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 the antidote and also the disease.
We're the oppressors who posses marks of the beast.
Mankind deserves this,
A catalyst for deconstruction.
A scapegoat to hold humanity on its knees.
A self-inflicted social anarchy to frighten the population into submission.
Intricate color schemes on TV hypnotize them while they sleep,
And from behind the scenes inject a fatal dose of misery.
So let these structures fall.
As buildings crumble,
Watch this metropolis transform to ruins.
We have no sympathy.
Victims lungs overflown with debris,
Their fractured bones exposed,
Lacerated is their skin.
This is a demonstration in the clout of government:
Failure to conform equals destruction.
At the end of this world we hold all the answers.
At the end of this world you'll posses only misery.
We're the oppressors who posses marks of the beast.
Mankind deserves this,
A catalyst for deconstruction.
A scapegoat to hold humanity on its knees.
A self-inflicted social anarchy to frighten the population into submission.
Intricate color schemes on TV hypnotize them while they sleep,
And from behind the scenes inject a fatal dose of misery.
So let these structures fall.
As buildings crumble,
Watch this metropolis transform to ruins.
We have no sympathy.
Victims lungs overflown with debris,
Their fractured bones exposed,
Lacerated is their skin.
This is a demonstration in the clout of government:
Failure to conform equals destruction.
At the end of this world we hold all the answers.
At the end of this world you'll posses only misery.
Lyrics submitted by BornOfMaya
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I think its obvious they just want to destroy everything. :)
I'm excited to see them tonight.
SO FUCKING METAL!!!!!!!!!! Just saw them live and Adam is a beast!!!!!! They may have melted my brain :)
Song is about the conspiracy theory linked with 9/11, pretty obvious.
The lyrics to this song are amazing!!!! some of the best lyrics in metal today in my opinion!
Adam is a great lyricist. Amazing writing and gives out a simple single message that can be only explained by human-kind.
We are the destruction of our own kind but, we can change the outcome. Ever since 9/11, it has opened the eyes of many people across the world. When years go by though, people are not so gullible anymore. We fear for the end of times so we rush to the nearest church and then they feed us more fear. Whenever we are the cause of the fear we've created.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
FDR
Just so you know Adam doesn't write these lyrics, he actually states pretty plainly at every show that the lyrics views aren't the same as his. Just thought I'd clear that up.
This song is about the Illuminati and was inspired by the 9/11 events. I have proof by the words of the man himself Adam Warren.
fucking beautiful