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ScotTaco

2014-06-01 03:48:09

MilkForWhales

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2009-12-11 02:40:30

6 Meanings

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by femme_en_gris

15y ago

I think it's the story of someone who found someone who cut herself (by accident or as suicide) and feels he should save her, but he's too scared to do anything. Instead, he tries to pass this burden to someone else, looking for it in the worst places possible, secretly wishing she'd die soon and let him free from this obligation. And then he discovers she's alive and, even worse, awake, and can testimony he's cowardice and lack of morals.

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by Cam-win 15y ago

Couldn'tve said it better myself.

by bigmark243 15y ago

When I listened to this song the first time, I thought how haunted the narrator telling the story must be. His voice is heavy with regret but not because he could not save 'her' from someone else. I think he succumbed to his inner demons and is undergoing a psychosis where he is splitting within himself, devolving into the killer that he fear he is becoming.

That is why the song ends with 'her' being alive in spite of his actions. The last rock, as all the rocks symbolize him trying to fight off his urges... which he was...