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"
We walked on glass all day long, with eyes rolled back.
It came with smiles, it came with gestures, and it came with motives.
Investing flowers in one hand and a blade in the other,
This is between me and this blade, and my heart.
Distributing rusty knives in these countless attractive letters,
With a directional diagram of a guilty heart.
"Insert knife here."
Lack of thought on this subject has attested catastrophic.
Come one, come all, introduce knife to heart.
With our eyes rolled back.
It came with smiles, it came with gestures, and it came with motives.
Investing flowers in one hand and a blade in the other,
This is between me and this blade, and my heart.
Distributing rusty knives in these countless attractive letters,
With a directional diagram of a guilty heart.
"Insert knife here."
Lack of thought on this subject has attested catastrophic.
Come one, come all, introduce knife to heart.
With our eyes rolled back.
Lyrics submitted by I Heart Thursday
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thats fuckin crap!!! i turned this song in before i heart thursday... screw that! hmmm anywho i love this song even though i posted it first... what the fuck?
This song is about a guy allowing people to hurt him because he would rather get betrayed by a friend and know about it then to get stabbed in the back. Love this song im a big fan. "This is between me and this blade" great Lyric.
i rly like this song i don't give a shit about what it means but, on behalf of my friend... he says he's supposed to be asking for forgiveness... wtv
(pink floyd rocks btw...)
turn a cross upside down and it sorta looks like a knife. eh? eh? that and there's a passage from the bible, i don't remember which, where it refers to the word as a sword. "introduce knife to heart" sorta has a different meaning if you think of it that way.
Knives don't have hilts or a guard. Also they have single edges. So it would be more accurate if you said sword or dagger. I hope I don't come off sounding like a jerk.<br />
" We walked on glass all day long, with eyes rolled back." -I think this means that we walk all day in a life that could just break and fall apart, and we walk like this blind. A life without Christ is like walking blind on glass.
"This is between me and this blade, and my heart." -Like Shiz85 said, there is a passage from the bible that says the word of the Lord is like a sword. I think that the writer is struggling with something, maybe betweeen living in the world or for the Lord, and the struggle is just between him and what the Lord says."
"Come one, come all, introduce knife to heart." -I think hes finally conquered his struggle and now wants everybody to ask for forgiveness. He wants to inroduce the word of the Lord to thier hearts.
I agree with the two posts above me.. this guys are not really good musicians but they're ok, good band.
Dude these guys are great musicians, I don't how you could even remotely say that ther not. Anyway, I don't agree with the messege of the lyrics they intended, but I love the riffs, especially the riff in the chorus.
I love this song, as you can see from my s/n. I thin NoSecondKnife is right about the meaning NORMA JEAN ROCKS!
Norma Jean = Pure Fucking Bliss! But, alot of people say this song is about being fucked over but personally I think its about people butting into your personal life. I think its saying no matter how much a friend wants to help you out durning tough times, or no matter how much you seek help, in the end you still have to resolve the problem yourself. Either that or its saying you can either bitch all you want about a problem you've caused, or you can do something about it and try and make it better. I came up with that one from the stanza "We walked on glass all day long, with eyes rolled back. It came with smiles, it came with gestures, and it came with motives.
Investing flowers in one hand and a blade in the other, This is between me and this blade, and my heart. Distributing rusty knives in these countless attractive letters, With a directional diagram of a guilty heart. "Insert knife here."
I dunno those are my two guess. But honestly I don't care to much what it means because norma jean is just that awesome to where as it doesnt even matter
Shiz85, it's in Eph. 5, when Paul describes the armor of God. I think proven_guitarist hit it on the head with the meaning.