@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Our Eyes are bleeding
Courtesy of everything
That you could ever want to hide
Our veins are dry
Sometimes the truth cuts deeper
Than the sharpest knife, yeah
Losing is an awkward feeling
When you're beaten down
Anything to stop the burning
We've been running all around
We just survive
Too busy occupied with dying
To stop and consider life
So many pretty, pretty pictures
On the walls and on your fingertips, well
Let's sew the borders 'round it
Losing is an awkward feeling
When you're bleeding down
Ain't no way to stop the burning
We've been running all around ourselves
And it's the choices that we choose
In our everyday abuse
Just a short solution to a long-term problem
I stabbed myself just for the scar
To see if I could feel something
And it's the choices that we choose
'Cause we're all prophetic fools
Just a short solution to a long-term problem
I need, I need, I need, I need
Just one more thing
To be completely blinded
Shoot it up, shoot it in, bleeding
All this callous skin
In a way, I've been feeling incomplete
Losing is an awkward feeling
When you're beaten down
Anything to stop the burning
We've been running all around ourselves
And it's the choices that we choose
In our everyday abuse
Just a short solution to a long-term problem
I stabbed myself just for the scar
To see if I could feel something
And it's the choices that we choose
'Cause we're all prophetic fools
Just a short solution to a long-term problem, everyone
Innocence is way overrated now
Oh-oh-oh
Choking this sober feeling down
Well, I guess you've come over me
So define lonely
Innocence is way overrated now
Oh-oh-oh
Choking this sober feeling down
Well, I guess you've come over me
So define lonely
Innocence is way overrated now
Choking this sober feeling down
Well, I guess you've come over me
Now I know real love is for free
Courtesy of everything
That you could ever want to hide
Our veins are dry
Sometimes the truth cuts deeper
Than the sharpest knife, yeah
Losing is an awkward feeling
When you're beaten down
Anything to stop the burning
We've been running all around
We just survive
Too busy occupied with dying
To stop and consider life
So many pretty, pretty pictures
On the walls and on your fingertips, well
Let's sew the borders 'round it
Losing is an awkward feeling
When you're bleeding down
Ain't no way to stop the burning
We've been running all around ourselves
And it's the choices that we choose
In our everyday abuse
Just a short solution to a long-term problem
I stabbed myself just for the scar
To see if I could feel something
And it's the choices that we choose
'Cause we're all prophetic fools
Just a short solution to a long-term problem
I need, I need, I need, I need
Just one more thing
To be completely blinded
Shoot it up, shoot it in, bleeding
All this callous skin
In a way, I've been feeling incomplete
Losing is an awkward feeling
When you're beaten down
Anything to stop the burning
We've been running all around ourselves
And it's the choices that we choose
In our everyday abuse
Just a short solution to a long-term problem
I stabbed myself just for the scar
To see if I could feel something
And it's the choices that we choose
'Cause we're all prophetic fools
Just a short solution to a long-term problem, everyone
Innocence is way overrated now
Oh-oh-oh
Choking this sober feeling down
Well, I guess you've come over me
So define lonely
Innocence is way overrated now
Oh-oh-oh
Choking this sober feeling down
Well, I guess you've come over me
So define lonely
Innocence is way overrated now
Choking this sober feeling down
Well, I guess you've come over me
Now I know real love is for free
Lyrics submitted by MizunoPunk
Prophetic Lyrics as written by Matthew Dean Embree Christopher Tyler Tsagakis
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I think this is a really amazing song, I can't believe no one's commented on it yet. I think this is about living almost like the living dead, just emotionless, going through 'our everyday abuse' doing shit to get through it because we think things aren't going to get better, like we prophesise that things are gonna stay the same.
I just heard this song for the first time and I am blown the fuck away.
i think this song is about being depressed, and then looking at the world around you and finding everything that is wrong with it...the alienation and loneliness that come with living in the ultra-sanitized, vacuum-sealed environment of the modern world...
a lot of matt's songs are about drugs, and i feel like this one approaches them on the level of "i'm miserable in this bleak world, and i do drugs to make it more interesting and least somewhat bareable"
i've definitely met a lot of people who use drugs for reasons like that i think this song was written in a whirlwind of emotion
Did anyone else find the part of the lyrics that says "I need (x 100)" especially funny? He only says it about four times.
This song's about "the choices that we choose in our everyday abuse." We choose to ignore all of life's problems, personal and impersonal, and utilize things like drugs, self-harm, and a lot of other "short term solutions to our long term problems."
It's about the desensitization we experience living in the modern era, and how we sometimes we do things "to see if we can feel something."
Essentially, we can't respond to life in a healthful or good manner, we do more destructive things to ourselves to get over the destructive things that go on in regular life.
tree-lights, i laughed when i read the (x 100) too... haha... and i must agree with your interpretation, i was going to type one out but you pretty much nailed it. Amazing song by my fav band, i highly suggest seeing these guys live. "innocence is overrated now."
What im getting is that he's struggling with his own mortality. We are just temporary being and if that's the case and we have know idea if anything we do is leading to anything, then why try. He just feels beaten down by the realities of life and chases it down with drugs and religion and all those things that we as people do to distract ourselves from the harsh reality.
It's like everyday there are people wasting their lives doing mundane tasks just to get by and even though we all know deep down how we might get to a place where the love is free we just see obstackles and decide instead to pitter around with any distraction we can.