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"
Look around, look around
There's no affection, only infection
Search yourself, search yourself
Can I depend on you to surrender?
And we will storm their shores
Eyes suffocating all they see
Feet sturdy on the rubble that will soon be dust
And there will be no ruins, no memory, no history
Only our unrelenting march side by side
We will comb the earth and sweep it clean
Hearts and feet unified
The hand of man is no match for our warless army
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(On my word, we will seize fate)
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(Destiny choked in our wage)
Steadfast soldiers with hands of Gods
And the numbers to succeed
We will persist until all that's left is a perfect sphere
Never a break in the chain
Never a folly of conviction
And may the traitors' ashes
Seal the barren landscape
We are the end!
We are the end!
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(On my word, we will seize fate)
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(Destiny choked in our wage)
Look around, look around
There's no affection, only infection
Search yourself, search yourself
Can I depend on you to surrender?
Can I depend on you to surrender?
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(On my word, we will seize fate)
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(Destiny choked in our wage)
There's no affection, only infection
Search yourself, search yourself
Can I depend on you to surrender?
And we will storm their shores
Eyes suffocating all they see
Feet sturdy on the rubble that will soon be dust
And there will be no ruins, no memory, no history
Only our unrelenting march side by side
We will comb the earth and sweep it clean
Hearts and feet unified
The hand of man is no match for our warless army
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(On my word, we will seize fate)
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(Destiny choked in our wage)
Steadfast soldiers with hands of Gods
And the numbers to succeed
We will persist until all that's left is a perfect sphere
Never a break in the chain
Never a folly of conviction
And may the traitors' ashes
Seal the barren landscape
We are the end!
We are the end!
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(On my word, we will seize fate)
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(Destiny choked in our wage)
Look around, look around
There's no affection, only infection
Search yourself, search yourself
Can I depend on you to surrender?
Can I depend on you to surrender?
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(On my word, we will seize fate)
Please tell me that this is the end of the world (and we will strike with the arms of Gods)
(And leave nothing in our wake) It's time that we erase history
(And we will strike with the arms of Gods) without a trace or a memory
(Destiny choked in our wage)
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We Are the End Lyrics as written by Wade Macneil Dallas Green
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Lots of corrections to be made here...
Suit yourself, suit yourself. should be Search yourself, search yourself
No memory or history, only an unrelenting burst should be No memory or history, only an unrelenting motor
Please tell me that this is the end of the world, it's time to re-erase history should be Please tell me that this is the end of the world, it's time that we erase history
We will persist till all it's worth is a perfect shame should be We will persist till all it's worth is a perfect sphere
Never a falling of perfect shame should be Never a folly or a conviction
And we will trade our word Still a barren landscape should all be And may the traitor's ashes seal the barren landscape
Crap, have to correct this even further
We will persist till all it's worth is a perfect shame should be We will persist till all that's left is a perfect sphere
wtf these lyricsare for a different song
thats better
well seems to me the song is about war and about how we will destroy ourselves and everything around us. kind of planet of the apes deal. minus the apes and everything..
It's about self distruction of the human race leeding to the planets inevitable destruction and our eventual demise.
I absolutely love this song. It starts out calm and right after the first verse, it just explodes into furious screaming and guitar, with no build whatsoever between. Then there's the amazing chorus. And the drumming...
I always think the part Dallas sings at the beginning is about STD's and "search yourself" to catch them and "cant depend on you to surrender" cuz the other person wouldnt tell you
I always think the part Dallas sings at the beginning is about STD's and "search yourself" to catch them and "cant depend on you to surrender" cuz the other person wouldnt tell you
Best alexisonfire song in my opinion. And by the looks of it not too many people think likewise.
Unlike a lot of their songs, this one finds it rythme early and sticks to it. Most of their songs jump all over the page, but this one knows its place and sticks to it.
I think its just a song for the people, that if they stick together and fight for whats right together, they will create a world for the better.
As for the person who says this is the words for a different song, they're a dipshit.