Idling the blood could be referring to quelling or suppressing anger and despair. It's obvious that this song deals with some sort of betrayal, and I would guess that it's a betrayal by another individual since there is the line 'O you personify loss and remorse'.
The narrator viewed a certain person one way, but that person turned out to be "the cancer that just moved in", whether it's literally or figuratively moving in. It also could be that the narrator never viewed the individual in a positive light because of some information that he was privy to,yet the antagonist has an unhealthy attachment to the narrator.
"You come without the dark night of the soul"...This is an interesting line because 'dark night of the soul' is a phrase that I've seen/heard several times, the first being on Fear Factory's "Timelessness". I'm not sure exactly what it means, but for me it connotes the darkness that creeps into one's psyche as a result of experience. Added knowledge and insight has its own brightness, but with that radiance is a long-lasting darkness. You can equate it with the loss of innocence. This narrator appreciates the antagonist's innate goodness, naivete, etc. but he/she has also hurt him.
Idling the blood could be referring to quelling or suppressing anger and despair. It's obvious that this song deals with some sort of betrayal, and I would guess that it's a betrayal by another individual since there is the line 'O you personify loss and remorse'.
The narrator viewed a certain person one way, but that person turned out to be "the cancer that just moved in", whether it's literally or figuratively moving in. It also could be that the narrator never viewed the individual in a positive light because of some information that he was privy to,yet the antagonist has an unhealthy attachment to the narrator.
"You come without the dark night of the soul"...This is an interesting line because 'dark night of the soul' is a phrase that I've seen/heard several times, the first being on Fear Factory's "Timelessness". I'm not sure exactly what it means, but for me it connotes the darkness that creeps into one's psyche as a result of experience. Added knowledge and insight has its own brightness, but with that radiance is a long-lasting darkness. You can equate it with the loss of innocence. This narrator appreciates the antagonist's innate goodness, naivete, etc. but he/she has also hurt him.