I think that this is basically a message to Christians...I'll start with verse one.
"Dreams are gone. Nightmares are here to stay." This obviously is just stating that something is in a bad state, perhaps the world or your life. "Not doing when you know is the greatest crime." This is really the line that makes me think these lyrics mean what I said. Not telling people about Jesus when you know he is the savior of everyone who believes in him is the greatest crime. "Wake up spilling hatred for each other everywhere." Just saying that humans are so prone to hatred against each other. "How cheap is your love? Lying to keep a peace." You say you love people, but you commit a lie of ommision by not telling them about Jesus. You do this because you think they'd think that you are wierd, or won't believe you, but since you're letting them go to hell, your love is cheap.
Alright, now for the pre-chorus.
"And oh how we’ve ended up in this place." You're in this place mentioned at the beginning of verse one, where "dreams are gone" and "nightmares are here to stay".
"This place we’re trapped by greed." You not telling others about Jesus is greedy, and you "end up in this place" trapped by that greed.
The whole chorus is passionate and sad, but even more so when you have a grasp of the lyrics:
"Who said this won’t be perfect
After all we know what’s right." Since you know what's right, and you know what you SHOULD do, this should be perfect. Unfortunately it's not perfect, because you don't act on what you know, and because of that people go to hell,
"And the sounds of bodies clashing" are
"enough to make them cry."
"You know this won’t be perfect
Even when it’s feeling right." Deep down you know that it's not perfect, know that you're doing something wrong.
"And the sounds of bodies crashing
Echo through the night."
OK...verse 2:
"Silence. Something’s not right in this house." The house is symbolic of the Earth. "This room I lay my head is haunted by mistakes." The room is symbolic of where you live, the area, where you go on a day-to-day basis. "Crimes of passion? Or was it the way they were raised?" Is it their fault that they're sinners, or was it the way that they were raised?
Then the pre-chorus/chorus again. And now for the very short verse 3:
"Darkness fills this as does the empty bottles." In remorse for you've done, you try to drown the pain with alcohol. "I wait for the day you come home. When this house is no longer standing." You wait for the return of Jesus and the rapture, when this world will no longer stand. Well, it will, but it won't be nearly the same after we come back from the seven years.
I think that this is basically a message to Christians...I'll start with verse one.
"Dreams are gone. Nightmares are here to stay." This obviously is just stating that something is in a bad state, perhaps the world or your life. "Not doing when you know is the greatest crime." This is really the line that makes me think these lyrics mean what I said. Not telling people about Jesus when you know he is the savior of everyone who believes in him is the greatest crime. "Wake up spilling hatred for each other everywhere." Just saying that humans are so prone to hatred against each other. "How cheap is your love? Lying to keep a peace." You say you love people, but you commit a lie of ommision by not telling them about Jesus. You do this because you think they'd think that you are wierd, or won't believe you, but since you're letting them go to hell, your love is cheap.
Alright, now for the pre-chorus.
"And oh how we’ve ended up in this place." You're in this place mentioned at the beginning of verse one, where "dreams are gone" and "nightmares are here to stay". "This place we’re trapped by greed." You not telling others about Jesus is greedy, and you "end up in this place" trapped by that greed.
The whole chorus is passionate and sad, but even more so when you have a grasp of the lyrics:
"Who said this won’t be perfect After all we know what’s right." Since you know what's right, and you know what you SHOULD do, this should be perfect. Unfortunately it's not perfect, because you don't act on what you know, and because of that people go to hell, "And the sounds of bodies clashing" are "enough to make them cry."
"You know this won’t be perfect Even when it’s feeling right." Deep down you know that it's not perfect, know that you're doing something wrong. "And the sounds of bodies crashing Echo through the night."
OK...verse 2:
"Silence. Something’s not right in this house." The house is symbolic of the Earth. "This room I lay my head is haunted by mistakes." The room is symbolic of where you live, the area, where you go on a day-to-day basis. "Crimes of passion? Or was it the way they were raised?" Is it their fault that they're sinners, or was it the way that they were raised?
Then the pre-chorus/chorus again. And now for the very short verse 3:
"Darkness fills this as does the empty bottles." In remorse for you've done, you try to drown the pain with alcohol. "I wait for the day you come home. When this house is no longer standing." You wait for the return of Jesus and the rapture, when this world will no longer stand. Well, it will, but it won't be nearly the same after we come back from the seven years.