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"
I'd firewalk
Through Dinosaur Hell
To keep your hopes up
And hold your head
And I'd halo the harpoons
That hail through your soul
Sign off the world
The wildfires burn
In hopes
High fire waves
Catch in your hair
Lashing the womb
Of emptiness where
I'd firewalk
The cracked spine stairway
Sign off the world
The wildfires burn
Sign off the world
The wildfires burn
In hopes
We're sharks that do nothing
But stall and think
We're sharks that do nothing
But stall and think
Through Dinosaur Hell
To keep your hopes up
And hold your head
And I'd halo the harpoons
That hail through your soul
Sign off the world
The wildfires burn
In hopes
High fire waves
Catch in your hair
Lashing the womb
Of emptiness where
I'd firewalk
The cracked spine stairway
Sign off the world
The wildfires burn
Sign off the world
The wildfires burn
In hopes
We're sharks that do nothing
But stall and think
We're sharks that do nothing
But stall and think
Lyrics submitted by SuntoryTime12
Halo the Harpoons Lyrics as written by Liam Oneil David Alexandre Hamelin
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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Song's called Halo the Harpoon, no S.
It's great though, the whole new album is. Logic wasn't nearly as good as this, it was too indy and dull for me.
i am holding the cd in my hand right now....called "halo the harpoons" fyi
i am holding the cd in my hand right now....called "halo the harpoons" fyi
Best song on 'Without Feathers'. Which is saying a lot cause all the songs are amazing.
I really have no idea what this song means. Maybe its about a girl that he's trying to help...but I'm not sure about the imagery he's painting here... it sounds cool though.
the piano riff at 1:47 in this song is awesome. i love how they incoporate more piano in this album than Logic.
I see this as a song to someone who has shut themselves off emotionally. When upset, the mind can do a lot of funny things, like quash passion and deaden emotion. I know it seems cliche to attribute this to depression, but when depressed negative thought loops can play over and over in someone's mind, causing them to 'turn themselves off' and give up on what made them happy. It could also apply to extreme worry or anxiety. The person in this song has a lot of weight on their shoulders--clearly, if the singer would have to deal with dinosaur hell and haloing harpoons to somehow keep their hopes up. It's actually very sweet if thought of in this way, because it's about the lengths that the singer would go to so that the person could escape their own worries and negativity.
'High fire waves Catch in your hair Lashing the womb Of emptiness where I’d firewalk The cracked spine stairway'
This is what makes me think it's about a mental shut-down. The mind ought to be a lively place that gives birth to many ideas and passions, but here the person's mind is called empty. In my interpretation, it's empty of former hope and joy because of detrimental thoughts (due to depression, worry, whatever). Plus, imagining the spine as a cracked stairway to the mind is just awesome imagery.
The line 'Sign off the world / wildfires burn / in hopes' might be a call to this person to forget their troubles and let their inner fire (or whatever things they were passionate about before this shut-down) burn wildly in hopes of finding a way out of the low-point that they're experiencing.
For the last line: if a shark stops swimming, it immediately sinks. Maybe it's a way of saying that doing nothing but thinking (or getting lost in thoughts, namely negative ones) is ultimately detrimental.
Of course, I could be totally wrong :). It's an incredibly beautiful song, though, regardless of any meaning at all.
One of my favorite songs from One of my all time favorite bands... there is a missing lyric though after :And I’d halo the harpoons That hail through your soul
There should be this lyric- "you've been all soaked in whale blood red"
I believe that is what he says
and i agree with atsang about the use of piano...awesome