Don't love me
Don't you dare care for me
I will only bring you pain
All the pleasure you can gather in this place
Will just amount to shame
All the bright colors I've ever loved will learn to fade
So bring back the womb O' God
Or bring on the grave

So this is what it's like
What it's like to disappear
With the music of the spheres still ringing in my ear

How will I find my way out of this?


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    General Comment

    Brendan says:

    "The lyrics for this song can be taken in a couple different ways. One from the father to his son, and another as the earth singing to mankind. This is one of many parallels between the earth and the family that lives in this record."

    Revengaon August 05, 2007   Link
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    Don't love me Don't you dare care for me I will only bring you pain All the pleasure you can gather in this place Will just amount to shame All the bright colors I've ever loved will learn to fade So bring back the womb O' God Or bring on the grave

    So this is what it's like What it's like to disappear With the music of the spheres still ringing in my ear

    How will I find my way out of this?

    ciesl279on August 05, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    One of my favorites from the record...

    -ZERO-on August 11, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    I never really noticed the words in this song. I finally really listened to it with the lyrics and its great! I guess the father is wishing that the son either "stays small" or in the womb or to bring on his grave becuas ehe doesn't want to see his child go through what he did...

    Pioneer06on September 03, 2007   Link
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    General Comment

    I think it's from his perspective; maybe talking to god for part of it or, more likely, to someone close to him; like a lover, family member or friend. I think it is the writer, Brendan in this case, confessing that he has chased after the wrong things in this life, and it has changed him and he is sorry.

    appreci8on November 26, 2007   Link
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    Perhaps its not from the character's perspective at the beginning of the song and it's like the earth is speaking to him, telling him that she will only bring him pain and then he comes to realize that all colors fade,etc and he "disappears" so to speak and he gets lost in the vast sorrow of life while he hears the ringing of the spheres (Mi Fa Mi or Misery, Famine, Misery)

    candykaoson December 14, 2007   Link
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    this song can be synched to the music of the spheres

    youthinkyourejohnlennonon January 27, 2009   Link
  • -2
    General Comment

    I think it's pretty simple. The writer of the song is singing as the earth. He realizes the pain and the emptiness of this world and recognizes the eventual outcome of the earth. It's just a matter of time until this place is destroyed (or disappears) and we all are in one of two places (hint: they both start with an H)

    Music4aNurseon December 09, 2008   Link

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