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"
When you're taught through feelings
Destiny flying high above
All I know is that you can realize
Destiny who cares
As it turns around
And I know that it descends down on me
It's just another day
The shame is gone
Hard to believe
That I've let it go
Destiny can't replace my life
Scary shadows of my past are alive
Destiny who cares as it turns around
And I know that it descends with a smile
Just another day
The shame is gone
It's hard to believe
That I've let it go away
It's just a melody
It bleeds in me
Hard to believe
That I've let it go
When you're taught through feelings
Just another day
The shame is gone
It's hard to believe
That I've let it go away
It's just a melody
It bleeds in me
It's hard to believe
That I've let it go
Destiny flying high above
All I know is that you can realize
Destiny who cares
As it turns around
And I know that it descends down on me
It's just another day
The shame is gone
Hard to believe
That I've let it go
Destiny can't replace my life
Scary shadows of my past are alive
Destiny who cares as it turns around
And I know that it descends with a smile
Just another day
The shame is gone
It's hard to believe
That I've let it go away
It's just a melody
It bleeds in me
Hard to believe
That I've let it go
When you're taught through feelings
Just another day
The shame is gone
It's hard to believe
That I've let it go away
It's just a melody
It bleeds in me
It's hard to believe
That I've let it go
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i like this song because. when i first hear. i saw the video and i was like hell yeah. we got metal woman singer. you dude better hold ya damn pants. because woman are taking over.
Woah you guys, this is a board about what the song means to you haha. I think this song is about being overwhelmed/swamped(as the title would have you believe) by your future, like everyone wants you to be this amazing person making you feel ashamed of everything you are and that you aren't following your destiny. This song gives a big eff you to those people and says you have to make your own destiny
Have you ever passed an oppurtunity that you should have grasped when it layed before your very feet? Don't ever let it go, it could be destiny.
@acetica truth<br />
I really can't understand how people can compare Nightwish and Evanescence to Lacuna Coil. Lacuna Coil shit all over them both.
Christina Scabbia has got one of the sexiest voices I have ever heard.
Shoo with your negativity. Amy Lee, Tarja Turunen AND, yes I am comparinga tellinghristina all worked to get to where they are. Nightwish is a different category of metal, if I say so myself, than Lacuna Coil, whereas Evanescence is a bit more alternative and a softer genre of rock compared to both Lacuna Coil and Nightwish, to me at least. As for the song Swamped, where this topic should be, it seems to me to be a telling of one's own future passing by, until 'Destiny who cares/Turns around and I know it descends on me' makes it seem that it, being 'Destiny' who allowed movement forward, though it's hard to let go of the past, shameful as it may be.
I agree entirely with Spyke and Jenschnifer. In this song, people are trying to make you feel guilty for the decisions you've made, as if they would ruin your destiny. This song is about realizing other people aren't always right, so let the shame they try to pin on you go.. embrace the path you choose and live everyday.
destiny, who cares? love that lyric!
I agree entirely with Spyke and Jenschnifer. In this song, people are trying to make you feel guilty for the decisions you've made, as if they would ruin your destiny. This song is about realizing other people aren't always right, so let the shame they try to pin on you go.. embrace the path you choose and live everyday.
destiny, who cares? love that lyric!
"It's just another day the shame is gone it's hard to believe that I've let it go away" I think this song is about overcoming those bad days and moving on with your life. Maybe the main character is so surprise how he/she handled it
I'm not much of an analytical person, but I'll give this a whirl...letting a great opportunity pass you by, yet you simply move on....and/or getting belittled by your peers for your past and not living to their expectation
Cristina Scabbia is such a talented female voclaist because her classical vocal training and the band complementing her beautiful vocals...not that amy lee is bad, because she's excellent...its the rest of the band that has to tone it down
This was my first Lacuna Coil song and after hearing it i stuck a Lacuna Coil IV in my arm and haven't taken it out. Definitely one of their most powerful songs they've ever made. But this song to me is about getting over a past experience that had a real impact on you hence the
"When you're taught through feelings"
and
"It's just another day the shame is gone hard to believe"
As for
"It's just another day the shame is gone"
it's probably a more specific to the memory so its open to interpretation.
As with most of their songs these lyrics are sorta abstract and open to interpetation like Tool or Genesis. "I like it" is an example of pretty straightforward lyrics from them.... but who cares, just listen to that voice. Amy Lee.... pfft. Blatant copy cat of this band pure n simple. They could get apples legal team n make out like a bandit. meh... Guess they're not douchebags like that... But this band deserves more respect than they get IMO...