Crawl Back In

I love these lyrics.... im not exactly sure what they mean, but they feel so emotional, just like the song.

I believe almost every Neurosis song has to do with specific aspects of transcendence and the struggles that come with it. The narrator seems to be talking to another half of himself, like an older way of thinking. Like a piece of the personality left then came back and doesn't fit with the rest of the self anymore.

The final verse is that piece of the self telling rest of himself to go to the same place it went and it can integrate the new way of thinking. I don't know, that's just the I think about it. I don't know, the whole Sun that Never Sets album feels like one of those mushroom trips that completely changes your way of thinking.

Is it Scott or Steve singing this song? I'm pretty sure it's Scott, but you can never be too sure, they sound so much alike.

maybe they're both singing but i guess it's Scott at least this part he is singing: "We laid so long, eternal night, In my heart it never left. I'll stand here, you go on, When you see me I'll be gone. Every road brings us on the past is never forgiven It is atoned" that's for sure clearly hearable by the style of singing, unmistakable.

Anyway a masterpiece of a Song by the best Band of them all!

The song is about changing personality through atonement. "I am waiting til you return your suffering " - persona is waiting for the punishment. "When you come back, I won't know you " - signifies that after change is complete it's hard to make all the other parts of your personality to reform according to the change.

"And my heart has turned to stone I crawled back in, I am hungry I made my traps are set in space" Changing is hard and sometimes on the way you return to your old fears and needs or new ones arise.

ytriffy has got it. The narrator is looking upon someone who must go through a transformative process ("return your suffering") in order to become atoned for past acts. It sounds from the personal attributes given by the narrator ("we laid so long, eternal night" & "We won't fit right like it was before"), it seems to have been a personal betrayal upon the narrator by the individual the narrator is referring to.

I think that this song is an attempt towards attonement itself. I think it means an apology, a very painful one, to people who you have hurt throughout your life, that you have hurt and never had the chance or were too proud to apologise, and now you're telling them that you regret and if you could take it back you would, but it's too late, for time moves forward perpetually.