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"
To rid the earth of the filth
To rid the earth of the lies
The will to rise above
Tearing my inside out
[Chorus]
I feel my soul go cold
Only the dead are smiling
To rid your heart of all lies
Their poison tongues, poison hearts
Burning cold
Now let the final darkness fall
[Chorus]
'The dream of the new disease
On wings of euphoria
Sucking terror from the needle scars'
Twenty two years of pain
And I can feel it closing in
The will to rise above
Tearing my insides out
[Chorus]
To rid the earth of the lies
The will to rise above
Tearing my inside out
[Chorus]
I feel my soul go cold
Only the dead are smiling
To rid your heart of all lies
Their poison tongues, poison hearts
Burning cold
Now let the final darkness fall
[Chorus]
'The dream of the new disease
On wings of euphoria
Sucking terror from the needle scars'
Twenty two years of pain
And I can feel it closing in
The will to rise above
Tearing my insides out
[Chorus]
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Almost every response said that it was about suicide. I really disagree, and find it very stereotyping of people to think that all metal songs are about suicide.
This song to me, is about awakening the self with a kind of painful honesty, and rising above a hypocritical society of denial. It isn't about dying at all, it's about living, awake and aware, in a world of people who are dead inside, mere robots fulfilling a routine of consumption and production.
@doktorj this is kinda what I thought too
I think it's more than just suicide, i think it's more about finding a release, which happens to be suicide. "The will to rise above"
Rise up into the next world? Assumably a better one, heaven concept kind of thing. "only the dead are smiling" I think that's saying the only thing that looks good to the speaker, is death, it's the only thing he finds happiness in.
That's my take atleast.
about having a disgust for life on earth and a desire to commit suicide
'i feel my soul go cold only the dead are smiling'
i can't work out if this is the coolest or lamest metal lyric i have heard in years.
just possibly it is both.
fuck yeah! METAL
great vocals on this song, he pawns anders friden and mikael stanne
Obviously this song is about me.
lololol @ c0ld0r
The Will to rise above a dead and robotic society and the dream of creating a new euphorian order. But constant failiur, being draged down. The pain of 22 years of will to rise above, but only the burning cold. Only the ones already lost and dead are smile. But he continues trying to break out, but the cold is closing in... Only darkness remains.
About being fed up with the world and suicide. I argee, RoboLuncheon.