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"
Knock the ice up off my bed
Cut back your hand cut back
So I can bleed a little smile
Thats all thats left when heaven splits in two
On a bridge, phantom love, kiss and shove
Have I slept it off, I've been awake for too long
All this time, there's a hole in my ceiling
Where dreams escape, right above my bed take a holiday
Well I'm sick of feeling this way (sick of feeling this way)
So just cut off the lights a while
And kiss me like you wanted to
Then i'll sing in style like a blackheart valentine pill
I need it, but just keep it
I have slept it off, I've been awake for too long
All I needed, all I needed, cause I'm not sleeping anymore
And I will breathe, my hands will shake
Please blow a kiss, for heavens sake
A martyrs smile, plastic and fake
I'm classic and late
Plastic and fake
Cut back your hand cut back
So I can bleed a little smile
Thats all thats left when heaven splits in two
On a bridge, phantom love, kiss and shove
Have I slept it off, I've been awake for too long
All this time, there's a hole in my ceiling
Where dreams escape, right above my bed take a holiday
Well I'm sick of feeling this way (sick of feeling this way)
So just cut off the lights a while
And kiss me like you wanted to
Then i'll sing in style like a blackheart valentine pill
I need it, but just keep it
I have slept it off, I've been awake for too long
All I needed, all I needed, cause I'm not sleeping anymore
And I will breathe, my hands will shake
Please blow a kiss, for heavens sake
A martyrs smile, plastic and fake
I'm classic and late
Plastic and fake
Lyrics submitted by DaysofThePhoenix2
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well. this is one of my favorite songs. and i cant find anything about this band. obviously it isnt the Prog rock band its emo by the same name. anyway, i couldnt hear alot of the things in this song. so if they arent right dont spazz, suggest the right ones and i'll gladly change it, and if you know anywhere that i may find anything about them let me know. thanks
northstar is amazing x3598275252.325252
Hey dude there's only one bit missing from this song I think, it might be cos I have a different version of the song or something but just after 'I have slept it off, I've been awake for too long.' should be
Then it goes into the 'And I will breathe...' part
Northstar are soooo awesome
this song is amazing. and maybe it's just me but there's some references to suicide...? Anyways. A great song by a great band. We gotta get the rest of their stuff up here!!!
it's about a sleeping pill? maybe he wants to take it to end his period of being awake, cause hes so fed up with this girl....also seems like since he's been awake for so long that everything is 'plasitic and fake' to him. favorite part must be... "On a bridge, phantom love, kiss and shove" haha he loves her then shoves her or vice versa. good concept.
it's about a sleeping pill? maybe he wants to take it to end his period of being awake, cause hes so fed up with this girl....also seems like since he's been awake for so long that everything is 'plasitic and fake' to him. favorite part must be... "On a bridge, phantom love, kiss and shove" haha he loves her then shoves her or vice versa. good concept.
hey guys....northstar is an ammazzing band, and a greeeat site is northstaronline.cjb.net .....its endorsed by the band and has the whole album lyrics right from nick....check it out and join the forum
hey guys....northstar is an ammazzing band, and a greeeat site is northstaronline.cjb.net .....its endorsed by the band and has the whole album lyrics right from nick....check it out and join the forum
ahhh, northstar is amazing. simply amazing. but if I'm not mistaken the name of this song is just "black heart valentine" (minus the pill).
ahhhhh i love northstar. all their songs are just amazing with great lyrics :)