Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
We'll take our virtues up in arms
To save ourselves
Tonight I'll fight and friends will stand here
And die with us
Halo, you mean nothing to me
Angel, you mean nothing to me
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
We'll wear our scars above our arms
And covered up
Should we keep this open ending
Just for us
Halo, you mean nothing to me
Angel, you mean nothing to me
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
Just take a look at yourself
You see reflections in all of your impurities
The taste, the taste of a burnt tongue
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
You mean nothing to me
You mean nothing to me
To save ourselves
Tonight I'll fight and friends will stand here
And die with us
Halo, you mean nothing to me
Angel, you mean nothing to me
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
We'll wear our scars above our arms
And covered up
Should we keep this open ending
Just for us
Halo, you mean nothing to me
Angel, you mean nothing to me
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
Just take a look at yourself
You see reflections in all of your impurities
The taste, the taste of a burnt tongue
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
If I am the message
Then you are the machine
You mean nothing to me
You mean nothing to me
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I can't believe I'm the first person to comment on this song. I really like this one. It's not their best, but it's one of my favorite nonethless. The music video is actually pretty fun to watch- just a bunch of clips from the beginning of their music journey to where they are now.
It wasn't what I was expecting exactly
I don't really know the meaning, so I'll go for a couple options. It could easily be about war. It might also be about a relationship-not necessarily a romantic relationship, though.
"Wear our scars above our arms and covered up Should we keep this open ended, just for us"
I love that line. I think this song is different than a lot of their other stuff. I like how they have such a variety.
And a third thing the song could be about is how they dealt with their previous record label, and about the reflections in all their impurities.
Like I said before, though, I really have no idea what the song is about. Any thoughts?
this song i sick just found them on myspace
Second that angill973- this song is absolutely amazing. I only really noticed how catchy it is after they released it as a single...love it. The way the line "Angel, you mean nothing to me" was said inspired me to look for a meaning but, ironically, here there is none!
Here's my attempt. Most of this song seems to be about ideas...the chorus, principally: "I am the message" i.e. the essence, what gives life, intelligence; "you are the machine" i.e. simply a mechanical method of transmitting that. For that "angel," - more idealistic imagery - "you mean nothing to me".
Secondly, in the first verse they're taking up arms for "virtues", partly to save themselves; yet they "[will] die tonight": again, ideals above practical reality.
Finally, we have the "reflection of all your impurities"; as Jefferson showed, no ideas translate perfectly to reality.
Thus, perhaps, this is a song about almost the essence, the 'soul', if you will, higher ideals...
This rather tenuous link is all I can infer; however, knowing Fightstar, it might just be another awesome song like Grand Unification Pt 1 with no meaning whatsoever!
I believe the chorus is a little less cryptic, as in "if I am the message, then you are the machine", being a metaphor, as in an answering machine on a telephone, and the message that it is storing. So if 'I am the message, and you are the machine", then I have a message to convey, and the person I'm talking to (record company?) has the means to let others hear it. Another idea is that as a message needs the machine to have any relevant purpose, it could just be a metaphor for need for another in a relationship?