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"
I awoke on impact
Under surveillance from the camera eye
Searching high and low
The criminal mind found at the scene of the crime
Handcuffed and blind, I didn't do it
She said she loved me
I guess I never knew
But do we ever, ever really know?
She said she'd meet me on the other side
But I knew right then, I'd never find her
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
No more nightmares, I've seen them all
From the day I was born
They've haunted my every move
Every open hand's there to push and shove
No time for love it doesn't matter
She made a difference
I guess she had a way
Of making every night seem bright as day
Now I walk in shadows, never see the light
She must have lied 'cause she never said goodbye
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I need to forget her face, I see it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
No chance for contact
There's no raison d'etre
My only hope is one day I'll forget
The pain of knowing what can never be
With or without love it's all the same to me
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel, feel
The pain that you feel, feel
Under surveillance from the camera eye
Searching high and low
The criminal mind found at the scene of the crime
Handcuffed and blind, I didn't do it
She said she loved me
I guess I never knew
But do we ever, ever really know?
She said she'd meet me on the other side
But I knew right then, I'd never find her
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
No more nightmares, I've seen them all
From the day I was born
They've haunted my every move
Every open hand's there to push and shove
No time for love it doesn't matter
She made a difference
I guess she had a way
Of making every night seem bright as day
Now I walk in shadows, never see the light
She must have lied 'cause she never said goodbye
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I need to forget her face, I see it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
No chance for contact
There's no raison d'etre
My only hope is one day I'll forget
The pain of knowing what can never be
With or without love it's all the same to me
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel, feel
The pain that you feel, feel
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The female character in the story, Mary, just died. Nikky believes it was suicide I think, though the songs themselves never actually say how she was killed. But Nikky goes into a depression, I mean alot of us can relate to this type of thing. We've all been in love and lost someone, maybe not through death but just a bad break up.
No it wasn't. She was brainwashed by Dr. X to kill herself.
Along with the album story this song could be about accepting love in the negative way. It's like be aware of how rotten love between man and woman is. The man who is telling the story realised that this kind of love we have in this world is sad because there are break ups and disagreements so love never will be good for long time.
He has only hope which lies in future but while he is depressed he also don't believe in life after this one.
No comments on this song? Geoff Tate's vocals shake my soul when I hear it. Although it's part of a larger story, on it's own this song tells its own story. It's about the character being let down by everyone in his life that he cared about.
its about being hurt and becoming an apathetic
It's about trying to forget someone who's no longer in your life.
"She said she'd meet me on the other side But I knew right then, I'd never find her" the person they loved died and they know they can't cope with the loss
Damn, what a solo..
My father, mother and sister hate this song; it was always on repeat whenever I got dumped by a girlfriend. And after about hearing it 20 times per hour the got really fed up with it :D
Oh yeah, my dad hated it b/c he thought it was saying "I believe in hate". My dad was kind of dumb. He should have been glad I liked progressive rock but he even was offended by Dream Theater.
This song has totally influenced how I feel about the concept of linear, monogamous, soul-mate, romantic love in the mainstream sense.
"I'll just pretend she never was real" was what I did when my best friend of 9 years broke up with me. Because friend-breakups are just as bad as relationship-breakups, sometimes.