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"
We're falling
Throughout eternity
The clock is ticking
And you're still counting sheep
You're still half asleep
There's no one coming (there's no one coming)
And there's no way out (and there's no way out)
I've been falling (well I've been falling)
And it's so far down
Shrouded
Beneath the veil of tragedy
When death comes calling
Who will you believe?
Tell me who will you believe?
When it's down to you and me
Will you still stay on your knees?
(When it's down to you and me)
There's no one coming (there's no one coming)
And there's no way out (and there's no way out)
I've been falling (well I've been falling)
And it's so far down (and it's so far down)
There's no one coming (there's no one coming)
And there's no way out
There's no way out (way out)
Pushing me down, breaking me down
There's always something
Pushing me down, breaking me down
Pushing me down, breaking me down
There's always something
Pushing me down, breaking me down
Pushing me down, breaking me down
There's always something
Pushing me down, breaking me down
Pushing you down, breaking you down
There's always something
Pushing you back, pushing you back
I'm pushing you back, I'm pushing you back
I'm pushing you back, I'm pushing you back
I'm pushing you back, I'm pushing you back
There's no one coming
And there's no way out
Well I've been falling
And it's a long way down
Down
Throughout eternity
The clock is ticking
And you're still counting sheep
You're still half asleep
There's no one coming (there's no one coming)
And there's no way out (and there's no way out)
I've been falling (well I've been falling)
And it's so far down
Shrouded
Beneath the veil of tragedy
When death comes calling
Who will you believe?
Tell me who will you believe?
When it's down to you and me
Will you still stay on your knees?
(When it's down to you and me)
There's no one coming (there's no one coming)
And there's no way out (and there's no way out)
I've been falling (well I've been falling)
And it's so far down (and it's so far down)
There's no one coming (there's no one coming)
And there's no way out
There's no way out (way out)
Pushing me down, breaking me down
There's always something
Pushing me down, breaking me down
Pushing me down, breaking me down
There's always something
Pushing me down, breaking me down
Pushing me down, breaking me down
There's always something
Pushing me down, breaking me down
Pushing you down, breaking you down
There's always something
Pushing you back, pushing you back
I'm pushing you back, I'm pushing you back
I'm pushing you back, I'm pushing you back
I'm pushing you back, I'm pushing you back
There's no one coming
And there's no way out
Well I've been falling
And it's a long way down
Down
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This is a tight song, it's about how we go through life constantly facing some sort of damn problem and your always get fucked over by someone or something or in some way, it's basicly about the fucked up reality of all the shit we go through in life. -Sad but True- Good song though
My favorit song from Motograter.. It starts out more soft and ends up in madness .. I really enjoy that :D
I feel this is a song about how hopeless and depraved you can feel when you've accepted that that there may not be a god and that life in this world and the pain we experience might be completely meaningless. It can feel like, "Were falling throughout eternity."
When you watch everyone else around you wasting time praising and worshiping an imaginary god you might say, "The clock is ticking, and you're still counting sheep; You're still half asleep."
"There's no one coming, and there's no way out."--There is no god coming to redeem and save us.
"I've been falling, and it's so far down."--A nihilistic reference to the feelings of hopelessness and depravity.
When life feels meaningless, it can feel like, "There's always something pushing me down, breaking me down," which circles around and contributes more to the feelings of hopelessness and depravity.
However, once a nihilist realizes that the only meaningful goal in life is the fight for survival, he might say, "I'm pushing you back."