All Misery Lyrics
I take this as a man who's direly depressed (as to the reference to laying on the track-railroad tracks) who's awaiting his destruction. He's deep in deep black water and as he tells his story to this girl, he's crying more and more drowning in this water of depression as she just continues to rise up. He's trying his best to become less depressed "I did all I did just to get through to heaven", where heaven is the peak of happiness. "Little girls might twitch at the way I itch" he continues to live in depression which is just the way he happens to go "..but when I burn it's a son of a bitch" and the more the pain hurts, the more it kills him.
He's trying to hold on until the misery's gone from the relationship.
The reference to water is a sense of suffocation, deep black water, as of drowning in his own depression. He's in such pain he's pleading to this girl not to let him down.. But then she does and wishes she was the one he drowned to make her testify but instead pleads to be shaken into the deep black water to finally drown himself and be done with the pain she brought on to him.
<i>[The following paragraph is about the next song, <a href="http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858708038/">Flowers</a>; I split the lyrics - Mod.]</i>
He wants to tell this girl his story so that she could save him after all the pain she's brought him to. Dreams are made through things we see and absorb during the day, including our subconscious, so the reference to this dream, "I woke up I was crying. I saw an animal, with eyes like mine on fire" he's eyes are burning from all the bullshit lies he's gotten and is in rage. He believes that their relationship could be like a sullen flower and grow. It would be sullen of course because it takes time to get over her lies and be content. The dream continues, "And then from far away, who's that I see come riding? Upon a pale white horse, come riding fast as lightning" She comes on this beautiful white (which stands for pure and good) horse, which means she comes back and saves him from drowning in this pain. But this is all just what he dreams for.
If only she could hear his story so that she'd might save him.
They look pretty right to me. Good job. Need to get the title changed tho - it's All Misery Flowers.
Best song on the album.
About giving up and drowning yourself I reckon.
the lyrics are unbelievable. it sounds like something william blake would write. it's nice to know there is some talent left in the world
This song reminds me a lot of Brother Justin's storyline in the show, "Carnivale," down to all the religious imagery, the parental problems, the apocalyptic imagery, and the true love who's a flower seller (forget-me-nots, lilies, roses, and....irises, perhaps?).
I think it's more about drugs than depression. Though of course, drug use/ abuse can cause depression.
"I did all I did just to get through to heaven" being high can be seen as a heaven
"Little girls might twitch at the way I itch" itch of drug craving or withdrawl
"If you could hear me love I'd tell to you my story To you and only you So love that you might save me" - she might save him from drug addiction
some of the lines strike my ears as being there primarily because they rhyme nicely:
"Would you leave me alone, my sweet Simone"
and
"Let's ride, suicide"
I actually don't like the use of the word "suicide" in the song. It sounds flippant to me