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"
My memory
Hangs like the stain glass of the saints past history
I bury deep, Saint Anthony
I hear that he can help me find the things I need
Alaska winters pray for endless summer days
But the sun won't go away
Just like me I'll bet they really want to change
I can run as far as London
But my past has first class seats
The lighthouse lost it's beam
Now all I see
Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing
I fear for my life.
That the current tonight
Is stronger than the will that I have to survive
So breathe her alive
So breathe her alive
So breathe her alive
Is it just me
Or do you wonder if we're put here just to see
How much heartache we can take
Without hanging from the tallest tree?
I feel as lonely as a preachers wife
My heart's a Russian night
I drink to try to melt the ice
The Cold War in my mind
The truth hides between the lines
The lighthouse lost it's beam
And now all I see
Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing
I fear for my life
That the current tonight
Is stronger than the will that I have to survive
So breathe her alive
Breathe her alive
Because we'll make it through this
No matter the odds
All bets are on
It's always darkest just before the dawn
The lighthouse lost it's beam
And now all I see
Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing
I fear for my life
That the current tonight
Is stronger than the will that I have to survive
The lighthouse lost it's beam
And now all I see
Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing
I fear for my life
That the current tonight
Is stronger than the will that I have to survive
So breathe her alive
So breathe her alive
So breathe her alive
Hangs like the stain glass of the saints past history
I bury deep, Saint Anthony
I hear that he can help me find the things I need
Alaska winters pray for endless summer days
But the sun won't go away
Just like me I'll bet they really want to change
I can run as far as London
But my past has first class seats
The lighthouse lost it's beam
Now all I see
Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing
I fear for my life.
That the current tonight
Is stronger than the will that I have to survive
So breathe her alive
So breathe her alive
So breathe her alive
Is it just me
Or do you wonder if we're put here just to see
How much heartache we can take
Without hanging from the tallest tree?
I feel as lonely as a preachers wife
My heart's a Russian night
I drink to try to melt the ice
The Cold War in my mind
The truth hides between the lines
The lighthouse lost it's beam
And now all I see
Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing
I fear for my life
That the current tonight
Is stronger than the will that I have to survive
So breathe her alive
Breathe her alive
Because we'll make it through this
No matter the odds
All bets are on
It's always darkest just before the dawn
The lighthouse lost it's beam
And now all I see
Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing
I fear for my life
That the current tonight
Is stronger than the will that I have to survive
The lighthouse lost it's beam
And now all I see
Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing
I fear for my life
That the current tonight
Is stronger than the will that I have to survive
So breathe her alive
So breathe her alive
So breathe her alive
Lyrics submitted by monkeyfund
Saint Anthony Lyrics as written by Buddy James Nielsen Garrett Zablocki
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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It sounds more to me like he's saying "So breathe, you're alive." I love this song haha, its gotten me super pumped for The Fire.
its definitely "so breathe you're alive"<br /> <br /> not breathe her alive...someone needs to change that<br /> <br /> it bothers me
The song seems pretty straightforward. The speaker is lost in his life and is desperately trying to find their way and will to continue living.
The title, and the lines "Saint Anthony / I hear he can help me find the things I need," reference Anthony of Padua, whom the Catholic Church attributes miracles relating to the Finding of Lost Things.
One legend, The Miracle of the Jealous Husband, tells of a woman who was murdered by her husband for adultery. After finding out the truth, the man begs Saint Anthony for forgiveness, and Anthony brings the woman back to life. Bearing this in mind, while I agree with the users above that the line sounds a lot more like "Breathe, you're alive," it would make sense (and be pretty cool) if the line was "Breathe her alive."
no comments yet!?! this is a great song! I love senses fail!!!
So does Josef Mengele
It is "Breathe, you're alive." Whoever wrote this put down incorrect lyrics. -_-