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"
In the dark, come out and play
We are its child-, here to stay
Running through, hungry for stray
No invitat-, take me away
I'm not cruel, still what you see
Club to club, city with me
Hungry for life, -out your pity
I don't want, you give it
Still can't say she won't start up
Still can't say she won't start up a fight
You go the city
'Cause in the city of life she can't, she can't wait
In the dark, killer await
To kill a life, life you make
You do another, death can live
Just keep on dan-, movie you're in (I'm not cruel)
Smell of your sweat, lures me in
Your heart-, things to me
Running feet, through my blood
My ghost inside you soon will be
Still can't say she won't start up
Still can't say she won't start up a fight
You go city
'Cause in the city of life she can't, she can't wait
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
I don't want sex, but you give it
Still can't say she won't start up
Still can't say she won't start up a fight
You go city
'Cause in the city of life she can't, she can't wait
Still can't say she won't start up
Still can't say she won't start up a fight
You go city
'Cause in the city of life she can't, she can't wait
Now it's over, you've taken your life
Dark grows thin and left to hide
I don't regret it, but it's sad anyway
Now we're both dead and so scared of the black
This life of games and diligent trust
It's the things we do and the things we must
I'm now tired of being cussed
So go sleep forever end to dust
We are its child-, here to stay
Running through, hungry for stray
No invitat-, take me away
I'm not cruel, still what you see
Club to club, city with me
Hungry for life, -out your pity
I don't want, you give it
Still can't say she won't start up
Still can't say she won't start up a fight
You go the city
'Cause in the city of life she can't, she can't wait
In the dark, killer await
To kill a life, life you make
You do another, death can live
Just keep on dan-, movie you're in (I'm not cruel)
Smell of your sweat, lures me in
Your heart-, things to me
Running feet, through my blood
My ghost inside you soon will be
Still can't say she won't start up
Still can't say she won't start up a fight
You go city
'Cause in the city of life she can't, she can't wait
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
Hungry for strays, hungry for life, no invitat- your pity
I don't want sex, but you give it
Still can't say she won't start up
Still can't say she won't start up a fight
You go city
'Cause in the city of life she can't, she can't wait
Still can't say she won't start up
Still can't say she won't start up a fight
You go city
'Cause in the city of life she can't, she can't wait
Now it's over, you've taken your life
Dark grows thin and left to hide
I don't regret it, but it's sad anyway
Now we're both dead and so scared of the black
This life of games and diligent trust
It's the things we do and the things we must
I'm now tired of being cussed
So go sleep forever end to dust
Lyrics submitted by onwaardsailboat, edited by jittery101
Vanished Lyrics as written by Nicholas Routledge Tomek Archer
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Crystal Castles named this song like this to give us a clue to who he remixed......i think
"VANISHED"
now remove the "I" and "D" and you get this
"VAN SHE"
hahaha
This song of their has to have one of the coolest intros
the "???" is "i am not cruel" its just repeated
I'm pretty sure they're talking about how it starts off with a "SHAH" and then goes into the song. And I agree that it's fucking awesome.
I'm pretty sure they're talking about how it starts off with a "SHAH" and then goes into the song. And I agree that it's fucking awesome.
this is the 3rd verse for this song...this is one of the best song.
Now its over, You've taken your life The dark grows thin, And I'm left to hide I don't regret it, But its sad anyway Now were both dead, And scared of the black This life of games, And diligent trust Its the things we do, Or the things we must Im now tired of being cussed So go sleep forever end to dust
my interpretation for this song is some guy going out in the night and going to clubs (In the dark, come out and play we are its child, here to stay) and when they are dancing they start to sweat and their bodies are touching each others and soon he will take her home (smell of your sweat, lures me in your heart sings to me running feet through my blood my ghost inside you soon will be) he had sex with her and doesn' it and now they will go their ways and forget what happen (Now its over, You've taken your life The dark grows thin, And I'm left to hide I don't regret it,...Im now tired of being cussed So go sleep forever end to dust) thats my interpretation of this song
I agree mostly. But maybe the girl feels compelled to sleep with the guy because she feels that is what he wants even though he's okay with just loving her. So, I think she kills herself (literally or metaphorically) because she's tired of having to go through all that. And in the end he's just talking about the guilt and the tragedy of being a guy who certain women feel they just need to fuck to keep happy.<br /> <br /> But then again, I think we interpret these songs based on our own lives and perspectives.
Like someone else said...
VANISHED - I/D = VAN SHE just like how they took the Van She song and subtracted certain parts of the lyrics out of it. Tricky CC
a cool part about this song is that the end is the same as the beginning, as in you could play it on repeat and it wouldn't sound like a new song
That IS what I do haha xD....
They did that on purpose. They're druggies.. they know when you're on real drugs you literally want to hear this on repeat.
wHAT A GREAT SONG =D ♥
some of these lyrics seem off, but this song is amazing. maybe better than crimewave, I can't decide yet.
Anyway, I think this song is from the point of view a boy who is in love with a girl, but they party a lot and are really into night life, and soon she starts getting caught up in drugs and gets addicted and basically starts killing herself with them
"In the darkness, A killer awaits To kill a life, And the lies you make You do another, So this death can live" the killer is the drug, and they may or may not already be in a relationship, and she keeps lying to him about the drugs and how much she's doing, but he's so caught up in the party scene that he doesn't really know how to help her either.
this is a song from Van She's "Sex City" just remixed by cc. i don't know but this version is way awesome.
van she's 'sex city'. they do an awesome job.
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