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"
Made my bed in droughts of barrel
I haven't shot this thing in years
Do you think I'll fold?
Calloused hands of detriment
From a crossbow flinch of gasping air
Do you think I'll
Solomon, don't fall apart
The words have made a perfect burden
Solomon, your hollow heart
A nomadic void of halcyon youth
Remember at the hips where we once joined
Severed by the scalpel when we were young
Do you think I'll fold?
Held under the water in a blacklist trough
Buried in the plots of your front steps
Do you think I'll fold?
Incinerate the faith that you were taught
Incinerate your crown of useless flesh
Do you think I'll
Solomon, don't fall apart
The words have made a perfect burden
Solomon, your hollow heart
A nomadic void of halcyon youth
Solomon, don't fall apart
The words have made a perfect burden
Solomon, your hollow heart
A nomadic void of halcyon youth
And if this life belonged to me
You can stop the rain from falling
Tie it on in your mind
It's your Noctourniquet
And in your file will it read
That you caved it to the night?
Tie it on in your mind
It's your Noctourniquet
Made my bed in droughts of barrel
I haven't shot this thing in years
Do you think I'll fold?
Your color seems to flower from your hissing tongue
Your livery of siblings cut from saffron cloth
Do you think I'll fold?
I'll reach out through the pavement with the shortest straw
Lavera, don't play in your mother's drawer
Do you think I'll fold?
Come hasten to the first drop of endless flasks
Heretics and peasants with a quench forboding
Do you think I'll
Solomon, don't fall apart
The words have made a perfect burden
Solomon, your hollow heart
A nomadic void of halcyon youth
Solomon, don't fall apart
The words have made a perfect burden
Solomon, your hollow heart
No matter what it takes, no matter what it takes for you
I haven't shot this thing in years
Do you think I'll fold?
Calloused hands of detriment
From a crossbow flinch of gasping air
Do you think I'll
Solomon, don't fall apart
The words have made a perfect burden
Solomon, your hollow heart
A nomadic void of halcyon youth
Remember at the hips where we once joined
Severed by the scalpel when we were young
Do you think I'll fold?
Held under the water in a blacklist trough
Buried in the plots of your front steps
Do you think I'll fold?
Incinerate the faith that you were taught
Incinerate your crown of useless flesh
Do you think I'll
Solomon, don't fall apart
The words have made a perfect burden
Solomon, your hollow heart
A nomadic void of halcyon youth
Solomon, don't fall apart
The words have made a perfect burden
Solomon, your hollow heart
A nomadic void of halcyon youth
And if this life belonged to me
You can stop the rain from falling
Tie it on in your mind
It's your Noctourniquet
And in your file will it read
That you caved it to the night?
Tie it on in your mind
It's your Noctourniquet
Made my bed in droughts of barrel
I haven't shot this thing in years
Do you think I'll fold?
Your color seems to flower from your hissing tongue
Your livery of siblings cut from saffron cloth
Do you think I'll fold?
I'll reach out through the pavement with the shortest straw
Lavera, don't play in your mother's drawer
Do you think I'll fold?
Come hasten to the first drop of endless flasks
Heretics and peasants with a quench forboding
Do you think I'll
Solomon, don't fall apart
The words have made a perfect burden
Solomon, your hollow heart
A nomadic void of halcyon youth
Solomon, don't fall apart
The words have made a perfect burden
Solomon, your hollow heart
No matter what it takes, no matter what it takes for you
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He says "and in this life you'll long to flee. Its about someone close to him (likely siamese twin sister Lavera separated at birth) her losing faith and calling it quits on life. He won't give up though on her or his own life...won't fold. Saffron, Faith and Useless Crown of Flesh bother me because I'm afraid Cedric is may be a faithful Christian which I would be very disappointed seeing as god is an invention of human psychology and religion a cash gimmick. I personally interpret the song as a man cutting lose of his former young self that 'believed' and him saying he won't fold means, he let fantasy dissuade him from reason and scrutiny, that his sister is the faithful one who has lost sanity.
Nevermind. These lyris are way off. God damn Bixler needs to write a book explaining his fucking albums 1st to last, every syllable! I knew he was saying Solomon bc the album is about that poem (wikipedia) . I live this song and many many others by them