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"
How can you just stand there and stare
The world burns alight the air
Fire of passion ignite
Open yourselves to fight
To reinforce the will
Deafening call to kill
The structure of
Archetype
Abhorrence
To collapse all I've learned
To absorb with open eyes to see this
Revelation new serenity
Destruction disharmony
To see this
I'll wait for you
To rise from this dream
I will be waiting for you
To rise from this
Gazing at twilight's end
Arms raised chant extol
If our world ended today would you suffer
Or just sit there awaiting damnation
The world burns alight the air
Fire of passion ignite
Open yourselves to fight
To reinforce the will
Deafening call to kill
The structure of
Archetype
Abhorrence
To collapse all I've learned
To absorb with open eyes to see this
Revelation new serenity
Destruction disharmony
To see this
I'll wait for you
To rise from this dream
I will be waiting for you
To rise from this
Gazing at twilight's end
Arms raised chant extol
If our world ended today would you suffer
Or just sit there awaiting damnation
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This song fucking kicks ass. The song is about how people are dying for their country while others who want their freedom just sit there waiting for a change. Hence the line, "How can you just stand there and stare?" Also, "If our world ender today, would you suffer, or just sit there awaiting damnation?"
Great fucking song, gotta love Trivium
cool song, i got the sense that it is about war, and just people being puppets, but I based this round the one line: "to reinforce the will. Deafening call to kill" the soldiers of whatever are reinforcing the will of the leader, which kinda ties in with pull harder on the strings of your martyr. Cool song.
... I've been reading peoples comments on here for ages but have only reccently signed up to the site...
Now as a guitarist and a musician i listen to a song for it's music... and not so much the lyrics... Some people might say that's stupid but you have your own opinions..
I have to say i love the guitar riff played in the chorus... really really good played on an accoustic... If you play i consider trying it on accoustic, excellent riff.
I also agree with the already posted comments, this song is definately based on way... [although if you only knew the chorus you would think different]
Love tirivium... excellent guitar... can't wait for the new album [the crusade]
the begining of this song is so fucking amaziiiiing.
Not like the rest of the song isnt... ^^
i dwnloded while going thru a bad time and it made me think of da girl i luv!
but still it rocks and is very calm wen it needs to be!
Its kinda weird. On the demo cd I hear "fire of passion ignite, open yourselves to fight". But on the Ember to Inferno version I hear: "Fire and Thunder ignite, You'll burn yourselves tonight"
Or something along those lines lol.
But then again, I can also interpret it as the stated lyrics.
Hmm... I think its just me... Matt tends to cut sounds out of words on Ember and Ascendancy...
I think that this song is about how we are destroying the enviroment and we just don't care for example, "how can you just sit there and stare, the fire burns alight the air" meaning that the atmosphere is buring up and we just kinda sit there and don't give a shit and also the line about "twighlights end" could men that the world is coming to an end and the enviroment is being destroyed, and the last 2 lines just seem to cap the fact that we don't care. I think the title refers to a requiem for a lost world.
but i also think the first two comments of this could be right as in the song is a requiem to all the people dying for a really poor reason, being war over oil
I agree with the war idea,
but either way it kicks ass.