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"
The tide rolls by and I wonder why I felt inclined to try,
My starry eyes were sacrificed
The sea divides but I don't wanna get lost in the ocean
I don't wanna get lost in the ocean now
And as our single climbs the charts,
I feed on their virgin blood from their bleeding hearts
With my pants around my ankles, I play my part
I built the ark but I don't wanna get lost in the ocean
Earth starts spinning around to the motion
But I don't really even care if I'm alone now
Whoa whoa
And I don't even give a damn about falling in love
Falling in love
Body burdened by my heavy heart of stone now
Whoa whoa
And I don't really give a damn about falling in love
And I don't really even care if I'm alone now
Their flesh is sustenance; I cackle as I prey upon the weak poor
I have no feeling and this prison is a home
I have no heart, I sold my soul
And I don't really even care if you're listening
"Why won't you wait for me?"
"Why aren't you waiting for me?"
Never again
My starry eyes were sacrificed
The sea divides but I don't wanna get lost in the ocean
I don't wanna get lost in the ocean now
And as our single climbs the charts,
I feed on their virgin blood from their bleeding hearts
With my pants around my ankles, I play my part
I built the ark but I don't wanna get lost in the ocean
Earth starts spinning around to the motion
But I don't really even care if I'm alone now
Whoa whoa
And I don't even give a damn about falling in love
Falling in love
Body burdened by my heavy heart of stone now
Whoa whoa
And I don't really give a damn about falling in love
And I don't really even care if I'm alone now
Their flesh is sustenance; I cackle as I prey upon the weak poor
I have no feeling and this prison is a home
I have no heart, I sold my soul
And I don't really even care if you're listening
"Why won't you wait for me?"
"Why aren't you waiting for me?"
Never again
Lyrics submitted by i am parker lewis, edited by Bugglebum
About Falling Lyrics as written by Max Bemis
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matt skiba's part is amazing, shut the fuck up. i love it, definitely my favorite off the new album.
matt skiba and max bemis, my favorite frontmans in one song. heaven? yes.
i noticed that nobody commented on the beat boxing type shit that goes on at the end of the song, i love that part its something theyve never done, it makes the ending way cooler
I love at the end when its the breathy female voice singing "why won't you wait for me, why aren't you waiting for me?" and Max busts into it with "NEVER AGAIN!" Whenever I hear that part, I picture him sitting on the floor of a room, going insane covering his ears and writhing around trying to block out the girl's voice. Idk, that's just how that part seems.
heartbreking.thx
i. can't. wait. to hear the real version of this song, and not the live one,
fbhejgfbyrelbfhejbfh this song is amazing. :D
SO excited for 10/23
the tide rolls by and i wonder why i felt inclined to try my starry eyes were sacrificed the sea divides but i don’t want to get lost in the ocean now and as our single climbs the charts i feed on their virgin blood from their bleeding hearts with my pants around my ankles, i play my part i’ve built the ark but i don’t want to get lost in the ocean earth starts spinning around to the motion of that i don’t really even care if i’m alone now and i don’t really give a damn about falling in love body burdened by my heavy heart of stone now and i don’t really even care if i’m alone now their flesh is sustenance; i cackle as I prey upon the weak and poor i have no feeling and this prison is a home i have no heart, i sold my soul and i don’t really even care if you’re listening “why won’t you wait for me? why aren’t you waiting for me?” never again
Listen to the album version here rollingstone.com/news/story/16824828/say_anything_sing_about_everything_on_twodisc_in_d%20efense_of_the_genre_listen_to_exclusive_track
Max states that the song is about "a place in a person's life where they accept that they're alone, coming out of a relationship"
Listen to the album version here rollingstone.com/news/story/16824828/say_anything_sing_about_everything_on_twodisc_in_d%20efense_of_the_genre_listen_to_exclusive_track
Max states that the song is about "a place in a person's life where they accept that they're alone, coming out of a relationship"
so sick, matt skiba fucks shit up