| Alkaline Trio – Burned Is the House Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is basically my interpretation, since I can fit this song to my last relationship. My ex of 4 years used me as a rebound and when she got bored would go look for another guy. If I brought up anything? She'd cry, tell me how terrible I am etc. | |
| Alkaline Trio – In My Stomach Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Personally I think it;s about Alcoholism, and the desperation a man has upon realization: "In this shadow I shrink and it knows I can't move, it is making me cold and it grows in my stomach like mold it keeps me just sick enough to stay home." I know from personal experience that you just want to be alone, everything around you feels so dark. After a while, you can feel in pass through it, even in the lining of your stomach, it's a terrible feeling. "Kill the lights curtains cover closed Blinds build a wall of stone and steel that we'll never come down. Let the dust colonize just like James the First There will be no blood this time in silence i'm yours Twice dead bolt the doors" You just don't want to move, you don't want to get up, dust collects, your room feels like a prison, one you don't want to leave, you CAN'T leave it. Going out just causes you pain. "I've been followed by a face marked with pain. He came close once and he just learned my name. Everyday grows taller it looks down at my heart and trough my throat could reach in and pull me apart." Your face is marked with your grief, externally you are a ruined, tired person. Inside there might be something that knows what's wrong. But every day gets longer, you drink more, it goes down your throat and helps your grief pull you apart. "He gets wise when he contacts my eyes. He can see right through to everything that blackened my veins and his sounds resonate up and down like a march through me this battle field. There's just not much left so silence the rest." Someone tries to help him and he rejects it; it's his problem, he can just drink it away, he doesn't need anyone else. The drink just numbs the pain, pushes it away. "In this shadow I shrink and it knows I can't move I can't sleep. Terrified by my own bloodshot eyes so I'll wait here and pray. I prayed that I was all wrong about prayer. I do know that this is truly tired." He becomes desperate; whether for help or death, he prays to whatever to just make it all stop. But he's been doing this for so long, he's so tired, staying in the darkness, falling so far is simply so...hard. |
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