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"
Many choose to find their hope in the thoughts of afterlife
When there is none to be found right here before we die
So I understand the feeling of helplessness
When we are just taught to wait here for death
Wait here for death
Wait for this suffering to end
Wait here for death
Wait for this suffering to end
We are not forgotten
For a kingdom is offered beyond that of golden streets
We can represent now what will one day be complete
Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled
And the powerless rise
This is a kingdom born upside-down
This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned
The "blessings" of excess are only a burden on us
It is a broken system where we just wait for death
It is a broken system where suffering can never end
Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled
And the powerless rise
This is a kingdom born upside-down
This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned
If helplessness is our system
Then we're better off upside-down
When there is none to be found right here before we die
So I understand the feeling of helplessness
When we are just taught to wait here for death
Wait here for death
Wait for this suffering to end
Wait here for death
Wait for this suffering to end
We are not forgotten
For a kingdom is offered beyond that of golden streets
We can represent now what will one day be complete
Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled
And the powerless rise
This is a kingdom born upside-down
This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned
The "blessings" of excess are only a burden on us
It is a broken system where we just wait for death
It is a broken system where suffering can never end
Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled
And the powerless rise
This is a kingdom born upside-down
This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned
If helplessness is our system
Then we're better off upside-down
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Upside Down Kingdom Lyrics as written by Josh Gilbert Jordan D. Mancino
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beginning sounds alot like The God That Failed by Metallica. Was this intentional?
I thought so too
This song is no doubt about Heaven
wow!im d 1st 2 comment!!!well alredy got dis song n it's awesome....typical as i lay dying....cant say its the best tho...everything aild makes is THE BEST.....
metal4ever119 i cudnt agree with u more im not sure what the songs about but dude they are one of the best metalcore bands ever every album is fucking great 2nd COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
take that back its pretty self explanatory on what its about
YOU ALL ARE SO DAMN STUPID! ITS NOT GOD ITS LUCIFER. Guyya your the dumbest of all. <br /> <br /> Many choose to find their hope in the thoughts of afterlife,<br /> when there is none to be found right here before we die.<br /> So I understand the feeling of helplessness,<br /> when we are just taught to wait here...wait here for death<br /> <br /> people like to think where theyll go when they die. if you live like this band portrays, Hell is your destination. if you so take pride in your destination and follow lucifer, you will be crowned not burned. "this is a kingdom where the BROKEN are crowned" not the HOLY Idiot. <br /> <br /> Wait here for death. Wait for this suffering to end.<br /> Wait here for death. Wait here for death. Wait for this suffering to end<br /> <br /> SATANISMS KEY AMBITION IS DEATH. BECAUSE IF YOU ARE A FOLLOWER, IN HELL YOU WILL BE A HUMAN GOD. (ever wander how chris angel and david blaine have powers) you want to die, thats why they say wait on earth for death. and the suffering will end, simply because you WANT to go to hell and if you have what you want your are no longer suffering. <br /> <br /> We are not forgotten, for a kingdom is offered beyond that of golden streets.<br /> We can represent now what will one day be complete. OHH GUYYA THIS ONE GOT ME AND TOLD ME HOW BLINDED BY FALSE LIGHT YOU REALLY ARE. <br /> <br /> the dead are not forgotten because their is a kingdom offered "BEYOND THOSE OF GOLDEN STREETS" he is saying hell is a stronger place than heaven. "WE CAN REPORESENT NOW WHAT WILL ONE DAY BE COMPLETE" hells alliegience will destroy god. <br /> <br /> Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled<br /> and the powerless rise (and the powerless rise).<br /> This is a kingdom born upside-down.<br /> This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned<br /> <br /> LETS ALL THINK ABOUT WHAT SIMPLICITY REALLY MEANS. IT MEANS YOUR VERRY SMART AND THAT EVEN THE MOST COMPLICATED IDEALS OF LIFE CAN BE FIGURED. Simple, . think about hannibal lector lol. he is also a living demon. they say simplicity,(the power and gift of being a genius)is not a curse, but a gift. this is a kingdom borne upside down, not right side up. ive said enough you all are idiots. im wasting time typing, you all will burn not me:) im in the army, the innocent are just our weapons.
"We are not forgotten, for a kingdom is offered beyond that of golden streets. We can represent now what will one day be complete."
i think this is talking about how we are supposed to go spread the gospel so that others will be able to walk the golden streets of heaven.... and we can be a good witness for those who do not believe (hence "we can represent now that will one day be complete")
"Simplicity is not a curse where strength is humbled and the powerless rise (and the powerless rise). This is a kingdom born upside-down. This is a kingdom where the broken are crowned"
ok there are soo many references where Jesus basically says that you must humble yourself!!!! He says you must have the faith of a child, He says how it is hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven (because of their money they usually dont think they need God for anything) and the reference that i normally think of first when listening to this song is "blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth"
"If helplessness is our system then we�re better off upside-down." this is saying how this world is broken... where the rich and powerful are exalted and the broken are cast down.... but one day this will be fixed.... im not saying that everyone who has money is evil but that many of them are not humble enough to ask God for forgiveness for their sins and if their sins are not forgiven then they will be excluded from Christ's kingdom
You dont think that it could possibly take on a more general sense rather than strictly and devoutly based on Christianity?
My interpratation of this song is that it is a piece on the clash between the western religions, their influence on society and the former owner of Standard Oil, John D. Rockafeller. Or Carnegie and US Steel. Or even Microsoft's Bill Gates, though he is certainly much more charitable then the other two of his own volition. The teachings of the judeo-christian religion are filled with preaching about how one must not put themselves first, but instead be concerned about one's neighbor. One must be humble. One must self-sacrifice now and give to others so that they may attain Heaven. So we sit here, while we are biologically alive, concerned with the 'whats next" that our faith teaches us to anticipate. And we live in fear. Fear of things we cannot see, cannot touch, taste, or feel. Words triumph over our spirit, over our minds. What if we do something wrong? That depends on your faith. What if you choose to not be humble? What if you use the mind that God gave you and attain greatness through honest means? What if you amass a huge fortune by legitimate methods? Are you evil? What if you decide to enjoy the fruits of your labor, you are no longer humble. But you are attaining Heaven before death. The blessings of excess. However, what about thy neighbor? What if he suffers and you do not? What if he is lazy, conniving, and jealous of your success? By whose authority must you share with him? Today's society demands that you do so, society's irrational theory that need is greater than achievement. If you don't share, you are vilified and labeled greedy and unaltruistic. The evil barons of industry, and their money. They should be put in their place, and share what they have with the rest of us. Taxes and tariffs and unionization see to it. The powerless inherit the powerful's success without lifting a finger. If helplessness is our current system (and we know where that's taking us, just look at the west's economies, and the welfare states we are all sliding into), then we're better off upside-down. Atleast the barons didn't give our rightfully earned awards away when they had power. Suffering can end, if only everyone were willing to work toward that end. If the meak shall inherit the earth, it will only be when they help themselves and put forth the honest effort to attain it, only then will they be powerful.