They know what everybody knows
Better sit, a letter from a thief says
I lead when everybody sleeps
So feel the ways to cover up the old wounds
Lost in a finger frosted lie
These sensors medicating through it all.
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there
Faceless, so little there to judge
Left wing, let's separate the cold out
Opposites, we never need to tell
One's thing, I found I'm having to
I'm having to
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Solitude
Waste of a man
This fades as soon as the sun sets
I know all these fade or all that lives
Imagine here's a better feel
Told to dissolve or choose to fade
Or stay here
You'll live
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there
Better sit, a letter from a thief says
I lead when everybody sleeps
So feel the ways to cover up the old wounds
Lost in a finger frosted lie
These sensors medicating through it all.
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there
Faceless, so little there to judge
Left wing, let's separate the cold out
Opposites, we never need to tell
One's thing, I found I'm having to
I'm having to
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Solitude
Waste of a man
This fades as soon as the sun sets
I know all these fade or all that lives
Imagine here's a better feel
Told to dissolve or choose to fade
Or stay here
You'll live
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there
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Pete has said many times over that a majority of his songs are personal and about experiences he has had or the band has shared.
When their equipment was stolen, no clues were left, the band was asleep at a hotel, and of course Pete was very upset. These ideas can be found in the song like "Faceless, so little there to judge," "Why lead if everybody sleeps, So few ways to, Cover up the old ruins," and "This sends us medicating Through it all" respectively.
Here's how I see it.
The thief = solitude.... It being a "thief" because society typically views it as a "waste of man".... Society typically has a very negative view of solitude, and paints it as depression, etc.
Solitude: people either try to get rid of it (dissolve), just wait for the next emotion (choose to fade)...or learn to appreciate it (allow it stay, learn to control it and hide their desire for it)
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"Lost in, a finger forced in lie. This sends us medicating through it all"
The lie being that solitude is a thief... that the emotion is a "waste of man"... and how people typically interpret the desire for solitude as depression and choose to medicate themselves for it.
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"If you ever enter my mind. Stay there, you'll learn. To fend it off, and fool them all. Stay there"
People are "fooling" each other about not having the desire to experience solitude
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"If you ever enter my mind. Stay there, you'll learn. To fend it off, and fool them all."
This is saying, if the desire for solitude ever enters his mind, he wants it to stay there and learn to fend off societies desire to push us in the opposite direction (society tends to paint solitude as being bad.. or as depression..).. He is saying he can learn to appreciate solitude and embrace it, while feigning enough that society isn't "worried about him"... (like we typically worry about people who enjoy solitude "too much")
the song is about a thief, who was forced into a life he didnt want by cirumstances he cant control
i lead when everybody sleeps- obvious, a thief does their work at night
so few ways to cover up the old ruins- the man has emotional damage from the past that he can only hide for so long
lost in a finger forced to lie, this sends us medicating- he's forced to live a dishonest life, does drugs to cope
if you ever enter my mind, stay there - (spoken as the thief) see it from my side, either defend being a thief, or fool them into thinking youre honest, either way youd do the same thing if you were in my position
solitude, waste of a man- no friends, no family, dishonest living, he's nothing, he has nothing
this fades as soon as the sun sets- once night comes around, its time for him to go to work stealing, so at night he;s the king, whatever he wants he can take
i now own this fatal role that lives- im not sure on this one, maybe he shouldnt be alive because of whatever circumstances forced him into this life
imagine here's a better feel- he doesnt like what he does, or who he is
told to dissolve- stop stealing
or choose to fade- or fade out of the world (go to prison)
or stay here- or get better at what he does
just my take on the song
I went with Defend it all because I think I hear that the most. Can't wait for the album to drop so we can read the lyrics. This maybe their best lyrical album yet.
"you'll learn" "to fend it off"
That was my first lyric. But the more I listen to it, I just sounds like live and fend it off after live I didn't think made since. Guess we will find out next week.
I think this is referring to how solitude suddenly becomes "acceptable" at night when everyone is supposed to be asleep....