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"
Unrest in the streets
Unrest in your mind
Unrest in the constellations
We were always the restless kind
Unrest this restless heart
With stellar circuitry
There are no accidents
There are no friendly fires
So pull out all the wires
Unrest this restless heart
With stellar circuitry
The nights are getting longer
The days are getting colder
Remember when you told her
The time for growing older
Was not tonight or ever
So hush the signifier
And pull out all the wires
Pull out all the wires
Pull out all the wires
Disobey the future whispers only
Harm the ones
Who listen
We can stop the oxidation
Disobey the future whispers
Only harm the ones who listen
We can stop the oxidation
One task to remove the lines
Another to erase the signs
So many ways to kill the time
We have to kill the time
And pull out all the wires
Pull out all the wires
Pull out all the wires
Electric currents plan to
Outsmart mother nature
Disobey the future whispers only
Harm the ones
Who listen
We can stop the oxidation
Disobey the future whispers
Only harm the ones who listen
We can stop the oxidation
Unrest in your mind
Unrest in the constellations
We were always the restless kind
Unrest this restless heart
With stellar circuitry
There are no accidents
There are no friendly fires
So pull out all the wires
Unrest this restless heart
With stellar circuitry
The nights are getting longer
The days are getting colder
Remember when you told her
The time for growing older
Was not tonight or ever
So hush the signifier
And pull out all the wires
Pull out all the wires
Pull out all the wires
Disobey the future whispers only
Harm the ones
Who listen
We can stop the oxidation
Disobey the future whispers
Only harm the ones who listen
We can stop the oxidation
One task to remove the lines
Another to erase the signs
So many ways to kill the time
We have to kill the time
And pull out all the wires
Pull out all the wires
Pull out all the wires
Electric currents plan to
Outsmart mother nature
Disobey the future whispers only
Harm the ones
Who listen
We can stop the oxidation
Disobey the future whispers
Only harm the ones who listen
We can stop the oxidation
Lyrics submitted by hkcu
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When I go out in public I'm always watching people and their iphones and pads, the way they barely notice each other, glued to the gizmos, bonding to them like infants to the tit because we're all so nurture deprived & autistic. Makes me sad and angry, feel like i can see whats going on but I'm slow, i keep up with the super fast pace around me barely at all. 'Pull out all the wires' makes me think of like borg drones tearing off their cybernetic implants in a fit of righteous rage.... i wanna go and graffiti up a public wall with some of these lyrics now, leave another message haha
Kill the time by killing time, live the Now (End of time?), future whispers only hurt those who listen, stop over thinking (electric currents) = categorizing labels lines and signs? Signifiers equal live wires?<br /> <br /> trauma=over thinking= attempts to control = entire earth history linear loop<br /> <br /> ...srry for overthinking :/
oh thaks ) i could do with you explaining more of the lines of these lyrics in the same way!<br /> <br /> what does "remember when you told her" mean, for example? who "her"?
dunno, i was having a crazy moment when i wrote most of this lol
lol<br /> still i found them helpful, your comments, i mean.<br /> but what about the line " Unrest this restless heart" then? and is it connected to the next line " With stellar circuitry" in any way? can you break down this to me?
can anyone share their thoughts on this song and help me understand its meaning as i'm a non english speaker?
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