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"
Chews the fat with his creator
Over breakfast in the sunlight
Through when he says grace,
When he says grace, he feels enveloped like a shadow
There are evenings when this decimated world of movement, colour, form,
Is thin and getting thinner
When lights are dim and getting dimmer
when nights are grim and they're only getting,
Only getting grimmer
As they barter their boulders and martyr their soldiers,
Teach a man to tear her fucking head from her goddamn shoulders
Held into the sun by the threads of her hair,
They impart a secret hatred from their fathers to their heirs
Suppressed and unaddressed the simple fact remains unspoken,
In silence left unbroken, on a bed bound and gagged
With culture, language, myth and law: our Goddess gave birth to your God
From a wounded womb where her flesh scarred and raw
Our Goddess gave birth to your God
Over breakfast in the sunlight
Through when he says grace,
When he says grace, he feels enveloped like a shadow
There are evenings when this decimated world of movement, colour, form,
Is thin and getting thinner
When lights are dim and getting dimmer
when nights are grim and they're only getting,
Only getting grimmer
As they barter their boulders and martyr their soldiers,
Teach a man to tear her fucking head from her goddamn shoulders
Held into the sun by the threads of her hair,
They impart a secret hatred from their fathers to their heirs
Suppressed and unaddressed the simple fact remains unspoken,
In silence left unbroken, on a bed bound and gagged
With culture, language, myth and law: our Goddess gave birth to your God
From a wounded womb where her flesh scarred and raw
Our Goddess gave birth to your God
Lyrics submitted by gorgonseye, edited by TheMFYeti
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think this song is about paganism leading to modern chirstianity. In a nutshell.
From Arif's mouth himself, the whole idea behind the album is the loss of faith in science and reemerging of goddess worship. With that said: Chews the fat with his creator Over breakfast in the sunlight (through when he says grace) When he says grace He feels enveloped like a shadow
It is when a man says grace that he becomes conscious of his actions. this consciousness is the very concept that clouds his idea of choice and therefore clouds his sense of divinity. because with goddess worship, nature and everything natural, such as ones subconscious, is divine due to its mere existence. It is like nihilism and existentialism in the sense that there is no real right or wrong, the only thing wrong would be to lie to yourself and believe that there is a universal, objective set of ethics that everyone should follow (or else...)
there are evenings when this decimated world of movement, colour, form, is thin and getting thinner - when lights are dim and getting dimmer (when nights are grim and getting grimmer)
this beautiful world is defiled and perverted by mans consciousness and ethics
as they barter their boulders and martyr their soldiers, teach a man to tear her fucking head from her shoulders
they demean the natural value or divinity of boulders and they give men a false idol to kill themselves for. they are teaching everybody to become conscious of their actions, to have faith, and to kill the goddess
held into the sun by threads of her hair as they impart a secret hatred from their fathers to their heirs
the mens subconscious secretly hates their fathers for feeding them such bs
In silence left unbroken On the bed bound and gagged With culture, language, myth, and law Our goddess gave birth to your god
the goddess remains silent and unconscious as she is being raped by language, myth, and law. all of which are the conscious man's pitiful attempts to interpret and explain what cannot be explained, the incomprehensible idea of incomprehension. the natural divinity of the world cannot be explained and therefore should not be explained.
As Ravolution basically said, this song is about the goddess being raped by consciousness and giving birth to idolatry and modern religion
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um, k i say a ROUND OF CHEERS TO THE MEOW BREAKDOWN! xD
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TEAR HER FUCKING HEAD FROM HER GOD DAMN SHOULDERS! fuck I love this song
meow :D
Chews the fat with his creator Over breakfast in the sunlight (through when he says grace) When he says grace He feels enveloped like a shadow But there are evenings There are evenings when this decimated world of movement, colour, form (gets thin) And getting thinner (When lights are dim) And getting dimmer When nights are grim And they're only getting Only getting grimmer (?)
As they water their boulders And martyr their soldiers Takes a man to tear her fucking head from her goddamn shoulders
Held into the sun By the threads of her hair By the threads of her hair By the threads of her hair
They impart a secret hatred from their fathers to their heirs
In silence left unbroken On the bed bound and gagged Bound, bound and gagged With culture, language, myth, and law Our goddess gave birth Our goddess gave birth to your god
On the bed bound and gagged With culture, language, myth, and law From a wounded womb where her flesh is scarred and raw
our goddess gave birth to your god our goddess gave birth to your god our goddess gave birth to your god our goddess gave birth to your god GODDAMN
With culture, language, myth, and law From a wounded womb where her flesh is scarred and raw (our goddess gave birth to your god)
There's probably a lot more to this song, but the last line basically sums up the point. But yeah, this song kicks ass. The gay little high-pitched singing at "when lights are dim" is awesome. Best part of the song.
"Flidais is a figure in Irish mythology, a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann. She is known by the epithet Foltchaín ("beautiful hair")."
Limb from Limb is about irish mythology, specifically Flidais. Now the reason i bring this is up because of
"held into the sun by threads of her hair as they impart a secret hatred from their fathers to their heirs"
which could be about Flidais again.