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"
I'm an angel with broken wings,
Who's poisoning the night
With love, from me to you
I'm having an episode,
Do you want a small bit part?
I think you might, I hope you do
Oh baby go so slowly
Nowhere, nothing, quiet softly
The world falls apart, in just seven days
It sinks to the bottom, in oceans of rain
The cure is so clear, the blood is astray
And everyone dies, except for the rain
...and I think that I'm starting to scare myself
I hate myself, and I want you to die
So insincere, swallowing ice
And it all will render useless
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Time swept by in a hungry nation
And everybody's dancing to get it off their chests
And everybody dies, but no one gets to rest
Go slow for the angels will fall
For the bitterness of this orgy god
Half lives with secular law
Suspended in a drug like state of bliss
Who's poisoning the night
With love, from me to you
I'm having an episode,
Do you want a small bit part?
I think you might, I hope you do
Oh baby go so slowly
Nowhere, nothing, quiet softly
The world falls apart, in just seven days
It sinks to the bottom, in oceans of rain
The cure is so clear, the blood is astray
And everyone dies, except for the rain
...and I think that I'm starting to scare myself
I hate myself, and I want you to die
So insincere, swallowing ice
And it all will render useless
Welcome to enhancement by affiliation
Time swept by in a hungry nation
And everybody's dancing to get it off their chests
And everybody dies, but no one gets to rest
Go slow for the angels will fall
For the bitterness of this orgy god
Half lives with secular law
Suspended in a drug like state of bliss
Lyrics submitted by tommyhaych
Drug Like Lyrics as written by Mark Thomas Kluepfel
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This song appears to be based on the quote from Karl Marx where he said "Religion is the opiate for the masses". Pretty obvious I think, Action Action seem to be very anti-religion from reading some of their other lyrics too.
"i hate myself, and i want you to die" - thats great!! haha!
great song. okay... not to be shallow, but the members of this band are hot.
i love the sound of this song oh so much. it seriously gets stuck in my head way too much.
i love the sound of this song oh so much. it seriously gets stuck in my head way too much.
I'm an angel with broken wings who's poisoning the night with love.... Awesome... but what the hell? someone explain please..
Is it strange that this reminds me of zombie movies?
the world falls apart, in just seven days it sinks to the bottom, in oceans of rain the cure is so clear, the blood is astray and everyone dies, except for the rain ...and i think that i'm starting to scare myself
Just that part though. :D Everybody dies and the blood is astray. Makes me think of a world where everything has died and everything is silent except for the falling rain. Creepy zombie movie scene. O_o Okay, I'll stop now.
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this song is great. really.
does the line "everybody's dancing to get it off their chests" come from another song by another artist/group? Or is there a similar line in another song? It sounds so familiar to me but I can't put my finger on where else I've heard it. Maybe I'm making it up.....