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"
Do you believe in me
Enough to sacrifice
Do you believe in me
Enough to end your life
Do you believe in me
Enough to kill for me
Do you believe in me
Enough to die for me
Come on and join me
Grab my hand
Together we will feast
On the blood of the weak
Empire
Destroying dignity
Empire
Destroying humanity
When you walk the path
You will discover a world undreamed of
Your suffering will be legendary
Do you believe in suffering
Do you believe in me
Enough to slay your brother
Do you believe in me
Enough to betray your family
Come on and join me
Grab my hand
Together we will feast
On the blood of the weak
Empire
Destroying dignity
Empire
Destroying humanity
When you walk the path
Your feelings won't betray you
When you walk the path
Your agony will elate you
Empire
Destroying dignity
Empire
Destroying humanity
Enough to sacrifice
Do you believe in me
Enough to end your life
Do you believe in me
Enough to kill for me
Do you believe in me
Enough to die for me
Come on and join me
Grab my hand
Together we will feast
On the blood of the weak
Empire
Destroying dignity
Empire
Destroying humanity
When you walk the path
You will discover a world undreamed of
Your suffering will be legendary
Do you believe in suffering
Do you believe in me
Enough to slay your brother
Do you believe in me
Enough to betray your family
Come on and join me
Grab my hand
Together we will feast
On the blood of the weak
Empire
Destroying dignity
Empire
Destroying humanity
When you walk the path
Your feelings won't betray you
When you walk the path
Your agony will elate you
Empire
Destroying dignity
Empire
Destroying humanity
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Seems to me like this song is about religion and god, or something similar. He's asking if you believe in him "god" enough to kill for him, die for him, and do ridiculous things for him.
its about a country, "die for me" such as go to war, or it can also be about a controlling person such as a girl who expects u to go to great lengths to please her..
i suppose that this is about politics (empire = government). it's quite reachable if thinking so, :)
as for me this is about how governments controlls everything, even the people's beheviour and their life goals etc...
and ... the suffering is that what you get for your freedom [when you walk the path] (opposition of emipre), and it must bring you happiness [Your agony will elate you]
i'm done now
I have to agree with -=ViRUS=-...a government controlling what we all do, say, think...etc, "Empire, destroying dignity" but then joecorrao could be right as well with the song being about going to war. Think of it like this.
You have a government who controls what thier people of the country do and whatnot, and then most of those people go to war and die for thier country, but not for what the believe in...sit and think about it for a minute you will see what im talking about
This song is either aimed directly at the US government (empire, destroying humanity, destroying our dignity) or at the al-quaida culture. I'm thinking it's aimed at the US more. Lines like feast on the blood of the weak could refer to what we are doing in Iraq. However, the sacrafice lines sound like more of a terrorist idea.
i think is the government, like everyone say. or back in the days where empire rule the world, and the laws you obey what the empire say. and they will hang by evry word the empire will say
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I know for a fact that this song isn't about star wars. I used to think the same thing untill last friday when i went to see Chimaira at Mayhem Fest. While getting my shirt signed by the whole band I asked Mark Hunter , the lead singer, if Empire was about star wars and he said it wasn't. But I was getting pushed from behind by some punks so he never told me what it really was about. Sorry! CHIMAIRA!!! \m/ \m/
I think Virus said it well. God this song is fucking crazy it makes me want to punch a baby.