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"
Go build it up, tear it down
My finger in the strings connected to your hands
I dance the mockery
A theme of decadence
Now I am sinking in this violence
This time, emancipation is my right
This is what I want
For you to die
This is what I want
To be alive
Scene of complacency
An apathetic mind
But when it's brought to light
I see a king on a borrowed throne
Right now, the violence taking over
This time, regimes are changing in my mind
This is what I want
For you to die
This is what I want
To be alive
And I'm so sorry, my old friend
I'm leaving you tonight
So caught in this moment
The last breath of your life
So sorry
This is what I want
I'm sinking in this violence
For you to die
Emancipation is my right
This is what I want
The violence taking over
To be alive
Regimes are changing in my mind
So sorry
Try to understand
So sorry
Try to understand
So sorry
Understand
So sorry
My finger in the strings connected to your hands
I dance the mockery
A theme of decadence
Now I am sinking in this violence
This time, emancipation is my right
This is what I want
For you to die
This is what I want
To be alive
Scene of complacency
An apathetic mind
But when it's brought to light
I see a king on a borrowed throne
Right now, the violence taking over
This time, regimes are changing in my mind
This is what I want
For you to die
This is what I want
To be alive
And I'm so sorry, my old friend
I'm leaving you tonight
So caught in this moment
The last breath of your life
So sorry
This is what I want
I'm sinking in this violence
For you to die
Emancipation is my right
This is what I want
The violence taking over
To be alive
Regimes are changing in my mind
So sorry
Try to understand
So sorry
Try to understand
So sorry
Understand
So sorry
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
No Surprises
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
This song is about killing your old self of sin and being born again in Christ, pretty obvious right?
yeah, that's what I think.
dag the first line sounds awesome when he screams it!
This song is about dying to your old self (To sin, your flesh) and then changing to have Christ be placed on the throne of your mind.
"I dance the mockery, a theme of decadence" - Is about living a life that is unfulfilling, you're going through the motions and it's fake. It's a mockery. "A theme of decadence" is referring to the cultural decline, and the decline within your own mind.
"Scene of complacency, an apathetic mind But when it's brought to light, I see a king on a borrowed throne." This is talking about how the devil uses us, but then when we bring our faults into the light-- we see a "King on a borrowed throne", the throne does not belong to Satan, it belongs to Christ-- and then the "Regime Change" is replacing Satan with Christ, replacing the things of this world-- with the things of God.
"This time, regimes are changing in my mind"
I think this song really speaks to anyone who has struggled, or is struggling with any kind of sin or addiction. Because "Regime Change" is a very good description of what it feels like is happening in your own mind. You are caught between the pull of the world and your flesh, and the what God has called you to be. While you are in the struggle of trying to ultimately place Christ on the throne-- there is a battle going on within your mind. I think that is where the "the violence taking over" line comes in... because it is a battle without physical weapons. A spiritual one, in your own mind.