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"
(Hi)
Scars will heal soon
This dreg in us spent the earth down
Better than drowning in a burlap sack
I live as Alice, I die
Children shouldn't play with dead things
Foaming crows tear at their wings
Sad eyes cry crimson blood
Drop it, it's dead
Wheels won't turn
They turn the bird's head
Sad eyes, sad eyes like sharpened daggers
You'll never walk, only stagger
Sad eyes, quite cryptic, bye
Scars will heal soon
This dreg in us spent the earth down
Better than drowning in a burlap sack
I live as Alice, I die
Children shouldn't play with dead things
Foaming crows tear at their wings
Sad eyes cry crimson blood
Drop it, it's dead
Wheels won't turn
They turn the bird's head
Sad eyes, sad eyes like sharpened daggers
You'll never walk, only stagger
Sad eyes, quite cryptic, bye
Lyrics submitted by catarina, edited by TheAdvance, UglyHobo, mkyweriga
Alice Practice Lyrics as written by Ethan Kath Alice Glass
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Okay guys, this song has no particular meaning. Alice Glass was secretly recorded during a soundcheck before the recording session by the sound engineer, and later he presented it to them as an extra track.
So why call it a song? Why produce it? And why listen to it? Man, there has got to be ONE song by this band I can muster up some respect for...
This is exactly what I hear, and I've listened this song song hundreds of times. I really don't see how some of you are getting "birdy's head" and "Christian" and "cryptic".
Hi Scars will heal soon This drug in us Split the earth Down
Better than drowning In a burlap Sack I live long Alice attack
Children shouldn't Play with dead things Only crawl Till our lonely sad eyes Cry crimson Blood
Drop it, it's dead Well retrun and take the body home Sad eyes
Sad eyes like sharpened daggers See, you'll never walk Only stagger Sad eyes Cry crimson Blood
Ok, so I've read the lyrics on the official website and listened to the track, she says what she says. But I've given this a one up because having listened to it with your lyrics, it sounds like she says this too!! XD<br /> <br /> I really like this 'version', if you can call it that, especially "This drug in us, split the earth down" and "Alice attack". Sick ^ ^<br /> <br /> Please people don't start arguing over this comment, I'm just saying, I like both and I kinda prefer these lyrics, even though she doesn't say it. It's my opinion, everyone's allowed one.
At some point, she definitely says: Children shouldn't play with dead things.
Ahh, it's after "I lisp, I die", which I think is: I live, I die.
But whatever...
it's def 'children shouldn't play with dead things', not 'sugar-shooting bled like deadbeats'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Shouldn%27t_Play_with_Dead_Things
This song makes me think of my old Amiga 600, particulerly the noises the games made when loading. It also makes me feel kinda empty and sad...without knowing why.
this song is fucking awesome!!
second that
No idea what it means, but what an awesome song. This is honestly the highlight of any Crystal Castles live show.
the first line is totally "scars won't heal" but otherwise this sounds pretty accurate to me.
im pretty sure this song has something to do with drugs and heroin.. "sugar shooting" referring to how she finds shooting up as sweet as sugar
and "bled with deadbeats" bleeding from the injection maybe.
and "you'll never walk only stagger" refering to being high and not being able to walk...
just a thought... let me know what you think