Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
"I'll try," she said as he walked away
"Try not to lose you"
Two vibrant hearts could change
Nothing tears the being more than deception, unmasked fear
"I'll be here waiting tested and secure"
Nothing hurts my world
Just affects the ones around me
When sin's deep in my blood
You'll be the one to fall
"I wish I could be the one
The one who won't care at all
But being the one on the stand
I know the way to go, no one's guiding me
When time soaked with blood turns its back
I know it's hard to fall
Confided in me was your heart
I know it's hurting you, but it's killing me"
Nothing will last in this life
Our time is spent constructing
Now you're perfecting a world, meant to sin
Constrict your hands around me
Squeeze till I cannot breathe
This air tastes dead inside me
Contribute to our own plague
Break all your promises
Tear down this steadfast wall
Restraints are useless here
Tasting salvation's near
Nothing hurts my world
Just affects the ones around me
When sin's deep in my blood
You'll be the one to fall
"I wish I could be the one
The one who won't care at all
But being the one on the stand
I know the way to go, no one's guiding me
When time soaked with blood turns its back
I know it's hard to fall
Confided in me was your heart
I know it's hurting you, but it's killing me"
"Try not to lose you"
Two vibrant hearts could change
Nothing tears the being more than deception, unmasked fear
"I'll be here waiting tested and secure"
Nothing hurts my world
Just affects the ones around me
When sin's deep in my blood
You'll be the one to fall
"I wish I could be the one
The one who won't care at all
But being the one on the stand
I know the way to go, no one's guiding me
When time soaked with blood turns its back
I know it's hard to fall
Confided in me was your heart
I know it's hurting you, but it's killing me"
Nothing will last in this life
Our time is spent constructing
Now you're perfecting a world, meant to sin
Constrict your hands around me
Squeeze till I cannot breathe
This air tastes dead inside me
Contribute to our own plague
Break all your promises
Tear down this steadfast wall
Restraints are useless here
Tasting salvation's near
Nothing hurts my world
Just affects the ones around me
When sin's deep in my blood
You'll be the one to fall
"I wish I could be the one
The one who won't care at all
But being the one on the stand
I know the way to go, no one's guiding me
When time soaked with blood turns its back
I know it's hard to fall
Confided in me was your heart
I know it's hurting you, but it's killing me"
Lyrics submitted by thienosaurus, edited by AdamArtz
Unholy Confessions Lyrics as written by Jr. Brian Haner
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Think this is a bit more complex, but mostly the other answers have the general dea.
I think that this is about the things that mental illness does to people and makes people do.
It's clear that the "she" in this story has committed adultery from the first stanza.
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I think this song is mostly about the burden of forgiveness that adulterous behaviour of emotionally unstable people imposes on the primary victims (ie the one who has been deceived), and how the burden of forgiveness, feelings of pain and fatalistic emotional depletion, ie "the fall", which causes immense emotional damage is placed on the deceived. This is embodied by the first half of the third stanza.
The third stanza concludes in the deceived giving in to "the fall", and forgiving the deceiver, embodied by "I know the way to go, no one's guiding me. When time soaked with blood turns its back, I know it's hard to fall." This is evidence of the codependency that often exists in emotional relationships between people that have personality disorders. It ends with the observation that the deceivers behaviour hurts themselves, in terms of the cutting off of their supply of emotional energy, but progressively results in the emotional "killing" of the host, leading to depression, loss of will to live etc.
The last stanza basically points out the logical fact that the deceiver is destroying the world for both parties, and ultimately they don't need to care about it because they will be absolved in salvation (I think this is a sarcastic line).
That's my interpretation. A bit too . much analytical psychology, but I think a lot of their songs deal with these kinds of mental issues.