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"
Hey soilmates, we're facing the end
We're down low no use to pretend
A bitter message from heaven sent
It says we're asleep at the wheel again
Let's say we're stuck in an illusion
Let's say we're out of control
Possessed by a lethal redeemer
Forcing us to play a neurotic role
Oh, won't you take this thing out of me
It never leaves me alone
Fight the demons and devastate
This mental battlezone
[Chorus]
Bring it back, bring it home
Enough is enough, I'm alone
Everything's set all ready to go away
Bring it back, bring it home
To the place I used to know
There comes a time
When this nighmare will turn to hate
Beware what you intend to say
Those words will always make you pay
Repress what's before your eyes
Gather the spirits and hypnotize
Let's say we're stuck in an illusion
Let's say we're out of control
Possessed by a lethal redeemer
Forcing us to play a neurotic role
Oh, won't you take this thing out of me
It never leaves me alone
Fight the demons and devastate
This mental battlezone
I wait for this to overcome
What's inside it needs to be done
This vital plague has brought my pain
And endless pain...
[Chorus: x3]
Oh, won't you take this thing out of me
It never leaves me alone
Fight the demons and devastate
This mental battlezone
I wait for this to overcome
What's inside it needs to be done
This vital plague has brought my pain
And endless pain...
We're down low no use to pretend
A bitter message from heaven sent
It says we're asleep at the wheel again
Let's say we're stuck in an illusion
Let's say we're out of control
Possessed by a lethal redeemer
Forcing us to play a neurotic role
Oh, won't you take this thing out of me
It never leaves me alone
Fight the demons and devastate
This mental battlezone
[Chorus]
Bring it back, bring it home
Enough is enough, I'm alone
Everything's set all ready to go away
Bring it back, bring it home
To the place I used to know
There comes a time
When this nighmare will turn to hate
Beware what you intend to say
Those words will always make you pay
Repress what's before your eyes
Gather the spirits and hypnotize
Let's say we're stuck in an illusion
Let's say we're out of control
Possessed by a lethal redeemer
Forcing us to play a neurotic role
Oh, won't you take this thing out of me
It never leaves me alone
Fight the demons and devastate
This mental battlezone
I wait for this to overcome
What's inside it needs to be done
This vital plague has brought my pain
And endless pain...
[Chorus: x3]
Oh, won't you take this thing out of me
It never leaves me alone
Fight the demons and devastate
This mental battlezone
I wait for this to overcome
What's inside it needs to be done
This vital plague has brought my pain
And endless pain...
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this song seems to be about something a person can't scrap from their mind. a certain idea or belief that won't leave them and ultimatly, is leading to it taking grave effects on their well-being and over all life. Something like a girlfriend's graphic past or something they were taugh as a child....I don't know, great fucking song though : ) Soilwork is the shit.
yeah he tells of something that forces us to play a reurotic role, and he wants to escape that, to be left alone.
"Bring it back, bring it home Enough is enough, I'm alone Everything's set all ready to go away ... There comes a time when this nighmare will turn to hate"
he wants to escape, before the nightmare that life is turn to hate inside him... maybe he's talking about suicide.
Quiet chorus, but very cool song. Soilwork rock!
Great song. catchy as hell! to quote my unknowing friend above, "Soilwork rock!" hahaha Great song...
I was listening to The Bringer while going to the university, trying to interpretate it differently.
The lyric/poetic subject (lyric self) was "enlightened" about something: "A bitter message from heaven sent It says we're asleep at the wheel again"
Then it started being tormented and gives us an advice: "Repress what's before your eyes, gather the spirits and hypnotize", probably because it got into problems for saying something that shouldn't be said ("Those words will always make you pay").
Also about "Repress what's before your eyes", it seems the lyric self saw something that made it neurotic or jealous ("Forcing us to play a neurotic role") and now tries to erase those images: "Oh, won't you take this thing out of me It never leaves me alone"
And that's how I interpreted this song, folks.
Is it just me or someone else is listening "Everything sets our way to go away"?