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"
Dance with me below crystal knives
Chandeliers ablaze
We'll dance in fear of our own lives
That our eyes contain
Behind these masks we renegade against the sound
We'll let our voices slowly fade and ring out
Crystal chandeliers hang
Crystal chandeliers hang
Gently swaying with our bodies, fall down
Race upon us, hammer into the ground
Crystal chandeliers hang
Crystal chandeliers hang
We dance among our shadows,
Our enemies connected feet to feet
We dance among our shadows
Our enemies connected feet to feet
I'll take the lead
I won't run I won't hide from this
Dance into the night
Gently swaying with our bodies fall down
Race upon us hammer into the ground
Crystal chandeliers hang
Crystal chandeliers hang
Hiding (hiding) behind a mask (only lasts til)
'Till you see the reflection of a liar in the glass
Chandeliers ablaze
We'll dance in fear of our own lives
That our eyes contain
Behind these masks we renegade against the sound
We'll let our voices slowly fade and ring out
Crystal chandeliers hang
Crystal chandeliers hang
Gently swaying with our bodies, fall down
Race upon us, hammer into the ground
Crystal chandeliers hang
Crystal chandeliers hang
We dance among our shadows,
Our enemies connected feet to feet
We dance among our shadows
Our enemies connected feet to feet
I'll take the lead
I won't run I won't hide from this
Dance into the night
Gently swaying with our bodies fall down
Race upon us hammer into the ground
Crystal chandeliers hang
Crystal chandeliers hang
Hiding (hiding) behind a mask (only lasts til)
'Till you see the reflection of a liar in the glass
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I believe we've established the meaning of the song to be hidden in the last lines; the rest of it is mostly sensory description.
One can lie to oneself all one pleases but those lies will no longer be able to fool anyone. The lies only last until realization of the lies themselves.
Images one attempts to portray are the masks of course which in the long run are also the lies.
Oh and my beliefs go all for you ExNihilo17 <br /> that's EXACTLY what I see when I hear this song.
Well, I think about it like this:
I think the chandeliers mentioned in the song symbolize people in general. They can be so beautiful, but that beauty can turn into destruction.
"Crystal chandeliers hang Crystal chandeliers hang Gently swaying with our bodies, fall down Race upon us, hammer into the ground"
As for the liar in the glass part at the end, I think it means that once you face who you really are, there's no hiding it. In this case, a liar.
Wooo I'm smart. :P
My opinion is that the crystal chandeliers symbolise the beautiful things in our lives.. We all feel good when beautiful things happen in our lives and we dance (swaing with our bodies) but when these things are destroyed it becomes dangerous (crystal knives when the chandeliers collapse) but we do not stop dancing either because we believe that by keeping on dancing even without the chandeliers will make us happy (mask of happiness) or because we become self-destructive... So when the chandeliers go up in flames the flame creates our "shadow" the dark side of ourselves and we become our own enemies (enemies connected feet to feet like our shadows connect to us feet to feet) and this metaphore goes for self-destruction that I mentioned before.. Last but not least.. keeping on dancing just to have the illusion that we are still happy is bacically lying to ourselves and therefore there's the "liar"... but no matter how hard we try when we look in the mirror we will see that our happiness is actually only a mask and that it's not real!! and you will know that you are unhappy!
i love this song.
Amazing
such an amazing song; not sure what it means but it's amazing. the girls are great
i think its talking about .. idk i just love this band
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Hmm well to me i see it as looking at the liar in the glass.. like a mirror.. yourself being the liar.. its saying like your hiding from who you truly are.. Good song.. Good band.. yupp yupp
wow eyes set to kill are fucking awesome...lindsey vogt has a great voice.
i love all of this bands songs..and this band in general..this is a perfect example why i luv myspace :D