Before They Knew

this song really explains how i feel towards a certain someone i really love this song

Yeah I had to put these lyrics up I was shocked no one had. This is a great song. I'm fond of repeating this track when i listen to the album often.

The song in my opinion is reaching out to someone and trying to understand what the other is going through

Sare xoxo

Someone with a disorder of some kind maybe? Perhaps they just can't themselves all the talk about coming down perhaps they have depression. I think the "The answer's Always here Beneath your skin" is about wanting to kill yourself but the answer should I or shouldnt I is obvious, No.

These lyrics need some correcting.

Were you holding fathers hand? Did your mother bleed And understand How your whole life's slipped away? Fading under the grey Did the world around you fail? And were you hiding for us all to see? Did the world around you fail? When it all came down on me

Is it dark within your mind? Does your body ache for love sometimes? Is it cold within your room? Did you pray they'd come back for you? Did the world around you fail? When it all came down on me

The answer's Always here Beneath your skin

Im not Coming down Does it feel like this? Sometimes When the world stops turning Long before they knew Does it feel like this? Sometimes When it all stops working Now

It's alright It's alright It's alright, we dont have to think about it

It's alright It's alright It's alright, we dont have to talk about it Now Now Now, We don't have to think about it Now Now Now, We don't have to talk about it, think about it

Oh it's all you'll ever need And the answers always here, beneath your skin

I'm not coming down Does it feel like this? Sometimes When it all stops working Long before they knew Does it feel like this Sometimes When the world stops turning around It's alright It's alright It's alright It's alright, now It's alright It's alright now

It's alright

This song personifies my early life. Growing up in a fractured family at a very young age and my decent into childhood depression at 6yr or so.

I didn't know how to communicate articulately what I was feeling at that age and things just got worse. I was eternally sad and just thought that was what life was for everyone. Having suicidal thoughts and 'preying' that I might die in my sleep or wake up as someone else and have another family.

The core problem being the separation of my parents. Like the song, we didn't "talk about it" and told to "not think about it". We lived on struggle street, 3 kids and a single parent. The other parent disappearing from us.

Now at 32, I find myself listening to what my early life was like, in an amazing song and I thought I was the only one that could describe what it felt like.

The entire theme of "Imago" profoundly correlates with my experience growing up with Borderline Personality disorder and Complex trauma from sexual abuse and reoccurring trauma. Not sure if that's what this is about, but this is what this song means to me. Possibly reuniting with someone lost, who has this PD and "it's alright we don't have to talk about it" meaning the semantics of discussion are irrelevant, but rather consoling the individual and reassuring them it's going to be ok..