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"
Touch
I'll stand for nothing less
Or never stand again
These are the limits when one's buried
This body's left the soul
Could we have known?
Never would I, helped to nail down
Careful of drifting off
Now losing taste and touch
Turning a pale blue, leaning in to say
This body's left the soul
The brain needs oxygen
Can't sneak around this bait
His catacomb has got me by the chin
This body's left the soul
Could we have known?
Never would I, helped to nail down
With nothing to gain
Here's the clincher
This should be you
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
And touch
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
The earth
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
The earth
Well, could we have known?
Never would I, helped to nail down (I'll stand for nothing less)
With nothing to gain
Here's the clincher
This should be you made cold and crippled
This happened to be never changing
Holding inside (or never stand again)
The phobia viewed made cold and crippled
Ending it all
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
The earth
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
I'll stand for nothing less
Or never stand again
These are the limits when one's buried
This body's left the soul
Could we have known?
Never would I, helped to nail down
Careful of drifting off
Now losing taste and touch
Turning a pale blue, leaning in to say
This body's left the soul
The brain needs oxygen
Can't sneak around this bait
His catacomb has got me by the chin
This body's left the soul
Could we have known?
Never would I, helped to nail down
With nothing to gain
Here's the clincher
This should be you
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
And touch
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
The earth
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
The earth
Well, could we have known?
Never would I, helped to nail down (I'll stand for nothing less)
With nothing to gain
Here's the clincher
This should be you made cold and crippled
This happened to be never changing
Holding inside (or never stand again)
The phobia viewed made cold and crippled
Ending it all
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
The earth
Now saturate
Now saturate
Now saturate
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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how pinion 7, while you definitely have your opinions (Culture club not cool you say? Well... I don\'t think they are either LOL), you make some very strong and valid statements.
\" My world is my experiences. My essences is largely my emotions and feelings usually wiith the ego-centered search for identy and sense of purpose for my unexccapable existense. The motif here is loneliness when you get to the root of it all. You and I alike, are trapped in a body with consciousness but don\'t know the fuck why. Chevelle has become the soundtrack to my pain and somehow breached the gap of solitude. Its been very supernatural too me, and has been apart of my own metamorhosis.... so its just very personal.\"
That is exactly Tool to me. And I don\'t say that to make this into a Tool vs. Chevelle post. I\'m just saying, and I quote Eminem, \"cause I can relate to what you\'re saying in your songs.\"
I can relate to what they have done for you. You know what\'s ironic? How so many bands have taken pure commercialism in and have reproduced popular music over-and-over just to make a quick buck.
Well now bands are fighting back. These, many of these, are the bands that don\'t care what their name is, who they are, but simply believe in their message. I believe Chevelle is one of these. And going to a free concert of theirs just last year supports that argument.
The ironic part, as I mentioned earlier, is that now these bands tend to not pick you up with their name, or their individual players, and so all of a sudden they have become nameless like the mass market of nameless bands!
Yet their body, or their message, or music tells it all. And the \"clincher\" to that LOL is that no business can reproduce that aspect. They can come up with the right spikey hair, the right black fingernails, the right ripped shirts and pants, the right manufactured sounds in their music...
but they lack the truths in their message.
Anyway, very good post. And don\'t doubt yourself in not understanding what you love about their music. You know. You just tend to think about it, and that\'s when things get confusing. Don\'t think. Just know.