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"
Seep will carry us
After mentioned having a lesson
It's the least discerning place
We can die too
We both should last another day
Another failed adventure straight to nowhere
One more you say, What comes is these
It's all the better your feat seems to carry well
Could we die too?
So soon
We toss our failures at the earth
Connect into a cross
Stripped away another rule
Blame it all because
We toss our failures at the earth
Stripped away from under
So shy cross my heart ascend
With images to fall apart to die
What don't we know?
What should we know?
Slipping under is just the beginning of firsts
Could we die too?
So soon
We toss our failures at the earth
Connect into a cross
Stripped away another rule
Blame it all because
We toss our failures at the earth
Stripped away from under
We still forget to mention
Our waste upon the arms
We still forget to mention
The hope that is the cause
We still forget to mention
Our waste upon the arms
We still forget to mention
The hope that is the cause
Well could we die too?
Well could we die?
Well could we die too?
We couldn't die
We toss our failures at the earth
Connect into a cross
Stripped away another rule
Blame it all because
We toss our failures at the earth
Stripped away from under
After mentioned having a lesson
It's the least discerning place
We can die too
We both should last another day
Another failed adventure straight to nowhere
One more you say, What comes is these
It's all the better your feat seems to carry well
Could we die too?
So soon
We toss our failures at the earth
Connect into a cross
Stripped away another rule
Blame it all because
We toss our failures at the earth
Stripped away from under
So shy cross my heart ascend
With images to fall apart to die
What don't we know?
What should we know?
Slipping under is just the beginning of firsts
Could we die too?
So soon
We toss our failures at the earth
Connect into a cross
Stripped away another rule
Blame it all because
We toss our failures at the earth
Stripped away from under
We still forget to mention
Our waste upon the arms
We still forget to mention
The hope that is the cause
We still forget to mention
Our waste upon the arms
We still forget to mention
The hope that is the cause
Well could we die too?
Well could we die?
Well could we die too?
We couldn't die
We toss our failures at the earth
Connect into a cross
Stripped away another rule
Blame it all because
We toss our failures at the earth
Stripped away from under
Lyrics submitted by Screamline
Midnight To Midnight Lyrics as written by Samuel Loeffler Peter Loeffler
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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hes talking about his third eye. "we both..." obviously suggests hes talking to a specific something or someone else.
hes trying to say that are we just giving up our hopes and dreams just because its hard. we fail at it once and so we say i cant do it and hang it up on a cross aad to live a life with no goals, dreams, or hope is useless ... instead we should call for hope and get up after we fall because if we do that we wont "die"... i might be wrong but thats how i see it
those lyrics aren't right. they were probably written before the album came out. the lyrics are in the booklet with the cd but i don't have it with me. this is what i remember:
Sleep will carry us Have to mention heavy on the REM (i know its weird and doesn't sound like it but its something with 'REM'...i would remember that) It's the least discerning place
We could dive too...
We both shouldN'T last another day Another failed invention straight to nowhere One more you say, what causes these It's all the better your greed seems to carry you well
Pre-Chorus: We couldn't dive too... Too...too...
Chorus: We tossed our failures at the Earth Connected to a cause Stripped away another fool Blame it all because We tossed our failures at the Earth Stripped away from under
So shy, cross my heart I sinned With images TOO FAR apart to tell What don't we know? What should we know? Slipping under is just the beginning of thirst
Pre-Chorus
Chorus
We so forgot to mention A waste upon the hours We so forgot to mention The hook that is the chorus
We so forgot to mention A waste upon the hours We so forgot to mention The hook that is the chorus
We couldn't dive too... We couldn't dive... We couldn't dive too... We couldn't dive...
Chorus
that's correct. except for the exact verse before it starts, that's correct. and everytime he says "we could/couldn't dive too..." in the booklet it says "too far" but he definitely never sings that so i left it out.
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i forgot to give my interpretation. it's definitely about dreaming or sleep. REM can stand for rapid eye movement which can occur during sleep. the opening line combined with the title is very meaningful (if i'm correct): sleep will carry us + midnight to midnight = sleep will carry us from midnight to midnight. i think it might be talking about sleep being a waste of time, e.g."a waste upon the hours". we could dive too far might mean we could get too caught up in our dreams.
but then again, he also says we couldN'T dive too far most of the time. that's why it could also be that sleep is GOOD. in the chorus, he could be saying we let our worries and failures go as we drift away from earthly things, "we toss our failures at the Earth".
that's my interpretation. a negative or positive song about sleep.
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This song is awesome...how come more people didn't comment on it. This is one of the best Chevelle songs yet..
i think this song is about living in your fantasy to escape reality. midnight to midnight means living in a fantasy will bring us from life to death. screamline's interpretation is good too. but with every song there are a million interpretations remember that.