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"
make your move
obvious humor
desperate and respiratory plight
always on
dressed to impress
i’ll be the last one to find out why
time takes its toll on us
this changes everything
i’d be a liar if I denied you at all
oh, now that I know
this changes everything
i’ve been trading ideas with intriguing men, over and over again
i percieve an honest solution
to all your problems (all she wants to find out is why)
time takes its toll on us
this changes everything
i’d be a liar if i denied you at all
oh, now that I know
this changes everything
oh, now that I know
oh, now that I know
remove from home
I promise to write, I promise
remove from home
there’s no gift without a price
remove from home
I promise to write, I promise
as the amplifier screams out loud for the last time
wave your hands at the audience as you sink in this
last chance to hide you need desperately so
Motion gives up on you in the end
I’ll try my best to be home by then
You’ll see the grace we’ve had
You’ll never have
You never had
i’m going home but my own way
i’m going home by my own
i’m going home but my own way
i’m going home by my own
I would really love if you’d sit him down
I would really love if you’d pull this thread
I would really love if you’d sit him down
I would really love if you’d pull this thread
obvious humor
desperate and respiratory plight
always on
dressed to impress
i’ll be the last one to find out why
time takes its toll on us
this changes everything
i’d be a liar if I denied you at all
oh, now that I know
this changes everything
i’ve been trading ideas with intriguing men, over and over again
i percieve an honest solution
to all your problems (all she wants to find out is why)
time takes its toll on us
this changes everything
i’d be a liar if i denied you at all
oh, now that I know
this changes everything
oh, now that I know
oh, now that I know
remove from home
I promise to write, I promise
remove from home
there’s no gift without a price
remove from home
I promise to write, I promise
as the amplifier screams out loud for the last time
wave your hands at the audience as you sink in this
last chance to hide you need desperately so
Motion gives up on you in the end
I’ll try my best to be home by then
You’ll see the grace we’ve had
You’ll never have
You never had
i’m going home but my own way
i’m going home by my own
i’m going home but my own way
i’m going home by my own
I would really love if you’d sit him down
I would really love if you’d pull this thread
I would really love if you’d sit him down
I would really love if you’d pull this thread
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this cd should be sooooooo good.
if i had to take a stab at the meaning... id think itd be about having a friend/girl try hard to get really close to you, but in the end it just ruins it all. The writer still primises to keep in touch, although the person the song refers to screwed up something important.
I could have sworn it was "Always undressed to impress"
Nope, these lyrics were taken right from the band me thinks.
Oh yea, Circa Survive=amazing. Better than Saosin in my book.
One edge this band has over Saosin, I think, is that the lyrics are a lot easier to understand and the meanings aren't hard as fuck to figure out.
yea.. my guess is that it there was a problem that ruined everything one of the persons dreams were. now the person is trying to avoid the other but still kind of friendly towards that other.
a message to phroot, you have a point with the easy to understand lyrics.. but what was so great about Saosin was that the lyrics really had to make you think about the whole song and what i could really mean. that plus Anthony singing/screaming his voice with fast paced music.
it* could really mean.
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on the ep, the song's now called the great golden baby :) beautiful.
i think the meanings are hard as fuck to figure out