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"
Everything changed and will all change again
Sun sheds the light as the life sheds its skin
You kiss your wish to the heart of the world
Secrets you're safe with will not break the spell
Come on, lets go home
Buried in your womb
Sing a song of death
'Til there's none left
Love comes close
But chooses to spare me
Death comes close
But ceases to take me
I want to twist, the knife a bit deeper
To siphon the love from the hearts I believed in
Look outside, world is exploding
Stay inside, still never knowing
Taking cover, with each other
Sleeping off the century of hope
Every days changing will remain the same
Silhouettes shy as the rain rots the drain
Every days decay debases the dream
The ghosts that will haunt you are not what they seem
Still you say you're dead
To depravity
But that can't be true, 'cause I know you can hear me
Love comes close
But chooses to spare me
Death comes close
But ceases to take me
I want to twist, the knife a bit deeper
To siphon the love from the hearts I believed in
Look outside, world is exploding
Stay inside, still never knowing
Taking cover, with each other
Sleeping off a century of hope
Love comes close
But chooses to spare me
Death comes close
But ceases to take me
I want to twist, the knife a bit deeper
To siphon the love from the hearts I believed in
Look outside, world is exploding
Stay inside, still never knowing
Taking cover, with each other
Sleeping off a century of hope
Sun sheds the light as the life sheds its skin
You kiss your wish to the heart of the world
Secrets you're safe with will not break the spell
Come on, lets go home
Buried in your womb
Sing a song of death
'Til there's none left
Love comes close
But chooses to spare me
Death comes close
But ceases to take me
I want to twist, the knife a bit deeper
To siphon the love from the hearts I believed in
Look outside, world is exploding
Stay inside, still never knowing
Taking cover, with each other
Sleeping off the century of hope
Every days changing will remain the same
Silhouettes shy as the rain rots the drain
Every days decay debases the dream
The ghosts that will haunt you are not what they seem
Still you say you're dead
To depravity
But that can't be true, 'cause I know you can hear me
Love comes close
But chooses to spare me
Death comes close
But ceases to take me
I want to twist, the knife a bit deeper
To siphon the love from the hearts I believed in
Look outside, world is exploding
Stay inside, still never knowing
Taking cover, with each other
Sleeping off a century of hope
Love comes close
But chooses to spare me
Death comes close
But ceases to take me
I want to twist, the knife a bit deeper
To siphon the love from the hearts I believed in
Look outside, world is exploding
Stay inside, still never knowing
Taking cover, with each other
Sleeping off a century of hope
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New to this website but I thought I would post the actual lyrics for everyone
Everything changing will unchange again Sun sheds the light as the life sheds the skin You kiss your wish to the heart of the world The secrets you sleep with will not break the spell
Come on lets go home Buried in your room Sing a song of death Til there's no one left
Love comes close But chooses to spare me Death comes close But ceases to take me I want to twist the knife a bit deeper To siphon the love from the hearts I believed in
Look outside World is exploding Stay inside So never knowing Taking cover With each other Sleeping off a century of hope
Every days changing to remain the same Silhouettes shy as the rain runs the drain Everydays decay debases the dream The ghosts that will haunt you are not what they seem
Still you say your deaf To depravity But that can't be true Cause I know you can hear me
"Love comes close But Zeus to spare me Two comes close But Zeus is to take me"
Anyone know what this bit really is?
haha its not zeus. have you heard the song?
love comes close but chooses to spare me something comes close but ceases to take me
something= either love again or he says death or i don't know. penis.
Ahh guh. thank-you > < Tell me if you figure out anything else. I'm sure there're lots of other bits that are wrong.
my friend and i think that part, "single song of death" is "sing a song of death."
and that part where he's like, "still you say you're done", sounds to me like he says, "still you say you're dead, to deprevity but that can't be true..."
thats what i THINK though, the other parts you got down pretty nicely.
its probably getting annoying i keep commenting for corrections but fuck you.
i listened to this song right now and where he says, "to siphon the hearts of the leaves and" sounds to me like he says "to siphon the hearts of the weekends(or the weakened)"
alright i'm done.
I want to twist the knife a bit deeper<br /> To siphon the love from the hearts i've believed in
No need to be rude, It's not annoying, obviously I'd prefer the lyrics to be right. Feel free to submit some other songs for Cold Cave.
sorrrrry but last edit i swear.
love comes close but chooses to spare me DEATH comes close but ceases to take me.
i was on the cold cave myspace and they had alt. cover art that had that part, 'death comes close'.
I want to twist the knife a bit deeper To siphon the love from the hearts i've believed in
*Sleeping off a century of hope
(Not uh oh, lol)