This first part of this song is claudio trying to reply to a letter that newo sent him ("Slowly the pen touches paper, In the guidance of the words that you write") in which she asked if he was missing her (Is somebody thinking of you?). Claudio wants to tell Newo that he is hurt that she fooled around with Al the killer, but he can't find the words to say it because he is still deeply in love with her. However, he contemplates breaking up with her soon ("If you were to count the days left with your hands?"). He gazes at a photograph of them together and remembers how she used to hold the ladder for him when he climbed in through her window at night.
The subject changes in the next portion of the song, first he "speaks" to Coheed about Jesse ("Ignoring the words of your obnoxious little brother") then he thinks about what Ambellina has told him(""Kill or be killed," spilled the words from your mother") metaphorically Ambellina is Claudio's mother because she watches over him. He lays there thinking about the things affecting him.
He then becomes jelous and angry towards Al, saying that the fling Al and Newo had wouldn't last ("But you couldn't last a lifetime, Caught between here and the days of it") and assumes that Newo is caught between Al and himself. Claudio has distanced himself from Newo physically, but he can't distance himself from her emotionally ("I measured distance in lines, Departing the rest of my life") and he gets angry again thinking about Newo "having better things to do" i.e. fool around with Al. He calls her a liar.
Claudio feels overwhelmed, and considers suicide ("If you get put to sleep, Like an old dog, you're better off, If you get put to sleep") but he realises he has a job to do before he can die ("Allow this year before the world starts to end")
The final peice of the song is claudio reliving the moment Ambellina told him his father (and also his family) was dead. Claudio awoke from his dream in "Crowing" to find Ambellina crying and she informed him of his destiny. He is the mesiah and Ambellina tells him to "Pray for us all"
This first part of this song is claudio trying to reply to a letter that newo sent him ("Slowly the pen touches paper, In the guidance of the words that you write") in which she asked if he was missing her (Is somebody thinking of you?). Claudio wants to tell Newo that he is hurt that she fooled around with Al the killer, but he can't find the words to say it because he is still deeply in love with her. However, he contemplates breaking up with her soon ("If you were to count the days left with your hands?"). He gazes at a photograph of them together and remembers how she used to hold the ladder for him when he climbed in through her window at night.
The subject changes in the next portion of the song, first he "speaks" to Coheed about Jesse ("Ignoring the words of your obnoxious little brother") then he thinks about what Ambellina has told him(""Kill or be killed," spilled the words from your mother") metaphorically Ambellina is Claudio's mother because she watches over him. He lays there thinking about the things affecting him.
He then becomes jelous and angry towards Al, saying that the fling Al and Newo had wouldn't last ("But you couldn't last a lifetime, Caught between here and the days of it") and assumes that Newo is caught between Al and himself. Claudio has distanced himself from Newo physically, but he can't distance himself from her emotionally ("I measured distance in lines, Departing the rest of my life") and he gets angry again thinking about Newo "having better things to do" i.e. fool around with Al. He calls her a liar.
Claudio feels overwhelmed, and considers suicide ("If you get put to sleep, Like an old dog, you're better off, If you get put to sleep") but he realises he has a job to do before he can die ("Allow this year before the world starts to end")
The final peice of the song is claudio reliving the moment Ambellina told him his father (and also his family) was dead. Claudio awoke from his dream in "Crowing" to find Ambellina crying and she informed him of his destiny. He is the mesiah and Ambellina tells him to "Pray for us all"