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You Lost My Memory Lyrics
Unstoppable force and immovable object
Repel one another when by chance colliding
The Brownian-Motion within this love potion
Ensures our opinions are always dividing
I am from Mars my dear
You hail from Venus
A meeting star-crossed
Like the Sun and the Moon
Destined to let this cruel world
Come between us
Our last kiss eclipsed by a shadow at noon
A rose that is built
Out of music by moonlight
Petals stained ruby with nightingale blood
Cast down in disgust
To be crushed by a cart-wheel
Because of mere trivia misunderstood
We quest for a grail of illusive perfection
Each hoping we'll find it some glorious day
Yet gaze with remorse at our jaded reflection
That looks like The Picture Of Dorian Gray
[Chorus:]
Siamese Twins who were joined at the heart
Love's an affliction without a known remedy
Blunt-bladed fate
Deemed to cleave us apart
Emotional surgery pays no indemnity
Some seek release with effete anesthesia
Others adapt to the role of sworn enemy
You found nepenthe in cheap, sweet amnesia
It was far easier losing my memory
And the nightingale sang
"Sing love's lament
With a thorn at your breast
Impaled by her barb
Cruel and unforgiving
A million dead poets would gladly attest
Heartache's a keepsake
To remind us we're living."
[Chorus]
Repel one another when by chance colliding
The Brownian-Motion within this love potion
Ensures our opinions are always dividing
You hail from Venus
A meeting star-crossed
Like the Sun and the Moon
Come between us
Our last kiss eclipsed by a shadow at noon
A rose that is built
Petals stained ruby with nightingale blood
Cast down in disgust
To be crushed by a cart-wheel
We quest for a grail of illusive perfection
Each hoping we'll find it some glorious day
Yet gaze with remorse at our jaded reflection
That looks like The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Siamese Twins who were joined at the heart
Love's an affliction without a known remedy
Blunt-bladed fate
Deemed to cleave us apart
Emotional surgery pays no indemnity
Some seek release with effete anesthesia
Others adapt to the role of sworn enemy
You found nepenthe in cheap, sweet amnesia
It was far easier losing my memory
"Sing love's lament
With a thorn at your breast
Impaled by her barb
Cruel and unforgiving
A million dead poets would gladly attest
Heartache's a keepsake
To remind us we're living."
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The song is about loss and unrequited love, noting themes from Oscar Wilde's Nightingale and the Rose and Dorian Grey. Makes a statement on the nature of a love/relationship that's doomed to fail and the lengths people go to when splitting up.
Theme's cover the nature of people's breakups, ranging from emotional rage to the act of attempting to forget those they were romantically involved with to spare them from the pain.
In particular, The Nightingale and the Rose tells the tale of a short story where a student attempts to gain the affection of a Professor's Daughter by obtaining a rose. The student looks in his garden but can't find one, becoming distraught at the fact, a nightingale (bird) overhears this and chooses to sacrifice themself to create a rose for the student, singing while it does.
"A rose that is built Out of music by moonlight Petals stained ruby with nightingale blood Cast down in disgust To be crushed by a cart-wheel"
Because of mere trivia misunderstood
Only to find the Professor's Daughter isn't interested in the rose anymore and casts it down.
[Edit: Elaboration.]