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"
Behind the eyes of my compassion lies a suffering soul
And in my blood a bitter darkness slowly taking it's toll
I feel the death of our connection and the fading of light
Between the shards of sudden panic from choking on my life
I see the scars of your addiction and the feeling you hide
A blackened heart from all the hatred you will never rewind
Within the depths of your depression hear you pleading for help
Your just a shell of vacant ruin, a portrait of myself.
I can't breathe alone
You can guide me home.
I am the face of your affliction.
Feeding new life through the cracks in your skull.
Beneath the skin of your aggression is a thickening fear
A swelling plague from every devastating voice that you hear
You feel the throes of contradiction in the world that you left
Another day in your delusion, the never-ending death.
I can't breathe alone
You can guide me home
I can feel you here
You can draw me near
I am the face of your affliction.
Feeding new life through the cracks in your skull.
I am the pain of your conviction
Stabbing you right through the back of your soul.
This is life, this is love
I am the face of your affliction.
Feeding new life through the cracks in your skull.
I am the pain of your conviction
Stabbing you right through the back of your soul.
I can feel you here
You can draw me near.
And in my blood a bitter darkness slowly taking it's toll
I feel the death of our connection and the fading of light
Between the shards of sudden panic from choking on my life
I see the scars of your addiction and the feeling you hide
A blackened heart from all the hatred you will never rewind
Within the depths of your depression hear you pleading for help
Your just a shell of vacant ruin, a portrait of myself.
I can't breathe alone
You can guide me home.
I am the face of your affliction.
Feeding new life through the cracks in your skull.
Beneath the skin of your aggression is a thickening fear
A swelling plague from every devastating voice that you hear
You feel the throes of contradiction in the world that you left
Another day in your delusion, the never-ending death.
I can't breathe alone
You can guide me home
I can feel you here
You can draw me near
I am the face of your affliction.
Feeding new life through the cracks in your skull.
I am the pain of your conviction
Stabbing you right through the back of your soul.
This is life, this is love
I am the face of your affliction.
Feeding new life through the cracks in your skull.
I am the pain of your conviction
Stabbing you right through the back of your soul.
I can feel you here
You can draw me near.
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Annihilate the Corrupt Lyrics as written by Ryan Clark Don Clark
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wow i can't beleive no one commented on this song. it's a good one.love the chorus
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I agree with Velrex on this.
"I am the face of your afflication" Feeding new life through the cracks in your skull"
it says it right there.
Ryan says this: Annihilate The Corrupt is about extinguishing the corrupt within your life. In the song I parallel my life with the listener’s, explaining that I go through the same feelings and struggles that many of them might face. It’s about conviction. The “stab through the back of your soul” describes how painful that conviction can sometimes be. Though the song is directed outwards to the listener, it’s knowing what’s inside myself that makes it possible for me to address conviction. And even though conviction can be painful, I explain that repentance will feed you new life. “I can't breathe alone, You can guide me home, I can feel you here, You can draw me near” explains the giving up of these things to God.
knocloo27, that's a very valid evaluation. I'd personally interpret through the listener's ears as corrupting one's self and seeking redemption. The first paragraph "Behind the eyes of my compassion lies a suffering soul And in my blood a bitter darkness slowly taking it's toll I feel the death of our connection and the fading of light Between the shards of sudden panic from choking on my life" I see that the person being described is being torn between two mirrors of themself, his good and evil. Now their mirrors are shattered, and it's time to choose which mirror needs to be reconstructed. People can choose to annihilate the corruption, but they can still choose to create it.