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"
The afterbirth has barely dried
When the king of ruling time
Comes with a sickle in his hand
To devour
Devour
Descendant of chaos
Devour
Castrated father
Devour
Fear his overthrow
Devour
Swallowed his children whole
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
The prisoners rotting in their cells
Children of this godless hell
Digesting in acidic blood
The devoured
Devour
Descendant of chaos
Devour
Castrated father
Devour
Fear his overthrow
Devour
Swallowed his children whole
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
He Who Spawned The Furies
Served the genitals of his father
Creating such beauty: The Goddess Of Love
But the blood that fell to the ground
Made the erinyes
Solo: Matt
He Who Spawned The Furies
Solo: Corey
Wreathed with serpents
Eyes dripping blood
Winged tormentors of criminals
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
When the king of ruling time
Comes with a sickle in his hand
To devour
Devour
Descendant of chaos
Devour
Castrated father
Devour
Fear his overthrow
Devour
Swallowed his children whole
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
The prisoners rotting in their cells
Children of this godless hell
Digesting in acidic blood
The devoured
Devour
Descendant of chaos
Devour
Castrated father
Devour
Fear his overthrow
Devour
Swallowed his children whole
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
He Who Spawned The Furies
Served the genitals of his father
Creating such beauty: The Goddess Of Love
But the blood that fell to the ground
Made the erinyes
Solo: Matt
He Who Spawned The Furies
Solo: Corey
Wreathed with serpents
Eyes dripping blood
Winged tormentors of criminals
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
Lyrics submitted by Sonic Raider
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This song is about Iuppiters' fight against his father Saturnus [Castrated father, Swallowed his children whole]. Roman mythology
The tale was actually ripped off from the Greek Mythology. Jupiter's actual name was Zeus(Ζευς) and Saturnus' name's Cronus(ΚÏόνος), who had indeed castrated his father Uranus, following his mother Gaea's instructions.<br /> The tales were adopted by Romans when they had conquered Greece, 2nd-1st century BC, and became infuenced by the Greek culture and literature.<br /> <br /> Look it up
It sounds more like Cronus he ate his children for fear of them gaining power higher than his, his wife tricked him into eating a rock, he vomited the kids out and they were so overwhelmed with anger that they turned into the Furies
I could be wrong but It doesn't matter to me that much
You can also see this in the artwork to Shogun (the booklet). The painting "Saturn Devouring His Son" by Goya is imprinted.
You're both right. It just depends on what mythology you're looking at. In Greek mythology, it's Cronus and Zeus, but to the Romans it was Saturn and Jupiter. The two mythologies have a lot of crossover, just with different names. As for this song, it is absolutely killer! "The Crusade" was my first Trivium album, but I was going to pass on "Shogun" when I heard it was more in the style of the first two albums. Then I heard this song and decided to get the album.
i don't think its what the song was about but when i heard the lines take your teeth out of me I have just begun to breathe on my own, it really made me think about abortion. So i dunno maybe theres an undertone there or something.
wrong. epic fail.
wow your a dick -.-
The child would have to be born to breath so I don't think it would be abortion, so I'd agree more with the mythological meanings
As far as I can tell, the song is about Cronus. If I remember correctly, Cronus' father, Uranus, devoured his children, and upon learning such, Cronos severed the genitals of his father. As he threw the severed flesh into the sea, the drops of blood that fell to the ground spawned the Furies. That's how the story goes. The irony, in true Greek tragedy fashion, is that Cronus was doomed to repeat the same sin on his children, Zeus being the one who eventually castrates him for doing so.
There's really nothing else it could be about. If you want to start splitting hairs, Uranus was one of two original deities that had just been in existence, without having been born or created, or to put it another way, emerged from Chaos. Descendant of Chaos? Everyone making the connection here?
Grynch: Absolutely right! Just throwing a few more references in here... The Erinyes are the Greek equivalent of the Furies (see rock_hawk's post) The king of Ruling Time- Cronus/Chronos, Father Time, with the Scythe of Harvesting Creating such beauty: The Goddess of Love-- while the blood drops that fell from Uranus'...piece created the Furies, The seafoam from the impact of said piece formed into Aphrodite/Venus, the goddess of love! That's all I can tell, great job everyone!
This song is about the titan named Cronus, leader of the Golden Age who was afraid of being overthrown by his own children. As a consequence he devoured all of his children except Zeus as he was tricked by her wife, Rhea. Before his succession, his father Uranus was leading the Golden Age. He overthrew his father with the help of his mother Gaia. He severed the genitals of his father and the blood that flowed created different beings. The blood that fell to the sea created Aphrodite, the goddess of love. The blood which fell to the ground created Erinyes known as The Furies. These Erinyes were snake haired, bloodshot eyed, winged punishers of criminals.