Vices Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ppoolliiss 

Cover art for Vices lyrics by Silverstein

From what i've thought the songs are like a story. In the first song a girl is abused until she's 6 and then the song end. And then Vices is the resume to the song before, it starts with a girl that's and 8 and get ignored by her mom. Then her mom realizes she's gone and she sell herself it seems because the one she did it with then lift up he's phone and it says Wife on the display and its not the mom on the display so it can't be her dad getting that. The next time she's shows up she's about 15. Then she walk to her dad and hes a alcoholic and drunk and start pushing her and hit her. Then it looks like he unzip his pants and start holding her but she run away. He was probably going to rape her because the lyrics say "I'm not coming home to you i won't sleep with the devil" wich should show that she was about to get raped and has been before, probably since she was a kid.

Song Meaning

Actually, the story is about a man who is betrayed by his wife. When he discovers that, he burns his house to the ground to kill her and her lover. Then he escapes and kills himself.

In this song, he finds out about the "love affair" between his wife and his friend.

The album was arranged for better flow. The story starts with Vices(He finds out his wife is cheating), then goes to American Dream (Him reflecting on it), to I knew I Couldn't Trust You (he learns that his best friend is his wife's lover and confronts him), to We Are Not the World (his wife convinces the court to give her the house and full custody of their daughter), to I Am The Arsonist (he burns down his old house with his wife and 6-year-old daughter still inside), to A Great Fire (he regrets trying to kill his them and...