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"
a dismal wasteland
touched by some sun star
a single thread of light
(to be seen)
they don't wave back
when only locusts I attract
I wonder why I even bother
touched by some sun star
a single thread of light
(to be seen)
they don't wave back
when only locusts I attract
I wonder why I even bother
Lyrics submitted by Harry_Manback
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Try these lyrics:
A dismal wasteland Touched by some sun star A single thread of light
(To be seen)
They don't wave back When only locusts I attract I wonder why I even bother
This is part of the visual message on the cover, of the wasteland, dead trees, it seems nothing is living. The only thing even touching it is the sun. It exists, it is seen, but there is nothing, only an infestation of locusts, the locusts that are responsible for killing everything and making it into a wasteland.
The analogy, the meaning, is that this is a person. I've had this happen to myself many times - I stop to look deep inside someone, thinking that glimmer of light might be some hope of something good. And I end up feeling as dead inside as they do, because their locusts are the only thing that's left to greet me. They destroy me as well. And I wonder why I even bother.
good work on the lyric corrections, i like the idea of the song and the imagery ur talking about i haven't ever seen the cover but yeh, fucking awesome song i love the last minute....it's just too good..
but ur emo shit u should leave out or save for the masses of emo clones out there. they might think ur cliche introspective bullshit means something.....oh and individuality comes from strength of self. not what u look like and definately not how much u cry about shit.....maybe it worked for at some point....but ur all just big pushover corporate suckers now...."monkey see monkey do"
what the hell does the speaky bit at the begining say.. ive asked like 3 people and everyone hears different things..
i hear .. hey maggie, call me maggie..end of message, but others have heard hey baby or hey rosie, now i think it sounds more like benny or bangy or beggy
Pretty positive it's Maggie.
The name is anyone's guess, but that's pretty much what I heard. Kinda creepy, but it really makes for a good intro eh?
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Hey, does anyone think this song might have something to do with John the baptist? I mean, it comes right after sparkplug (which sounds like it's about the passion of the Christ) and JTB was sort of an outcast who ate locusts right? Or am I just grasping for straws here? I just thought it might fit in with the themes discussed here and the aftermath of sparkplug, but maybe not.