This Shattered Symphony Lyrics

Lyric discussion by CoandCamFan 

Cover art for This Shattered Symphony lyrics by Coheed and Cambria

This song is about Dr. Leonard Hoehnberger making the Monstar virus and implanting it within Coheed and Cambria in order to get his wife Pearl back from Wilhelm Ryan. He can't live without his one love (Pearl) so he creates the great disaster (monstar). They (coheed and cambria) offered their hearts, and we tore them apart, is stating his obvious betrayal to the very meaning of creating the KBI in the first place. The chorus is about after he made the virus and gave it to Wilhelm Ryan, Pearl was given a gun to kill her husband for allowing such a destructive virus which could kill the entire Keywork to be traded for her life. She didn't realize however that Hohenberger had implanted the virus in such a way that Ryan couldn't use it right away, and Hohenberger was trying to explain this to Pearl. Second verse is talking about how he silenced Cambria as she was telling coheed that she loved him, and hating himself for taking away their love to save his own.