Wow, I had the lyrics and meaning very wrong in my head. For years I though the song was about two brothers or friends and one was getting molested / raped by his father. I always thought the friend was trying to get his friend to tell him what was going on as he can see symptoms in his friends behavior. I was sure it was an helpless, outside-looking-in perspective of a child being abused. So many lines made that idea make sense until I saw the posted lyrics. I know these are wrong now but at least read what I heard in my shoddy headphones so you don't think I'm too crazy:
Crush my bones tonight
So thin that they might slide under his door
Leave my heart for the world to see (he did this to me)
He thinks his friends are clueless as to the situation
He's found himself in
Buried beneath assaulted memories
So cough cough cough it up
Have you lost your breath
Or maybe that's me tearing out your lungs
Tell me how it feels
To know that this is just my dream
And it's your reality
(This verse is the friend begging him to tell him what's going on at home. He suspects that what might be happening [his dreams] but needs confirmation as it's a huge accusation.)
A scream pulls me
In the direction of my livingroom
A body laying on the floor
Looking at me with a blank, blank stare on his face
Does this seem familiar?
Does this seem familiar?
(The friend/ brother spending the night has heard the screams and comes out to find his friend on the floor just after another assault. The friend can no longer hide it.)
Wow, I had the lyrics and meaning very wrong in my head. For years I though the song was about two brothers or friends and one was getting molested / raped by his father. I always thought the friend was trying to get his friend to tell him what was going on as he can see symptoms in his friends behavior. I was sure it was an helpless, outside-looking-in perspective of a child being abused. So many lines made that idea make sense until I saw the posted lyrics. I know these are wrong now but at least read what I heard in my shoddy headphones so you don't think I'm too crazy:
Crush my bones tonight So thin that they might slide under his door Leave my heart for the world to see (he did this to me) He thinks his friends are clueless as to the situation He's found himself in Buried beneath assaulted memories
So cough cough cough it up Have you lost your breath Or maybe that's me tearing out your lungs Tell me how it feels To know that this is just my dream And it's your reality
(This verse is the friend begging him to tell him what's going on at home. He suspects that what might be happening [his dreams] but needs confirmation as it's a huge accusation.)
A scream pulls me In the direction of my livingroom A body laying on the floor Looking at me with a blank, blank stare on his face Does this seem familiar? Does this seem familiar?
(The friend/ brother spending the night has heard the screams and comes out to find his friend on the floor just after another assault. The friend can no longer hide it.)