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"
A thorn in my side
A chip on my shoulder
A lump in my throat
The size of a boulder
The chill up my spine
Can't get any colder
And you wonder why I can't smile
A knot in my gut
An ape on my back
In the heat of the moment
I'm knocked off the track
You drop the ball
I pick up the slack
And you ask me why my hair's gray
Twisting, turning
Losing all sense of yearning
Living and learning
The pressure keeps on
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
I say it's green
And then you tell me it's red
Keep your thoughts and ideas
Locked inside of your head
We've got someone
Who can think for you instead
And he sounds just like the last one
Twisting, turning
Losing all sense of yearning
Living and learning
The pressure keeps on
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul
Responsible thinkers
Throw caution to the wind
But I find myself
Speaking from within
I can't live my life
Walking on eggshells
To stay on your good side
Using your words
Controlling my life
Can't you see it's my words
That gives you your life
So I hurt your feelings
Well I'm really sorry
But I don't give a shit, no
Twisting, turning
Losing all sense of yearning
Living and learning
The pressure keeps on
Burning my soul (burning my soul) [Repeat: x7]
A chip on my shoulder
A lump in my throat
The size of a boulder
The chill up my spine
Can't get any colder
And you wonder why I can't smile
A knot in my gut
An ape on my back
In the heat of the moment
I'm knocked off the track
You drop the ball
I pick up the slack
And you ask me why my hair's gray
Twisting, turning
Losing all sense of yearning
Living and learning
The pressure keeps on
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
I say it's green
And then you tell me it's red
Keep your thoughts and ideas
Locked inside of your head
We've got someone
Who can think for you instead
And he sounds just like the last one
Twisting, turning
Losing all sense of yearning
Living and learning
The pressure keeps on
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul (burning my soul)
Burning my soul
Responsible thinkers
Throw caution to the wind
But I find myself
Speaking from within
I can't live my life
Walking on eggshells
To stay on your good side
Using your words
Controlling my life
Can't you see it's my words
That gives you your life
So I hurt your feelings
Well I'm really sorry
But I don't give a shit, no
Twisting, turning
Losing all sense of yearning
Living and learning
The pressure keeps on
Burning my soul (burning my soul) [Repeat: x7]
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The music in this song is so badass. I hadn't really listened to Falling into Infinity much, but I got the Live in Tokyo/5 Years in a LIVEtime dvd and always was like, "wth, I've never heard this song before o_O" and like half the other stuff on the 5 Years part XD, as well as The Silent Man even though I listened to Awake a lot at that time, just probably not that song. My whole Dream Theater thing happened back in late July this year and I had downloaded all of their albums already (almost) and was obsessed with I&W (I still am, it's my favorite still so far.), now I'm just getting around to finally letting everything sink in because I've also started with other bands, too (Opeth, dredg, Modest Mouse, ELP, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Porcupine Tree, The Cure and some other stuff) Recently I pretty much got everything I could want right now so I'm gonna stop buying music all the time and just let everything sink in whenever it feels like it, hehe. about the song, well, I think it is kind of obvious o.o
Well, that's my life story =) o.O
runs off to go finish listening to Falling into Infinity all the way through for the first time
Oh yeah, I let my little step brother have my burned copy of Once in a LIVEtime and a bunch of other stuff I actually bought now. He got through the first few tracks on the first disc and his reaction was pretty much, " DREAM THEATER. HOLY SHIT. OMGPLKJDFJ|RAWR|AKJS/spaz drool"
o___O
It's okay, just smile and nod your head. >_>
Yeah, both the music and lyrics are badass and great!<br /> It just gives you a boost. This is my favorite part:<br /> <br /> "So I hurt your feelings<br /> Well I'm really sorry<br /> But I don't give a shit, no"<br /> <br /> especially when it is really:<br /> <br /> "So I hurt your feelings<br /> Well I'm really sorry<br /> But I don't give a shit, nooooooooooo...!!"