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"
In between, insidious vapor shall teem
Looming so loathesome
And it seems to me like I'm dead inside
Bloated corpse, propped out of tradition
I can never recall what it was I had ever to strive for as a youth
Was it just to exist, autonomously?
No, we don't want to work
We just want to fuck,
Swallow pills and forget our curses
No, we don't need pigs like you
We'll follow the laws of our emptying veins
In this world of nothing for me
I'd be sooner destroyed
Vampire youth, raise your cups to the ne'er waning moon,
Let its visage ring true!
To the hearts cold and blue
We're dying each moment, free
We're all animals here
Flesh and blood, bone and dream!
We're just impulses here
Another piece of shit in the storm
Just another piece of shit
From the smelling of things it appears this shit has come to a boil
The night-time we shall rule as our own
While the hollow shall sleep
We shall bark at the moon
In this world of nothing for me
I'd be sooner destroyed
In this world there is nothing for us but the sound (but the sound)
Vampire youth, raise your cups to the ne'er waning moon,
Let its visage ring true!
To the hearts cold and blue
We're dying each moment
We'll never sleep again
We'll be going fucking mad
Sin and hell is all we will ever know
Just another piece of shit!
Looming so loathesome
And it seems to me like I'm dead inside
Bloated corpse, propped out of tradition
I can never recall what it was I had ever to strive for as a youth
Was it just to exist, autonomously?
No, we don't want to work
We just want to fuck,
Swallow pills and forget our curses
No, we don't need pigs like you
We'll follow the laws of our emptying veins
In this world of nothing for me
I'd be sooner destroyed
Vampire youth, raise your cups to the ne'er waning moon,
Let its visage ring true!
To the hearts cold and blue
We're dying each moment, free
We're all animals here
Flesh and blood, bone and dream!
We're just impulses here
Another piece of shit in the storm
Just another piece of shit
From the smelling of things it appears this shit has come to a boil
The night-time we shall rule as our own
While the hollow shall sleep
We shall bark at the moon
In this world of nothing for me
I'd be sooner destroyed
In this world there is nothing for us but the sound (but the sound)
Vampire youth, raise your cups to the ne'er waning moon,
Let its visage ring true!
To the hearts cold and blue
We're dying each moment
We'll never sleep again
We'll be going fucking mad
Sin and hell is all we will ever know
Just another piece of shit!
Lyrics submitted by espguitarist13
Miasma Lyrics as written by David Lock Brian Eschbach
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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It's supposed to be about the vile ugliness, selfishness, laziness, and just plain out pieces of shit that humanity really is. They will always sin, they'll always just wanna fuck, get away from their problems like bitches.
I think it's about how Trevor thinks the youth of today feel. I dont think I have to get in detail because he goes into detail in the song.
Trevor explains how our generation seeks to escape sobriety, life, and monotony. This song has a more black metal feel with the whole the violin. Great Riff, one of the best songs. Drums are as complex but still great.
My favorite song off the new album! Prolly why they named the album after it.
i love the breakdown at the end when everything stops for a second and its fucking brutal. they way the exit riff is, it just somehow wraps up the whole concept of the song. its awsome.
B12 is right, its my Fav song on the album too and deffinately the most powerful and thats why the band undoubtedly named the album after it also i love the fuckin Black metal feel to this song with the giutar riffs fuckin killer!!!!!
"Miasma is considered to be a poisonous vapor or mist that is filled with particles from decomposed matter (miasmata) that could cause illnesses and is identifiable by its nasty, foul smell (which, of course, came from the decomposed material)."
Thats the definition of the word Miasma. Hopefully it will give you a better insight into the song.
The first poster had a correct interpretation, but it's notable that Trevor specifies the young and rebellious. The second poster was also correct. as well as the third.
The meaning has already been clearly stated. Although their lyrics aren't at their best in this song, the vocals and music alone make it their best song by far. The Black Dahlia Murder is possibly the best band in the genre. Their lyrical style, vocals, and music set them apart from other bands and it's a shame that more people don't know about them. Miasma is their best song on the album...and any album.
I agree with I Own Your Head, I reckon it's how teens or "Yampire Youth" feel about the world, which is true, hell I'm a teenager and when I heard this song, I was just like...Fuck...YES! It just spoke to me, TBDM are so fucking great, best band around atm.