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"
They provide their nectar and then I am released.
I am a grain of sand underneath the floor and so far out of reach, but I am safe from harm.
Against this shelter they are always hammering, against these ears they are always deafening.
I too know an angry language. Our pain is always accurate and striving to evade its only design.
It wants to strike you down to fall into its arms again.
Blood is thicker than water, but which one did you drink?
Oh...
What I know was divided and broken down by the ignorance of others.
Spoken from their lips, but with the lungs of another.
Sounds great but tastes like blood.
These rumor sessions are assembled by us all... by us all.
They are the earth and we are the breath of life.
Your pain is always accurate and striving to evade its only design.
I want to strike you down to fall into my arms again.
Blood is thicker than water, but which one did you drink... did you drink?
Put down that retribution. I don't need your absolution. Yeah...
Put down that retribution. I don't need your absolution.
Put down that retribution. I don't need your absolution... No... No... No...
I am a grain of sand underneath the floor and so far out of reach, but I am safe from harm.
Against this shelter they are always hammering, against these ears they are always deafening.
I too know an angry language. Our pain is always accurate and striving to evade its only design.
It wants to strike you down to fall into its arms again.
Blood is thicker than water, but which one did you drink?
Oh...
What I know was divided and broken down by the ignorance of others.
Spoken from their lips, but with the lungs of another.
Sounds great but tastes like blood.
These rumor sessions are assembled by us all... by us all.
They are the earth and we are the breath of life.
Your pain is always accurate and striving to evade its only design.
I want to strike you down to fall into my arms again.
Blood is thicker than water, but which one did you drink... did you drink?
Put down that retribution. I don't need your absolution. Yeah...
Put down that retribution. I don't need your absolution.
Put down that retribution. I don't need your absolution... No... No... No...
Lyrics submitted by stabbedbygrace
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I think the line "blood is thicker than water, but which one did you drink?" is a reference to the blood of Christ. It seems he is saying the blood of Christ is more important than water (a common earthly beverage).
To me, this is an obvious Christian song. "They are the earth, and we are the breath of life." He is making a comparison of earthly things vs. spiritual things.
I'm not sure what the meaning is overall, but maybe he is saying Christianity is more important than earthly things.
I don't know if I'll be able to express myself, but here we go:
I think this song is about how we are controlled by the media and other things.
We feel secure in our homes but we don't realize that we are "trapped" in an invisible prison.
They control our pain to keep us always under their control (arms).
"What I know was divided and broken down by the ignorance of others. Spoken from their lips, but with the lungs of another. Sounds great but tastes like blood. These rumor sessions are assembled by us all."
Facts are usually distorted due to bad faith or simply ignorance of someone (distorted even by the News Media). So we don't actually know the truth. These rumors leaves us lost.
"They are the earth and we are the breath of life."
I agree with holdenh13 when he said "He is making a comparison of earthly things vs. spiritual things." We can't let ourselves be driven by these things. We are here to bring life and heal this world.
PS: Sorry for my bad english =)
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I think this song sounds all too much like "Under A Killing Moon" by Thrice... anyone else with me?
I created an account just to reply to this! Long-time Thrice fan...damn near did a double take when I heard this song. lol
haha i've totally been thinking this for like a year now and I thought I was the only one :D