go wash your mouth
is her dream of a fallen angel
and then this is when she is having the dream and he takes her life away
not sure why exactly i know fear before goes into god and such quite often in their songs but i dont see them heavily as a religous group of people
but maybe influenced by biblical literature
ill look into it. but its intense like all fear before
I think this song is about a broken dream and the decay of it the "she cried when she found it" part makes me think of a bird, and I think that the bird may have been a metaphor for a dream, maybe cause birds fly high up in the air and dreams are sometimes too high up for us to reach. When it says "wings were no longer able, still she begged it to fly" I think it's kind of that the dream hit rock bottom but she was desperate for it to 'soar' again, for it to come true. When it says that she "prayed it to heaven" I think it means that she's finally realised that her dream will never come true and so she's resigning all hope and laying it to rest. Or maybe it's simply talking about a dead bird.
this song gets its meaning from the movie American Beauty. the main character in the movie finds a bird thats been hurt and adam is mearly explaing how she feels about it.
"There will be no second knife"
I always heard this as "There will be a soaking knife" as in blood-soaked.
The 'second knife' part is correct however you can definitely tell that it is "a second knife" and not "no second knife" as there is no harsh -N consonant at the end of "be _a[no]"
my friend talked to adam about this song a while ago, and adam said this song is about him walking in on his sister getting raped in her room by her "friend"... its pretty fucked up
Holy shit!! You gotta be kidding!!
Actually I heard that this song, along with the rest on their debut album are based off of different movies. This one being The General's Daughter, where a character is raped.