Regret

Beautiful, deep and very emotional.. We can feel in his voice despair and sadness.. I think it's not about losing loved ones..

"Regret" - as it says - it's about regretting something what is done.. He done something bad to someone, or to himself... and now the memories are haunting him. He can't escape from the past..

And advice for all of you: The PAST is only a memory, the FUTURE is a dream. Only NOW is real. Live in the now!

I don't know exactly meaning of this song - i can tell that it's about losing person which means a lot, like many anathema's songs..

I love it. It express how i feel many times when i sit lonesome in my room, with no idea for anything.

Alternative 4 rocks. Thanks, Anathema for ur music..

Jesus, sheer beauty.

This song is beyond amazing.. I feel like I can sympathize with every word in one way or another. It just really resounds with me.

Totally agree with the post above! Pure beauty and emotion.

Why there are few comments for one of the greatest songs from one of the saddest bands ever?

It's about having done something to someone or yourself which involves someone else, that you regret and can't stop regretting. The memories of it still haunt you. But at the end of the song, it is said that the future is not set, and you can still have a chance in the future, but you must still cope with (that) regret (of the past).

Now, for a more personal interpretation of this song, since I feel I can really relate to it. Prepare for a lot of drama :P

For almost all of my time at high school (which has now come to an end) I've been in love with a certain girl. I sometimes managed to get over it, but it always came back. I used to be quite an insecure socially awkward dude back then, so contact was hard for me sometimes. And now, I feel as if there were certain signs or opportunities back then, but I didn't do anything with them then.

That's the regret I still cope with and still comes back to me a lot. But, like it is said in the end of the song, "the tide has turned", an opportunity has arisen, so there still is a chance. But until I can take this opportunity, and the possible opportunity that opportunity presents (opportunityception hehe), I still have to live with regret, and maybe even longer if that opportunity won't work.

There, had to spit that out, feels like an appointment with a psychologist, eh? :P

Thx to cosmicstorm aka messiah for the news flash about living in the NOW. It really echoed the one when monica says to rachel "you have to get closure!" and then rachel says"y didnt i think of that? Closure that's what i need!" but really this song is just about what it is. No judging. Its a state of sorrow and losin faith in alotta people and things