I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Step into this picture, release all your light
I think God has gone mad here tonight
You can't believe your eyes, control is so hard to keep
Obsession can be hell from which you'll never be free
It's all for the taking, here tonight
Rip out your heart
I'll tear it apart
Throw it to the ground
All fall down
Where good girls go to die, that's where I'll be
Waiting for my love with my heart on my sleeve
Forget about the future, forget about the past
My heart beats so, my hands are cold, oh God make this moment last
You seek to fill me with virtues I lack
I'll turn your pure white wings to pure black
You've pushed too far and now you've lost control, can't you see?
You thought you were the master but you're down on your knees
It's all for the taking, here tonight
Rip out your heart
I'll tear it apart
Throw it to the ground
All fall down
Where good girls go to die, that's where I'll be
Waiting for my love with my heart on my sleeve
Forget about the future, forget about the past
My heart beats so, my hands are cold, oh God make this moment last
Where good girls go to die, that's where I'll be
Remembering our love as if it were a disease
Forget about the future, it wasn't meant to last
My heart beats slow my hands are cold - Oh God it's the end at last
I think God has gone mad here tonight
You can't believe your eyes, control is so hard to keep
Obsession can be hell from which you'll never be free
It's all for the taking, here tonight
Rip out your heart
I'll tear it apart
Throw it to the ground
All fall down
Where good girls go to die, that's where I'll be
Waiting for my love with my heart on my sleeve
Forget about the future, forget about the past
My heart beats so, my hands are cold, oh God make this moment last
You seek to fill me with virtues I lack
I'll turn your pure white wings to pure black
You've pushed too far and now you've lost control, can't you see?
You thought you were the master but you're down on your knees
It's all for the taking, here tonight
Rip out your heart
I'll tear it apart
Throw it to the ground
All fall down
Where good girls go to die, that's where I'll be
Waiting for my love with my heart on my sleeve
Forget about the future, forget about the past
My heart beats so, my hands are cold, oh God make this moment last
Where good girls go to die, that's where I'll be
Remembering our love as if it were a disease
Forget about the future, it wasn't meant to last
My heart beats slow my hands are cold - Oh God it's the end at last
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In my opinion, this song means much the same as the one chick above me. He takes this girl and they fall in love, he warps her mind and its over. (well basically)... but its an amazing song none the less
yes i agree with all of it.
but also i also think that when he leaves her i think she kill herself: "...My heart beats slow my hands are cold Oh God it's the end at last."
a girl, really pure and innocent fells in love with a "darker" man, her love changes her entire world as she "steps in this picture" and her "good side" is gone "release all your light" even the "darker" man cant understand the change of the girl and he thinks "god has gone mad" (to let her innocent girl fell in love with a darker man) the girl left heaven for the obsession's hell. The man now wants to take advantage of the girl's love for him and obviously seduces her, then the girl believes she can have the upper hand in the relationship and turn the man into a slave "thought you where the master" & "fill me with virtues i lack" But the man is now angry and no more want to make love with her (he never loved her i think) so he pushes her away claiming the relationship has no future (heart beats slow/hands are cold i think means he is very distant and without feelings)...1 of the explanations i give to this song probably stupid but oh well
The meaning is about a specific relationship Sean had that evntually turned bad and where he broke up with the girl - hence the lyrics "remembering our love as if it were a disease" at the end chorus, lyrics that REPLACE the normal chorus from earlier in the song that say quite the opposite. Jeez, people, come on! Again, Sean has said this in interviews. I don't understand why people don't understand that these songs are all based in reality.