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"
It took a lot to sell my soul
The same thing happened yesterday
I paid my price, then felt alive
But no pulse is within my veins
Never will I lie and say I'm still alive
Come what may to me, there's something on my side
I'm left with heart, 'cause inside me's gone
Compulsion drives me anyway
I play my part and my part is large
Makes me stronger every day
Never will I lie and say I'm still alive
Come what may to me, there's something on my side
One year and it ain't so bad
I'm trying to see things clearly
The clearer it gets, the more I'm confused
I'm thinking more about blindness
Thinking hard about blindness
Thinking purely of blindness
There's something on my side
There's something on my side
There's something on my side
There's something on my side
The same thing happened yesterday
I paid my price, then felt alive
But no pulse is within my veins
Never will I lie and say I'm still alive
Come what may to me, there's something on my side
I'm left with heart, 'cause inside me's gone
Compulsion drives me anyway
I play my part and my part is large
Makes me stronger every day
Never will I lie and say I'm still alive
Come what may to me, there's something on my side
One year and it ain't so bad
I'm trying to see things clearly
The clearer it gets, the more I'm confused
I'm thinking more about blindness
Thinking hard about blindness
Thinking purely of blindness
There's something on my side
There's something on my side
There's something on my side
There's something on my side
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There's Something on My Side Lyrics as written by Bower Anselmo
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I love how it kicks into the last stanza.
this song fuckin' cuts
werd
I think this song is about drugs, like several other Down songs. Either, it's fucking amazing, especially the riff on the third verse, that's fucking brutal!
I'm left with heart, 'cause inside me's gone(COLD) Compulsion drives me anyway I play my part, and my part is large Makin'(MAKES) me stronger every day
I think that's correct anyway. This song is unbelievabley bad ass. I can't believe there arent more comments. I would say tis song is definently about smack.
this song kicks ass especially "One year and it aint so bad I'm trying to see things clearly The clearer it gets the more I'm confused I'm thinking more about blindness" till the end, just fuckin rocks
definately one of their greatest songs! he says that "compulsion drives me anyway" so I think he means that over the long agony of life you can't avoid compulsion and things that don't let you be yourself, that's why inside him's gone.
It is about drugs. Its alot about the saying "whatever doesnt kill you only makes you stronger" but he knows its killing him. Necrophage is right, the end is amazing. But for once i agree with people, tis about addiction.
this song is about phil wondering wuts kept him alive all these years, hes looking back and wondering how he survived a drug overdose and everything else so he comes to the conclusion that something is on his side