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"
We are alive for a moment
One second in the great abyss of time
All the bleedin', all the hate
Just one blink of an eye
All the conflicts, it visits dire pain on human life
Are we missing what it is to be alive?
One by one the pieces fall
Until our pride defeats us all
We learn to live without it
[Chorus]
Wake up!
To the sound of this time bomb
Wake up!
To it's deafening song
Wake up!
Cause you don't what you've got until it's gone
Until it's gone
Our innocence is a virtue
But our arrogance will only leave us blind
Unattended without anyone to save our idle lives
Will we find out that everything we know exists inside of a fraction
Of a fraction
One by one the pieces fall again
[Chorus: x2]
One by one the pieces fall
Until our pride defeats us all
Yeah!
One by one the pieces fall (one by one the pieces fall)
Until our pride defeats us all
Defeats us all!
Yeah!
Oh!
[Chorus: x2]
It's gone away
Yeah
One second in the great abyss of time
All the bleedin', all the hate
Just one blink of an eye
All the conflicts, it visits dire pain on human life
Are we missing what it is to be alive?
One by one the pieces fall
Until our pride defeats us all
We learn to live without it
[Chorus]
Wake up!
To the sound of this time bomb
Wake up!
To it's deafening song
Wake up!
Cause you don't what you've got until it's gone
Until it's gone
Our innocence is a virtue
But our arrogance will only leave us blind
Unattended without anyone to save our idle lives
Will we find out that everything we know exists inside of a fraction
Of a fraction
One by one the pieces fall again
[Chorus: x2]
One by one the pieces fall
Until our pride defeats us all
Yeah!
One by one the pieces fall (one by one the pieces fall)
Until our pride defeats us all
Defeats us all!
Yeah!
Oh!
[Chorus: x2]
It's gone away
Yeah
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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i think it means that we always let out pride and selfishness get the best of us, and if we don't do something about it....it's eventually going to kill us, and we'll end up w/ nothing!!
it's saying how the world shouldn't be so bad when we only have a little while to be in it. It's saying wake up and realize that pretty soon it'll all be gone and all the memories we have will be of bad shit and nothing good or worth remembering, so change, :]
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WAKE UP PEOPLE!
ah sum1 beat me 2 posting this =/. at least i get first comment. great song i love that theyre evolving nd sounding so much better. im expecting big things from this album, especially after in the wake of determination was a letdown nd the massively lnog wait for the new album.
sorry lol after seein this a few corrections, but here's the whole song neways.
We are alive for a moment One second in the great abyss of time All the bleeding, all the hate Just one blink of an eye All the conflicts, it visits dire pain on human life Are we missing what it is to be alive?
One by one the pieces fall Until our pride defeats us all We learn to live without it
WAKE UP! To the sound of this time bomb WAKE UP! To its deafening song WAKE UP! Cause you don't what you've got until it's gone Until it's gone
Our innocence is a virtue But our arrogance will only leave us blind Unattended without anyone to save our idle lives Will we find out that everything we know exists inside of a fraction Of a fraction
One by one the pieces fall again
WAKE UP! To the sound of this time bomb WAKE UP! To its deafening song WAKE UP! Cause you don't what you've got until it's gone Until it's gone WAKE UP! To the sound of this time bomb WAKE UP! To its deafening song WAKE UP! Cause you don't what you've got until it's gone Until it's gone away!
One by one the pieces fall Until our pride defeats us all Yeah!
One by one the pieces fall (one by one the pieces fall) Until our pride defeats us all DEFEATS US ALL! YEAH!
OOHH!! WAKE UP! To the sound of this time bomb WAKE UP! To its deafening song WAKE UP! Cause you don't what you've got until it's gone Until it's gone WAKE UP! To the sound of this time bomb WAKE UP! To its deafening song WAKE UP! Cause you don't what you've got until it's gone Until it's gone away
It's gone away Yeah
i think it means that we always let out pride and selfishness get the best of us, and if we don't do something about it....it's eventually going to kill us, and we'll end up w/ nothing!!
this song is great im also expecting big things from this album
So it's great to see they are going back to there old ways using the the turn table. The song is about how we are wasting our lives with war and destruction, we take for granted our lives.
Anyway I hope they do another song like in her bedroom..that my favorite song by these guys such a sick mix at the end of the song..If you haven't heard it..FIND IT
I don't know how anyone can say In the Wake... was a let down. That was one of the best albums I've ever had the pleasure of exposing my ears to. It was very metal and I am a very metal person. I also have had the chance to listen to the entire NEW album and I must say...I wet my pants just a little. You think In the Wake... was too metal...oh you're going to love The Black Swan!
he think maybe hes saying that everyone in the world is unbelievably arrogant..that they think they can solve anything..thinking they are always right and stand strong, but never want to see it how others might see it. and then finally their being stupid has them lose whatever they hold dear. eg: your kids, your wife/husband, your friends, maybe your job...thats just me..cuz i have had a recent experience..i was stupid and never wanted to listen to my wife and thinking she could never prove me wrong..and then eventually it turned out she was right and i fucked up and now i am alone and on my own with my kids and wife away from me..this song really motivates me to get my shit together. it should motivate anyone like this...awesome song story of the year!!!!! you rock my socks!!!! WAKE UP EVERYONE!!!