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"
You're building a ship with no sails, and setting out to brave the open seas
Your standing for your God by becoming something so far off, Don't you see the irony?
He gave me a train with no tracks, with no wood to build and burn for steam.
despite all I lack, if I derail and turn his back, Don't you see the irony?
If the blind could see you and the lame could meet you or the dead embrace you, if you never gave them the means to believe. And that makes no sense to me.
He gave me a voice that speaks out, but padded with a mind that's filled with of doubt.
if I'm to find the sun, I need something more then song to pull me from this cave of questioning.
Give me sand to build a home and watch all the walls fall on me.
I can't change what I am, lions always kill the lambs. Don't you see the irony? Don't you see the irony?
If the blind could see you and the lame could meet you or the dead embrace you, if you never gave them the means to believe. And that makes no sense to me.
Will I embrace you? Will you give me the means to believe? Answer me...Please.
Your standing for your God by becoming something so far off, Don't you see the irony?
He gave me a train with no tracks, with no wood to build and burn for steam.
despite all I lack, if I derail and turn his back, Don't you see the irony?
If the blind could see you and the lame could meet you or the dead embrace you, if you never gave them the means to believe. And that makes no sense to me.
He gave me a voice that speaks out, but padded with a mind that's filled with of doubt.
if I'm to find the sun, I need something more then song to pull me from this cave of questioning.
Give me sand to build a home and watch all the walls fall on me.
I can't change what I am, lions always kill the lambs. Don't you see the irony? Don't you see the irony?
If the blind could see you and the lame could meet you or the dead embrace you, if you never gave them the means to believe. And that makes no sense to me.
Will I embrace you? Will you give me the means to believe? Answer me...Please.
Lyrics submitted by flametrooper
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Judging by the interview of the screamer up online, im guessing this song is talking about a man who has been a believer for a little while, but he's having a really hard time still believing God exists. He wants an answer, and I'm sure he gets it by the end of the album..
pretty sure its 'Will the dead embrace you if you never gave them the means to believe?
Well according to Micah (screamer) like giggity stated, the whole concept of the album is about a father who believed in god, but then as in "Endseeker" god left him and he lost all faith... and his daughter, who was previously atheist, is now searching for answers and in turn, searching for belief in God. I believe this to be her along that path to believing, but she is still filled with many questions and hesitation as many christians face.
what strikes me is the "will the dead embrace you if you never gave them the means to believe?"
what i hard question for a christian to answer.. why would god put anyone on this earth, give them their brains, put them in their situation, knowing that they would not choose to follow him. it seems that everyone is only just doing what they think is right, or trying to survive, if that doesn't include jesus, then they're damned to hell for eternity? seems like harsh judgement for not taking the word of a book that has been tampered with, and was written by man thousands of years ago.
the point is god gives you the freedom to choose to believe or not its your choice. yes he knows your life from begining to end but not eavryone is gonna believe in god or there"d be no hell, august burns red rocks btw im takin my girl to there concert on the 28th.
You made a great point, thebrokenpentagram. God does give us the choice to choose whether to believe Him or not. God knows our life from beginning to end because since He created Time, He exists out of it, and He is omniscient (all-knowing). Right and wrong are absolute truths that are spelled out in the Bible which was inspired by God (1Timothy 3:16). Most people do know what is right and what is wrong, though. And like I said, God inspired the Bible. He literally told these men what to write down, that's why we call it "God's Word." We know it hasn't been tampered with because we believe what it says and it says in Proverbs 30:5 "Every word of God proves true." But it's your choice whether to believe it or not. That's the beauty of it.
Seemingly these lyrics are about Jesus Christ finally being the one who gives the means to believe. With the Ten Commandments as laws, they were no longer applied to who believes in Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and God. Reason why is because Jesus Christ died for our sins knowing what will His death become; a means to believe.