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"
Death and kill the dust
And we're waiting
Ruined in the rust
We're all craving
It feels like
It feels like
Don't you know the cost
Of your betrayal
Your the one thats lost
Your gonna fail
It feels like
It feels like your gasping with all your might
You can't take away my strength
Fix these broken things
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
You can't take away my pride
I won't be denied
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
Its sent from below
I'm on the wire
Fire will burn below
But I am higher
It feels like
It feels like
Don't you know the cost
Of your betrayal
Your the one thats lost
Your gonna fail
It feels like
It feels like your gasping with all your life
You can't take away my strength
Fix these broken things
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
You can't take away my pride
I won't be denied
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
Do you remember how
You became who you are now
Do you remember how
It felt to breathe without
Gasping with all your might
You can't take away my strength
Fix these broken things
Nothing left to fight
You can't take away my strength
Fix these broken things
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
You can't take away my pride
I won't be denied
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
There's nothing left to fight
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
Live free or let me die
Live free or let me die
And we're waiting
Ruined in the rust
We're all craving
It feels like
It feels like
Don't you know the cost
Of your betrayal
Your the one thats lost
Your gonna fail
It feels like
It feels like your gasping with all your might
You can't take away my strength
Fix these broken things
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
You can't take away my pride
I won't be denied
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
Its sent from below
I'm on the wire
Fire will burn below
But I am higher
It feels like
It feels like
Don't you know the cost
Of your betrayal
Your the one thats lost
Your gonna fail
It feels like
It feels like your gasping with all your life
You can't take away my strength
Fix these broken things
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
You can't take away my pride
I won't be denied
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
Do you remember how
You became who you are now
Do you remember how
It felt to breathe without
Gasping with all your might
You can't take away my strength
Fix these broken things
Nothing left to fight
You can't take away my strength
Fix these broken things
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
You can't take away my pride
I won't be denied
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
There's nothing left to fight
There's nothing left to fight
Live free or let me die
Live free or let me die
Live free or let me die
Lyrics submitted by MusicFREAK20
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Here are the fixed lyrics
Death until the dust, and we're waiting Ruined in the rust, of our craving It feels like, it feels like Don't you know the cost, of your betrayal You're the one that's lost, you're gonna fail It feels like, it feels like you're gasping with all your might
You can't take away my strength Fix these broken veins There's nothing left to fight (Live free or let me die) You can't take away my pride, I won't be denied There's nothing left to fight (Live free or let me die)
Insects walk below, I'm on a wire Fire will burn below, but I am higher It feels like, it feels like Don't you know the cost, of your betrayal You're the one that's lost, you're gonna fail It feels like, it feels like you're gasping with all your might
You can't take away my strength Fix these broken veins There's nothing left to fight (Live free or let me die) You can't take away my pride, I won't be denied There's nothing left to fight (Live free or let me die)
Do you remember how You became who you are now Do you remember how It felt to breathe without Gasping with all your might
You can't take away my strength Fix these broken veins Nothing left to fight
You can't take away my strength Fix these broken veins There's nothing left to fight (Live free or let me die) You can't take away my pride, I won't be denied There's nothing left to fight Nothing left to fight (Nothing left to fight) Live free or let me die Live free or let me die Live free or let me die
I don't remember the name of the video where I saw this, but there was a video on YouTube where John was being interviewed and he said that he wrote this because of 9/11. I think that it's about how Osama bin Laden believes in God, but he is betraying what God stands for.
i think this song is saying that we don't know the cost of turning on God and we all need to get our crap together...and the devil can't put us down (you can't take away my strength) Also the first line is "Death UNTIL the dust"
i love this song because it reminds me of how terrible life can get when i walk away form god, and it helps me to remember that i'm never invincible because god is the only one who can fix us.
This song is so great! i love it. I think that it is meaning that he is looking toward god but the devil is pulling him and binding him with sin. "Live free" and if he can't get out of the sin he wants to die "Or let me die". I think the term gasping with all your might refers to trying to get out of the sin and breathe god in. "Do you remember how You became who you are now Do you remember how It felt to breathe without Gasping with all your might" hes asking if we remember how we came to god willingly and by our own accord and we weren't forced to love him.
This is basically God telling satan just to GIVE UP! I mean seriously! Satan is just a little bitch who is trying waaayyy to hard to rise above God. EVEN THOUGH HE KNOWS HE ALREADY LOST!!!
@Evanecence2001, as if god wasn\'t badass enough!!
I\'m kinda bummed out that u can only listen to it on CD if u enhance Comatose Comes Alive. would of made a kickass title track for an original album.