Lyric discussion by Tsk8rKFF 

Cover art for For Want Of lyrics by Rites of Spring

Song's about (in my opinion). A guy that just experienced a break up, but still wishes for the past. The break up obviously wasn't mutual. he's looking back knowing that the relationship was bad for him, but it felt so good to care for someone he just doesn't give a f*ck. All he has now are the memories, and he'll live his own fantasies every night remembering and hopefully that's good enough for his ailing heart.

This is a very beautiful song. The way emo was and should always stay, drenched with emotion, powerful lyrics. When you're as anguished as Guy here. You just want to SCREAM, scream as if a million splinters are tearing at your heart propelled by the girl/guy you loved while looking at them with shocked eyes with a voice that pleads for them to stop screaming because they can't hear you while at the same time shrieking at how much of a bitch they are for forsaking your feelings like that.

so much raw emotion! Before the Jimmy Eay Worlds and Get up kids, and saves the days, emo bands like rites of spring and early fugazi screamed out the dark feelings of their heart, how shitty they feel inside, and in their shows would thrash around in a masochistic like manner with blood on the floor and petals scattering the ground proving to the one they once loved that they can attempt to hurt themselves more than they could ever hurt them, but to no avail. Rites of Spring scream and sing like a soul that's dying. Their songs should be forced through the ears of any ex that has hurt you.