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"
Across the floor, in the hand of where we drove the drill
A cautious ear to the mouth of your confession
Think of all the things we put him through
In the face of his god, would he tell the truth?
Still, recorded were the words that dribbled out his kiss
When eyes go blind in this man of what could once become
Sever the limbs off his torso, in sleep
And burn what remains so the world may now see
No longer will we wait for your answers
Back to the hell where you've come from
Think of all the times you've once had
Write them in a letter that says goodbye
You'll listen to reason
While you're face down in the dirt
You'll stomach the hurt
And break for him here just how much he's worth
Slowly discarded were the remains of his lonely youth
Among the alley where the dwellers scare to notice
Picture a young boy in pieces and streets with leveled malfunctions
No name to be called redeemer
We'll fix him, restore him
With the love is no other
Think of all the things you did before
Write them in a letter that says reborn
You'll listen to reason
While you're face down in the dirt
You'll stomach the hurt
And break for him here just how much he's worth
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
Dear my friends, in the time we've spent
Forever after beyond this, when will our nightmare ever end, end, end?
Dear my friends, in the time we've spent
Forever after beyond this when will our nightmare ever end, end, end?
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
A cautious ear to the mouth of your confession
Think of all the things we put him through
In the face of his god, would he tell the truth?
Still, recorded were the words that dribbled out his kiss
When eyes go blind in this man of what could once become
Sever the limbs off his torso, in sleep
And burn what remains so the world may now see
No longer will we wait for your answers
Back to the hell where you've come from
Think of all the times you've once had
Write them in a letter that says goodbye
You'll listen to reason
While you're face down in the dirt
You'll stomach the hurt
And break for him here just how much he's worth
Slowly discarded were the remains of his lonely youth
Among the alley where the dwellers scare to notice
Picture a young boy in pieces and streets with leveled malfunctions
No name to be called redeemer
We'll fix him, restore him
With the love is no other
Think of all the things you did before
Write them in a letter that says reborn
You'll listen to reason
While you're face down in the dirt
You'll stomach the hurt
And break for him here just how much he's worth
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
Following you across the interstate walking away
I'll fire on
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
On the wrong way out
On the causeway to neverwhere
Dear my friends, in the time we've spent
Forever after beyond this, when will our nightmare ever end, end, end?
Dear my friends, in the time we've spent
Forever after beyond this when will our nightmare ever end, end, end?
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops
Forever you will, forever you will learn
Lyrics submitted by fallacies, edited by Planets89, Mellow_Harsher, samuel1024
Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow) Lyrics as written by Joshua Eppard Claudio Sanchez
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The next part starting with "slowly discarded" detail how Mayo tosses Sizer's remains in an alleyway. Claudio, Coheed and Cambria's son, who has been a recluse the past decade, stumbles upon his remains while arguing with Ambellina. He recognizes it as an IRO-bot, something Claudio is as well. He "fixes and restores" him.
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Your interpretation to the last part is pretty close but Sizer wasn't really "begging" per say for Mayo to stop. It was more like "Pffft, I wish you would". By that point he didn't really have anything left to loose and death would be nothing but a relief.
Not necessarily Adisk. Could be pulling the trigger and killing the person who is making things a nightmare.
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what is shabuti i heard in in their song devil in jersey city
Shabutie is Claudio's first band. It doesn't really mean anything in the concept of the story, he just threw it in for laughs I guess.
adisk- Shabutie is a band Claudio used to be in and eventually was changed into Coheed and Cambria I think with a few member changes.
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xAsiDKx, Shabutie was the name of Coheed and Cambria before they were... well, Coheed and Cambria. And, Alaceo's ideas do make sense to me... the part about " We'll fix him restore him " could be talking about when the monstar was injected into Coheed when he was young, in order to save his life. Then the end also makes sense. The " Pull the trigger and the nightmare stops, being killing Coheed to end the nightmare.
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