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"
Front and center...
Ten percent pulled apart vilified tolerance but only to patronize
Hang a noose like a crucifix nagles high
Leg breaking for your sheep becomes suicide
Sticking tp your guns provokes an ugly picture
Of a child gagging on those same guns
Transforming more self loathing youth
For queers to corpses in two seconds flat
You've got correction take for every transgress
Immediate approval distress
Call our your icon from its whitewashed tomb
Your perversion your blame your truth
Trigger finger prints in a pool of blood
Pray for us that our sins will come undone
Now that you've decided in all of your tirade
That we are not worthy to live
You will burn in hell for everyone you've killed
For every drop of lood that you have ever spilled
Diseased and deranged
Became a draining mass of death at your request
In your prayers in your speeches you clain our death
Ten percent pulled apart vilified tolerance but only to patronize
Hang a noose like a crucifix nagles high
Leg breaking for your sheep becomes suicide
Sticking tp your guns provokes an ugly picture
Of a child gagging on those same guns
Transforming more self loathing youth
For queers to corpses in two seconds flat
You've got correction take for every transgress
Immediate approval distress
Call our your icon from its whitewashed tomb
Your perversion your blame your truth
Trigger finger prints in a pool of blood
Pray for us that our sins will come undone
Now that you've decided in all of your tirade
That we are not worthy to live
You will burn in hell for everyone you've killed
For every drop of lood that you have ever spilled
Diseased and deranged
Became a draining mass of death at your request
In your prayers in your speeches you clain our death
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I'm not sure what this song is about exactly, I get the feeling it's about some homophobe murderer tho... especially bc of the line that goes "from queers to corpses in 2 sec. flat" and the line about burning in hell for everyone u've killed and so on... I'm really not sure... but it's definately about killing... I still have a gut feeling it's about killing gays tho.. any other ideas? I'll be checking back later to see what other ppl think...
I don't think it is about actual murder but, i think it is about how people say being homosexual is bad and you will go to hell etc.{in your prayers in your speeches you claim our death"}. This makes people that are homosexual feel so bad about who they are that they then take their own lives {"transforming more selfloathing youth, from queers to corpses in 2 seconds flat."}.
this song is actually about how the lead singer of boy sets fire feels about homosexuality, because he himself is a homosexual
he actually is not homosexual, got to love the clowns to spread false rumours, please next time you post something make sure you actually have your facts correct.
damn, this song is powerful. it seems to be about how christianity breeds homophobia. this isn't a topic that i've seen any other hardcore band (or any band, for that matter) tackle. i love boysetsfire...
I think you're all sort of right with this one but if you registered on their message board you would know for sure!
It's about how there are those companies that try to turn gays back into straight people and how it doesn't work and the kids end up killing themselves because they feel like they don't belong anywhere.
By the way, the singer's bisexual, not gay.
dont really know and dont have no time to go through the song either but id say it goes in a political direction. typical for boysetsfire
i think this song is describing the way the American Christian right regards homosexuality and what it's like growing up gay in America (transforming more self loathing youth from queers to corpses).