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”
Free my mind
Heal my scars
Erase the past
Dark days to forget
And memories to last
In my heart
Free me now
Make me forget
And forgive
There's no use
To go on and live
Show me a way
To the sun
Heal my scars
Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here
Let my eyes take in
The beauty that's here
That's left on this earth
My ears long to hear
A melody
Give me sight
Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here
Poison is slowly seeping through my veins
Stealing the only dignity in me
I pick them up and let them fall
To cause your pain and hit them all
[grunts]
One more life to live is what I want
I'll take the joy away from them
See to it, they will all be damned
One more chance to heal what I have harmed
The dragon is wreak havoc in my brain
Plays my emotion, a never ending game
Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here
One more life to live for me
I want the night just to color the day
The morning to chase all my nightmares away
Don't you deny that we're all human beings
We all have our flaws that can make ourself obscene
Obscene
Give me what I want
Give me what I need right now
That's what I want
That's what I need, get it!
Dolendo novit mortalis vitam
Tell me what I want
Tell me what I need right now
That's what I want
That's all I need, cure me
Dolendo discit mori mortalis
Losers
Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here
Heal my scars
Erase the past
Dark days to forget
And memories to last
In my heart
Free me now
Make me forget
And forgive
There's no use
To go on and live
Show me a way
To the sun
Heal my scars
Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here
Let my eyes take in
The beauty that's here
That's left on this earth
My ears long to hear
A melody
Give me sight
Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here
Poison is slowly seeping through my veins
Stealing the only dignity in me
I pick them up and let them fall
To cause your pain and hit them all
[grunts]
One more life to live is what I want
I'll take the joy away from them
See to it, they will all be damned
One more chance to heal what I have harmed
The dragon is wreak havoc in my brain
Plays my emotion, a never ending game
Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here
One more life to live for me
I want the night just to color the day
The morning to chase all my nightmares away
Don't you deny that we're all human beings
We all have our flaws that can make ourself obscene
Obscene
Give me what I want
Give me what I need right now
That's what I want
That's what I need, get it!
Dolendo novit mortalis vitam
Tell me what I want
Tell me what I need right now
That's what I want
That's all I need, cure me
Dolendo discit mori mortalis
Losers
Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here
Lyrics submitted by killerthebunny
Chasing the Dragon Lyrics as written by Mark Jan Jansen Adrianus Ad Sluijter
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Peermusic Publishing
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It's about drug addiction. More specifically, it's about trying to drown out pain and guilt with drugs, only to have it haunt you ever after.
Most of the songs on The Divine Conspiracy deal with some form of human corruption. This is about self destruction.
I can't believe there are no comments on this song, it's one of the best epica's song.
But I think it's about losing someone and being lost, she doesn't seem to find herself but she knows the memories will stay, no matter what.
I really love this song, it's really beautiful.
Actually, I have to disagree with the drug addiction theory. I read the lyrics and it sounds more like just letting go of the past to find redemption. The screaming is about destruction he's brought about, which later wracks him with guilt. But, there's somebody telling him to just let it go while he lays on his death bed.
I agree with you also. I don't think it is about letting go of the past. It has become my favorite song because it reminds me of something that happened to me where I had to end a very good friendship with someone dear to me and it hurt so much. I would listen to it all the time and then realize that it spoke to me. The parts that I really like are "memories will stay and find their way" which is true. I think it is equating drug addiction to memories of being hurt and coming out of the depression and darkness and stating that everything will be fine. Just my opnion.
I didn't think so ... if you google "Chasing The Dragon" first thing you will find is a wikipedia page about Addiction and some stories about HongKong ...<br /> <br /> GOOGLE : google.com/search<br /> WIKIPEDIA : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_dragon<br /> <br /> Also I think its a song about loneliness and escaping from people and friends because of their mistakes ...<br /> <br /> I can say wonderfull song ... for my bad times ... for times I breakup with a friend ...
@Armadio2 "Poison is slowly seeping through my veins<br /> Stealing the only dignity in me"<br /> "The dragon is wreak havoc in my brain<br /> Plays my emotion, a never ending game"<br /> <br /> It's totally about drugs<br />
It sounds to me like she's trying to ensure someone that her drug addiction won't affect anything in her mind badly.
Nothing will be forever gone Memories will stay
Somehow, I think it's about the book Frankenstein, or some situation similar to it. If you've read the book, you'll agree that there are MANY similarities between the song and the book. I shall remember this song when I'm working on my Frankenstein project!
I also think its about drugs and the difficult process of rehab. The music is trying to catch these emotions and reflect them. I think this song is beautiful one of the best songs of Epica.
Chasing the dragon refers to opium (heroin)... It mean you want to reach the same "high" as the first time you use it but not being able to.
Great song with great lyrics!!
The drug addiction theme seems to make sense - the song title could be a reference to a method of smoking opium common in Hong Kong's drug dens in the days of the Walled City. Perhaps Epica have read the book by Jackie Pullinger - who knows...
Just throwing some thoughts out there...
The whole album is a concept. The character goes through all negative human emotions in the first part of the album:
the Obsessice Devotion: lust Menace of Vanity: vanity Chasing the Dragon: addictions Never Enough: greed
Actually it is about a drug addiction. The other guy had it completely right, it's about opium (heroin). I didn't think so at first but after you do some research "chasing the dragon" is a term used in prison life, drug dealers were often referred to as dragons, thus if you are searching for a high then you are chasing the dragon. Also, the dragon is was referred as the trail of smoke that is created when you heat up things like opium.
beautiful song, i definitely overplay it on my ipod =]