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"
Roaming through shambles
Hand in hand
Our fingernails digging into palm
To indicate our first first reaction
Soaked my shoulder with your eyes
I run through my head
Without caution to find the words
To get you to stop
Sobbing I utter the phrases
Of what we will build back up
Won't make the same mistakes again
We will talk
Won't pull away when
One wants to show affection
Soaked your shoulder with my eyes
Overwhelmed by emotion
Overwhelmed with the feeling
That everything will be ok
Overwhelmed everyone will be
Take these new songs of youth
Because you are aware
Write new songs for youth
Because they rot inside.
It just showed up
Bags in hand, bags in hand.
It gives me chills
How easy I thought it would be.
So I let it in
Bags in hand, bags in hand...
Hand in hand
Our fingernails digging into palm
To indicate our first first reaction
Soaked my shoulder with your eyes
I run through my head
Without caution to find the words
To get you to stop
Sobbing I utter the phrases
Of what we will build back up
Won't make the same mistakes again
We will talk
Won't pull away when
One wants to show affection
Soaked your shoulder with my eyes
Overwhelmed by emotion
Overwhelmed with the feeling
That everything will be ok
Overwhelmed everyone will be
Take these new songs of youth
Because you are aware
Write new songs for youth
Because they rot inside.
It just showed up
Bags in hand, bags in hand.
It gives me chills
How easy I thought it would be.
So I let it in
Bags in hand, bags in hand...
Lyrics submitted by Guttersharkk
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Amazing almost as if to say .Learn from all my mistakes and write songs for youth because they need them the most. I hope bags in hand doesnt mean its the last album as to say they are packing up and leaving...
The way I interpret this song is some sort of destructive tragedy taking place, such as a house burning down, and starting life over again. Seeing that "shambles" generally refer to a site of destruction, I picture something along the lines of Jeff or someone close to him digging through a wreckage of a house or something that they will "build back up". I think whoever the other person is, probably isn't someone that he normally shows affection to, hence the "We won't pull away when one wants to show affection" line. (maybe his father) Both of them are "Overwhelmed by emotion" and crying on each others shoulders, while Jeff struggles to think of things to say to make him stop. Despite the huge wreck, theres an underlying sense of hope, especially when he says "overwhelmed by the feeling that everything will be okay" haha I don't think it means they're packing up and leaving, at least I hope it doesn't. I think seeing that he says this after all of that noise and after the instruments stop, It could be him reflecting back on the tragedy, basically saying it came out of nowhere, and whatever this was, he could have prevented it, but instead he just "let it in", and let his life change. But that parts a bit of a stretch, I'd like to hear if anyone else had any better interpretations.
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this song is about getting back with a former girlfriend, and how this time they are gonna do it right, i happen tobe going through the same thing right now
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the drummers dad died, so he personified himself as a slave.
hence. the cannonballs, shambles, bodies on the bedroom floor.-dead slaves by him
it all makes sense if you think about it.