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"
Starving searching this barren wasteland
Trying to grasp being this alone
Pleading for a breath of fresh air, someone's standing on my chest
Dying I'm asphyxiating myself
Break myself slave to my weakness choke on my words
Oh I'm drowning and I feel so alone
The lights are on and I wish I was home
My lips are screaming pretty nothings
My ears are bleeding for want of words, fuck words I need actions
Hope as left me fucking shattered
Someone's standing on my chest
Alone would be a pleasant change from here
How do you gauge loneliness how you ever felt so alone
It feels like the light will never reach me here
I am choking back my longing for shed tears
So strangulated by my lonesome fears plead
Don't worry too much, it only hurts when I breathe
Trying to grasp being this alone
Pleading for a breath of fresh air, someone's standing on my chest
Dying I'm asphyxiating myself
Break myself slave to my weakness choke on my words
Oh I'm drowning and I feel so alone
The lights are on and I wish I was home
My lips are screaming pretty nothings
My ears are bleeding for want of words, fuck words I need actions
Hope as left me fucking shattered
Someone's standing on my chest
Alone would be a pleasant change from here
How do you gauge loneliness how you ever felt so alone
It feels like the light will never reach me here
I am choking back my longing for shed tears
So strangulated by my lonesome fears plead
Don't worry too much, it only hurts when I breathe
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
Someone's Standing on My Chest Lyrics as written by Christopher Gordon Thomson Brandon Saller
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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did he feel alone? or is it just me? hehe.. love this song.
these guys are so awesome...its even better live ;)
Yeahh, they are radd live... i love the end of this song, "It Only Hurts When I Breathe." ahhh Beautiful
i don't think anyone gives these guys enough credit, they're a great band and every song on Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses is great
this is my favorite song from atreyu. well one of my favorites from atreyu.heh. atreyu is very very good! no lie.
yes, my favorite song. yes, they dont get any credit at all. they kick ass indeed
yes i feel alone :'(
this is the first atreyu song i ever heard, i heard it on a sample cd that came with thursday's full collapse... i started downloading their songs then bought the cd they are fucking awesome
xhopesfallx me too thats exactly what happened with me. i like the band waterdown on that cd. this is a great band, top 3 on my list. just look at my name and guess the other 2.
It feels like the light will never reach me here I am choking back my longing for shed tears So strangulated by my lonesome fears Please don't worry too much It only hurts when I breathe
amazing...atreyu is by far the best band I've ever heard...by far