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"
No more ifs, no bias, no ambiguity
No wondering whether this is it
Clarity, so brightly shining
The image so painfully absolute
No edges blurred on this awareness
No unknown weight to tip the knowledge scales
Eyes dilated to grasp it all
As every illusion of what we are fails
An unquestionable picture, determined, complete
Its crystalline lines untouched by doubt
So vivid, so deprived of hesitation
Shining in its evil splendor
The burning hatred of man
A million degrees on display
Human voracity delineated
The demons in us all by fumes portrayed
Stare, see, take in, grasp
Comprehend, assimilate
Behold your reflection
The framing gold plated lies
The canvas hurting souls caught and weaved
The artist, the human dream
Incinerated, devoured, deceived
No wondering whether this is it
Clarity, so brightly shining
The image so painfully absolute
No edges blurred on this awareness
No unknown weight to tip the knowledge scales
Eyes dilated to grasp it all
As every illusion of what we are fails
An unquestionable picture, determined, complete
Its crystalline lines untouched by doubt
So vivid, so deprived of hesitation
Shining in its evil splendor
The burning hatred of man
A million degrees on display
Human voracity delineated
The demons in us all by fumes portrayed
Stare, see, take in, grasp
Comprehend, assimilate
Behold your reflection
The framing gold plated lies
The canvas hurting souls caught and weaved
The artist, the human dream
Incinerated, devoured, deceived
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An arsonist?! :)
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This is about someone thinking to have seen the light. Like that person knows everything there is to know. Its concluded in the last part: "Its framing - gold plated lies The canvas - hurting souls caught and weaved The artist - the human dream Incinerated, devoured, deceived" People believe in lies, get hurt, and have dreams. All get Incinerated, devoured and deceived because that person knows for himself what is the truth now. Everything he thought to be true gets "Incinerated, devoured, deceived"
Its quite easy in the end ^^
I find this song to have a positive message :D Very happy if you think about it.
i think the message of this song is:
"There is no doubt (first three parts) about the fact that humans are a race full of burning hatred(The burning hatred of man).
The other lines in the last tree party, i don't now what that is about
Again, The Buddhist part, Egoless state, or any eastern view of Self. Take some philosophy
Its pretty kinda clear this song is about how human self hatred is evident BUT BUT BUT why is the name combustion?
@AChainOfFlowers combustion is in this case probably a not so obvious word for enlightening
Combustion, quite simple: It's a person unleashing his anger. I especially love the sentence: A million degrees on display Now that I think of it, its perhaps a bit less positive in a way, as it is about people being evil. The only positive thing is that it becomes so over obvious that you cannot deny it anymore, thus leaving it to people to solve it. Solving this evil I mean. The human dream is to live in a certain world interpreted by themselves, and now this interpretation gets Incinerated, leaving the protagonist just to look at things differently. Mainly this song is about someone discovering stuff thats new to him, things he would normally like, he now sees as evil, thus making him to change.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that the "eyes dilated..." part refers to the effect strong light (such as that emitted by a fire) has on the pupils.