Lethean

Some of my interpretation is due to having seen the official video for the song on You Tube. But most of it is due to reading the lyrics and the tone in which they are sung in the song. I believe it is about the suicide of a girl who the person in the song is in love with - :::To weigh one's heart against the oncoming dark You left me with the pills We had plans but you couldn't make it Through the trees What took you so long The high grass What took you so long:::: this verse speaks to the suicide most directly...they swallowed a whole lot of pills and that was all that was left once the person finds the body of the girl they loved.

• To weigh one's heart against the oncoming dark :::here the person is forshadowing about what is to come, when his girl doesn't show after the plans they made he senses she has done something desperate (the oncoming dark). ::::Now October This time you won't be needing me::: this is the realization that the person is losing the one they love, can sense she is sad and may leave him or worse yet..end her own life. ::::Translate the fire The venom's rush inside your heart How long can winter Color your every word And the skyline Past the houses and the cities Hyperopia (a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball is too short or the lens cannot become round enough), causing difficulty focusing on near objects, and in extreme cases causing a sufferer to be unable to focus on objects at any distance.) Carmine red :::: This is the persons recalling how they saw things from their perspective, the unraveling of the one they loved..how she was becoming so dark and poisoned by her own depression, (venom's rush inside your heart) speaks to the darkest place her heart had reached and how he feared what would come if it got any colder, winter used to symbolize the coldness in her soul that she had that couldn't be thawed. Hyperopia Carmine Red (symbolizing blood, bleeding out, life ending)- this speaks to the ominous view he had from where he stood and how it wasn't all in focus but he was pretty sure he was getting the picture that she would end her life in the end.