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"
Oh my god I think I'm blind.
I've found one color won't suffice,
You promised, sleep tonight.
But I know this,
By the curse of the dead,
Is to protect all your children.
One more, one more, one more than I,
To fight off the bad guy
Now go to sleep
Nightmares make these,
Scars of stomaches blooding you.
Quicksands, sinking eyes,
Makes for heavy sigh.
It's painless, it's painless,
To float above the earth, like this
Tie me to a chair,
Subconsciously, surrendering.
Now that I'm awake, it's hard for me to make believe.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
Blood between the sheets, insomniatic me. (oh)
(Catch the liar)
Fright of nightmares, leading upstairs, do I follow?
(Catch me lying)
Tie me to a chair,
Subconsciously, surrendering.
Now that I'm awake, it's hard for me to make believe
This is the worst thing that you've ever done
I've found one color won't suffice,
You promised, sleep tonight.
But I know this,
By the curse of the dead,
Is to protect all your children.
One more, one more, one more than I,
To fight off the bad guy
Now go to sleep
Nightmares make these,
Scars of stomaches blooding you.
Quicksands, sinking eyes,
Makes for heavy sigh.
It's painless, it's painless,
To float above the earth, like this
Tie me to a chair,
Subconsciously, surrendering.
Now that I'm awake, it's hard for me to make believe.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
This is the worst thing that you have ever done.
Blood between the sheets, insomniatic me. (oh)
(Catch the liar)
Fright of nightmares, leading upstairs, do I follow?
(Catch me lying)
Tie me to a chair,
Subconsciously, surrendering.
Now that I'm awake, it's hard for me to make believe
This is the worst thing that you've ever done
Lyrics submitted by grimmreaper212
Insomniatic Meat Lyrics as written by Alejandro Martinez Linares Alejandro M. Linares
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is one of the best songs from the new album! I think this song is about insomnia and that "disconnected" feeling you get with no sleep.
Maybe also, "subconsciously Surrendering Now that I'm awake", he's not sure any more if he's awake or not..
shrug awesome song!
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Say Hello to Sunshine is extremely different from What it is to Burn, and from everything else coming out today. Finch's sound on WiitB was like a bridge between Deftones metal GlassJaw type hardcore, and pure pop punk. On SHtS, Finch sounds like an early 90's heavy metal band trying to be a 2005 hardcore band. I don't mean that to sound negative, this album is incredibly creative and experimental. With SHtS, Finch has taken a step towards becoming one of the great rock bands of this generation, but may be losing many of its punk fans in the process.
i agree with monstermonster on the meaning of this song's lyrics finch may lose a lot of its punk fans but it wil surely gain more they have matured to a great and better sound..
i agree with monstermonster on the meaning of this song's lyrics finch may lose a lot of its punk fans but it wil surely gain more they have matured to a great and better sound..
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'Maturing'?.. Where are the catchy riffs, the quasi romantic lyrics? The RYTHM?. They're all gone. This whole CD is pointless, trying to sound hardcore bleh! As if they were never pop-punk. What? Oh yea about the song meaning, it's about a guy who murders in his sleep so he tries to stay awake..Oh how original!
Unrelased you clearly don't know anything about hardcore.
This album sounds nothing like anything hardocore. Finch are much more talented then then that! This album is very different from "WITB" But for the better i think. They songs have plenty of Rythem, You would have to be part stupid not to get into the feel of these songs.
And i thought the meaning to the lyrics were original!
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Unreleased, here's the problem. "What It Is To Burn" was an awesomely good album in some ways eg. tons of catchy tunes, soaring choruses etc. But if Finch had released another, more similar album, then it would have been a very cynical, money-driven thing to do. By slating the band as acting "as if they were never pop-punk", you're suggesting that changing is a bad thing. When they do it like this, it ain't! If you like Finch, just listen to the new album more. It gets better every time. If you want to listen to the old album, it ain't goin' anywhere! Oh, and Insomniatic is right. "The Casket Of Roderic Usher" sucks a bit on CD. It's great live, though. I saw Finch on the first night of their UK tour supported by Million Dead. They closed with "What It Is To Burn". Now that is a show!
Oh, and I have NO clue what the song is about, but the best bit is in the first verse, the line Nightmares make these... scars, a stomach's bloody hooooooOOOOOOOLE!!!!!!!!!" That is the best damn scream in rock music. Ooooh...
This album is awesome, but What It Is To Burn was better. I don't think a whole lot of thought goes into Finch lyrics these days though.