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"
The unsettled mind is at times an ally
Leaving the senses to fend for themselves
The senses collect undeniable data
Of beta-carotene and thetawaves
The unsettled mind is at times an ally
Leaving the senses to fend for themselves
Then the senses wanted the sky
All rise
Eyes bow
Time feels like a midnight ride
Finality waits outside
Weeping in perplexity's arms
Caressing our smiles inside
The national debt is at times an ally
Leaving the people to fend for themselves
The people collect undeniable data
'Bout high pulse weapons and microwaves
The national debt is at times an ally
Leaving the people to fend for themselves
Then the people found out the lie
All rise
Eyes bow
Now our eyes
Have been found
Time feels like a midnight ride
Finality waits outside
Weeping in perplexity's arms
Caressing our smiles inside
Wanting to get you high
Wanting to touch the sky
All rise
Eyes bow
Now our eyes
Have been found
Time feels like a midnight ride
Finality waits outside
Weeping in perplexity's arms
Caressing our smiles in-
Leaving the senses to fend for themselves
The senses collect undeniable data
Of beta-carotene and thetawaves
The unsettled mind is at times an ally
Leaving the senses to fend for themselves
Then the senses wanted the sky
All rise
Eyes bow
Time feels like a midnight ride
Finality waits outside
Weeping in perplexity's arms
Caressing our smiles inside
The national debt is at times an ally
Leaving the people to fend for themselves
The people collect undeniable data
'Bout high pulse weapons and microwaves
The national debt is at times an ally
Leaving the people to fend for themselves
Then the people found out the lie
All rise
Eyes bow
Now our eyes
Have been found
Time feels like a midnight ride
Finality waits outside
Weeping in perplexity's arms
Caressing our smiles inside
Wanting to get you high
Wanting to touch the sky
All rise
Eyes bow
Now our eyes
Have been found
Time feels like a midnight ride
Finality waits outside
Weeping in perplexity's arms
Caressing our smiles in-
Lyrics submitted by hardcor_toonz, edited by Shattering, AngelSwordAF, Darkhogg
Thetawaves Lyrics as written by Shavo Odadjian Daron Malakian
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Ok, so this is what I drew from it after reading Thinker1's and ThisUser's interpretation:
"The unsettled mind is at times an ally, Leaving the senses to fend for them selves"
-Alright I think this is about a kind of uncertainty about our lives that we have in the back of our minds. A kind of emptiness that drives us to seek the truth; so that would be consider "an ally." and then the second part about the senses fending for themselves is about how this uncertainty and incompleteness is almost instinctual and aside from higher thought we seek the truth naturally.
"All rise, I fall, Time feels like a midnight ride, Finality waits outside, Weeping in perplexity's arms, Curessing our smiles inside,"
-Ok so ThisUser said that beta carotine was used in the development of vitamin A in the body; the part that we branch off is this. Vitamin A, aside from what he/she says is does, also is important for vision. The whole eat carrots or go blind. This is because vitamin A deficiency can lead to deterioration of the retina. So, i think this is used as a metaphor to seeing the truth, or opening our eyes. The part about the Thetawaves is a bit more complicated, in my opinion. Thetawaves are waves that are present in the brain during REM, or rapid eye motion which is the deepest sleep that we can achieve. So going off of what Thinker1 said, life is like a dream a really intense REM dream, and eventually we are going to wake up. That's why we have the "unsettled mind," because our senses realize something is wrong and that maybe this isn't reality.
thats all i got haha. read Thinker1 and ThisUsers posts first, it might help you understand mine.