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"
Out in the everglades
Sleeping in with the poor is a fortune for the brave
I can easily say that we will never change
But be implacable and never lose your flames
Wouldn't you say that the world has spit on you enough
Unanswered prayers, sleeping under streetlights
And I don't understand the danger of talking them up
Every night, you salvage every skyline
Only enough so that you might have the chance to feel fine
Swear to God, I believe we've had enough trying to save the world
Did you hear me, we have had enough
This is how we close the show, so sit back and listen, 'cause it's not over yet
You think you know us, well you don't know shit
Sleeping in with the poor is a fortune for the brave
I can easily say that we will never change
But be implacable and never lose your flames
Wouldn't you say that the world has spit on you enough
Unanswered prayers, sleeping under streetlights
And I don't understand the danger of talking them up
Every night, you salvage every skyline
Only enough so that you might have the chance to feel fine
Swear to God, I believe we've had enough trying to save the world
Did you hear me, we have had enough
This is how we close the show, so sit back and listen, 'cause it's not over yet
You think you know us, well you don't know shit
Lyrics submitted by YourCullingSong
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no one has commented on this? this song is the best on the album in my opinion. we need a Tyler Carter/Jcraig mixtape.
definately! this song is awesome. they play off each other well.
I promise you it's FLAMES. No doubt about it.
This'll prove it.. and if you still don't trust me go watch the video on youtube.
coryfuckingferris.tumblr.com/post/8206849549/never-lose-your-flame-s
"Sleeping in with the poor is a fortune for the brave" anyone have any idea what that line means? that line has always stuck with me but i'm still trying to decipher what exactly he's saying with it
If you’re brave enough to try and change things, then you will end up with absolutely nothing, so much that even sleeping in a tiny home with the poor will seem like a fortune to you.
This song is a great closure to the album. So the whole album basically sums to the idea that you shouldn't be dragged down by your family/your home/the things you're given in youth. I imagine it as a more broad idea than the lyrics in the album explicitly say. The album uses a theme of a kid splitting off from his father. Basically his father makes him feel like a monster inside. So he leaves, It's a challenge but he does it.
So this song is an afterward situation. He's finally free. "Sleeping in with the poor is a fortune for the brave" is just saying the protagonist has a hole in his life where his father/family was, but he's doing it to pursue his dreams and eventually live a better life. In a more broad context, you've got to make sacrifices to get to your end goal.
"Every night, Salvage every skyline, only enough so that you might have the chance to feel fine" adds to this. Every day, you have to acknowledge this fight is for a greater cause.
But be implacable and never lose your PLACE
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Nah it is FLAMES. I got the CD and didn't read the booklet on my first run through it but the second time I did and I realized that it said FLAMES not PLACE like I thought it had.<br />