Forget To Remember

unreal song

I love this song. It is one of my favs on the new cd. This song is about trying to move on after a horrible relationship. The memories are ruining his life even though the problem is already solved. I almost feel like he is trying to move on with someone else and cannot because of the memories of this previous relationship. He even goes as far as to ask the new person in his life for help, in the end succeding in forgetting and moving on with life. (Although the ending of the song seems like he is still just hiding the fact that the problem remains.)

Surrender to the shadows, haunting, inside, bleed through you.

i think the same thing that oKySP said, every song can be taken in different ways depending on the person and what their going through, me personally, i find the meaning to be pretty much the same as what oKySP said in his first post, except i think of it as if he didnt get out of a horrible relationship but as if a relationship he had just ended badly and, like oKySp said, the memories of that are controlling him and he wants to forget so he can move on... i just think that because im going through that myself, i had a wonderful relationship with an awsome girl but we broke up and it just hurts... but any way you see it this song still kicks ass, great to listen to in any mood

To me this song is about someone i loved that changed me, in good and bad ways. I cant ever forget and remembering is painful. I think back to those days and wonder about the decisions i made and why. If i had done stuff differently could i be happier now. The irony is thinking about it makes me depressed, so what could have made me happier is now tearing me up inside. Yea thats just the way i feel about it tho. Love Mudvayne

i think this song isnt necessarily about relationships. I think it could be about any haunting memory that you can't get rid of. its affected you so much that it has changed who you are as a person, "memory has shaped me once again." its almost a plea for help. like give my sanity back kind of. i may be way off but whatever

For me, this song is about change in the person as a whole. Forget the use in Saw 2, forget the relationships, forget the world and think about the person. I think it's about how the person evolves over the years, in this case, from a child to a man, and looking back on who you used to be.

Then again, I'm probably far off.

hmm I don't think this has anything to do with relationships, I mean you can take it that way I would say. I think it has to do with repressed memories, or memories that you wish would fade away, that torment you and destroy you. "memory shapes me once again" If you take people who have had tramatic lives, they are self destructive, such as, they can have something good in their lives, or someone great in their life, and yet, their memories that torture them cause them to shove someone away, to do things to hurt the other person, its shaping their life for nothing but failure and isolation. All the feelings he desrcibes, Thoughtlessness,Arrogance, so on and so forth, are brought up and created by the memories that torture and haunt, the negative feelings that can cause one to drive someone or something far away and in order to have a normal life, you have to confront and surrender to the demons that haunt, in order to truly forget them.

I think it’s about abuse from one’s childhood and what it did to their mind as an adult but at the end overcoming it and not letting it control any longer

never looked into the meaning of the lyrics, but it sounds biblical, like god/man having an objective (gods point of view)/subjective (mans point of view) conversation with himself, not that im right, nor am i religious by any stretch of the imagination.

What have I done? (god/man questioning his actions. god throwing man out of the garden of Eden/man eating of the fruit of knowledge) Where have I come from? (god/man questioning gods/mans own existence) When I burnt the backs with the sun through a glass did I seal the loss that's become me? (god throwing man out of the garden of Eden/man feeling pain and mortality for the first time. both man and god losing connection with each other and asking if fate was sealed)

Feeling undone. What have I become? When I turned my back on you I turned my back on myself and became this machine. (god/man both living in ego for the transgression they caused each other)

Thoughtlessness Selfishness Hopelessness Arrogant (pure ego. god/man embodies both good and bad aspects of creation but living in ego)

I feel it on the inside Twisting and contorting Memory has shaped me once again. (god/man feeling lost and hurt remembering the transgression that was done to one another)

Still feel you on the inside Biting through and stinging Will I ever forget to remember? (god/man feeling each others presence but wanting to forget past transgressions)

Shadows in the sun Filter through us (the shadow self)

Still wrestle the demons that arrested me as a child (Satan/ego tempting man to eat of the forbidden fruit, also tempting god that man wouldnt eat of it, making a bet with god. both god and man living in ignorance at the same time) (child reference; as children live in ignorance)

Confession rejected (god/man admitting they were wrong, but still not fully forgiving each other)

We grow up To give up (both man/god maturing, yet neither has made an effort to reconnect, so neither really tries)

People step on the cracks for wounds owed paid back Through the words of surrender (not to sure what this could mean. man bringing up old wounds that they felt were owned to god, but paid back by man, and asking for forgiveness, seems logically consistent)

Can you save me? From myself. From these memories (man/god asking each other to save us from ourselves, god and man are one)

Surrender To the shadows Haunting inside Bleed through you (god/man both surrendering to the shadow self, shadow self for god is man, shadow self for man is god)

Surrender to the secrets (the secret being; god/man are both aspects of each other and accepting it)

...inside Lies within you (double entendre, saying; the secret to mans divinity is inside us and saying, the ego which lies to us is also there) fucking brilliant!!!!

Can't feel you on the inside Set down the bag and left it (man never fully accepting our own divinity, so saying, fuck it im done trying)

Lost memory has left me One again (man forgetting, again. death)

Open up the inside Admission for the cleansing Now that I've forgotten to remember (the cycle starts all over again. rebirth, god being eternal and man being an aspect of god, therefore man is eternal.)

hope ppl like my interpretation, its about sharing perspectives, we all may have our own interpretation, but the sharing of others perspectives can help come to a better understanding, not just of lyrics but reality as a whole, help others see things from a way they may have never considered before. thanks

see i could say it either reminds me of a ralation ship or as a child growing up to be an adult when your druk you can take it as trwo dfifferent way s which I am but i see it as a relation ship and he cann see the person and cant seem to fogert but can rememeber the person on the in side of himself, but anywahs yues thats my analogy im drunk so give me credit i love good night