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"
We're now up here alone
Terror on the intercom, can someone save us?
Systems malfunction
Blast it, this damn machine
Over and out captain
Something lurks, creeps
On the counter top somewhere behind you
Parasitic cyst, I can't stand to watch
It's coming up and out of your chest
Remember when we were young?
Sit up right on the table
A photograph of earth feeding me a way back
Frightened, I tear alone, or maybe not the only one there
Hello, hello? When it rings, will you answer?
There, corner tall, short stance
It's you, come on kill me
You made a good friend to me
But while you were outnumbered and torn
You made us do things
Oh, dear god, I don't feel alive
When you're cut short of misery
Will you pray it be the end?
Give a look of surprised, wide eyes to me
Then you'll know just what I am
The scare that triggers your fear
Come know me in a different light now
Come know me as god
You made a good friend to me
But while you were outnumbered and torn
You made us do things to you
Run sand hourglass
When it's my time, will I be worth?
Spin round carousel
When your horse isn't screwed in
Oh, dear god, I don't feel alive
When you're cut short of misery (raise forth lost cause)
Will you pray it be the end?
Give a look surprised, wide eyes to me (raise forth lost cause)
Then you'll know just what I am (subtle demise the legitimate cry)
The scare that triggers your fear
Come know me in a different light now
Come know me as god (raise forth lost cause)
Terror on the intercom, can someone save us?
Systems malfunction
Blast it, this damn machine
Over and out captain
Something lurks, creeps
On the counter top somewhere behind you
Parasitic cyst, I can't stand to watch
It's coming up and out of your chest
Remember when we were young?
Sit up right on the table
A photograph of earth feeding me a way back
Frightened, I tear alone, or maybe not the only one there
Hello, hello? When it rings, will you answer?
There, corner tall, short stance
It's you, come on kill me
You made a good friend to me
But while you were outnumbered and torn
You made us do things
Oh, dear god, I don't feel alive
When you're cut short of misery
Will you pray it be the end?
Give a look of surprised, wide eyes to me
Then you'll know just what I am
The scare that triggers your fear
Come know me in a different light now
Come know me as god
You made a good friend to me
But while you were outnumbered and torn
You made us do things to you
Run sand hourglass
When it's my time, will I be worth?
Spin round carousel
When your horse isn't screwed in
Oh, dear god, I don't feel alive
When you're cut short of misery (raise forth lost cause)
Will you pray it be the end?
Give a look surprised, wide eyes to me (raise forth lost cause)
Then you'll know just what I am (subtle demise the legitimate cry)
The scare that triggers your fear
Come know me in a different light now
Come know me as god (raise forth lost cause)
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Delirium Trigger Lyrics as written by Travis Stever Claudio Sanchez
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Delirium Trigger takes place on a space ship, and mostly deals with Coheed. However, yes it references the movie Aliens. Claudio likes to do this, when he writes songs, he will give a double meaning and reference it to many other things. For example, Coheed and Cambria's last name is Kilgannon (from Zelda!) and the song 33 can be referenced to Patrick Ewing of the NY Knicks.
In this song, the narrator is someone on the ship, probably and old-friend of Coheed. (who allows him onto the ship ~ because Coheed was on the run.) Coheed has calmed down after what happened in Everything Evil ~ however, he's hit with the parasitic cyst (the dragonfly on the cover of the album) which turns him back into the Monstar (Everything Evil). The verses are sung by this friend of Coheed, and how they were able to catch him while he was a monstar but now he escaped and is killing everyone.
The chorus is from coheed's point of view, and pretty much so very explanatory. It's a very agressive chorus, "Give a look surprise wide eyed to me. . ." and "the scare that triggers your fear. . ."
This all leads to Hearshot Kid Disaster when Coheed arrives on earth and fucks things up there.
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