It seems as though someone is or the person singing is talking of a person who is so dark-hearted, but they are trying to bring them back to the light, but theycouldn't be saved, because,
And in your man-made dark
The light inside you died
The last sliver of goodness, that could have brought them into the light, then died, and when it did, all hope for them was lost. This person is connected deeply in some way to the person singing, because they were the last person they could hold on to, which made them lonely from there on out.As in the lyric:
All my life I've been so lonely
All in the name of being holy
When they tried so hard to keep the dark-hearted other to hold on, and to be the person in the light, it failed. After this, the person singing starts to become dark-hearted herself, like the lyrics:
Oh we don't own our heavens now
We only own our hell
And if you don't know that by now
Then you don't know me that well
When he/she says (we) she/he means themselves, and the one that sent the ground crashing down all around her, in an emotional state. In the song she goes down a lot on the word, (well). This sounds dark-hearted, and then from that moment on they are both lost to the darkness. And in that lyric it seems as though nobody knows them, because people around the person singing thinks that she is still in the light side, until she frustratedily snarls at them, saying "I don't belong in this light, after all, I only own my hell, and since you don't know that, even after all this time, then you must not know me that well!" The lyrics also refer to this when it says,
Still, you'd like to think you know me
You keep buyin' stars
When she says You keep buyin' stars, she means that you go ahead and keep trying to bring me back to the light, even something of a miracle, won't bring me back from the dark in a million years.
And you could buy up all of the stars,
But it wouldn't change who you are
You're still living life in the dark
It's just who you are
It's just who you are
In this part, she now talks alone with her partner in the dark, the one that only owns his hell with her. She even though dark now, still tries, though half heartidly, because she knows she's doing it in vain. She tries to make him realize, as a trick almost, how dark he has become, and how he used to be. She says at last, almost like "Oh well, you know you could gather as much light as you want, and you will still be dark, after all, it's just what you are now."
You know only how to own me
You know only how to own me
This shows again that he's the only one who understands her, and she tells him so. When she you know only how to own me, it's a sense of understanding, he's the only one who knows her so well that he can be the only who knows her weakness, that can truly defeat her. Next comes the part that I call in my eyes, the darkest part.
You're buying stars to shut out the light
We come alone and then we die
This particular plot is interesting. This sparks an idea in her dark-hearted other. Something sinister. He tells her to come alone as in we come alone. To a place where his plan unfolds, she comes alone unarmed as asked. He then grits his teeth and says to her "You tried to shut out the light, and because you did this, you wanted to live miserablly with me, when you could have been fine,I can't stand another moment to see you like this." In this she stares back bewildered. He continues, "If you were really meant to live with me in the dark you would have chosen not to come alone. Because of your poor choice to come alone, you will die." And with this last word to her he uses her weakness to kill her. This is not nessesarily evil, he wanted to put her out her misery, because he knew she could never be truly happy alive with him now that he had done this.
And no matter how hard you try
I'll always belong in the sky
And you could buy up all of the stars,
But it wouldn't change who you are
You're still living life in the dark
Then as she gazes down at him from the stars, she says as if she could speak to him again, "No matter how hard you try, I always did belong in the light." Then she says same thing she said to him that one night. Then she goes on to repeat, it's just who you are, over and over. This echoes through his mind. We will never know what will happen then.
In short I believe the person singing is female, the one who first fell to the dark was male, and they were indeed lovers. These lyrics to me is of a tragic, fallen love story, that leads to a tragic end, and an unanswered call echoing out.
It seems as though someone is or the person singing is talking of a person who is so dark-hearted, but they are trying to bring them back to the light, but theycouldn't be saved, because,
And in your man-made dark The light inside you died
The last sliver of goodness, that could have brought them into the light, then died, and when it did, all hope for them was lost. This person is connected deeply in some way to the person singing, because they were the last person they could hold on to, which made them lonely from there on out.As in the lyric:
All my life I've been so lonely All in the name of being holy
When they tried so hard to keep the dark-hearted other to hold on, and to be the person in the light, it failed. After this, the person singing starts to become dark-hearted herself, like the lyrics:
Oh we don't own our heavens now We only own our hell And if you don't know that by now Then you don't know me that well
When he/she says (we) she/he means themselves, and the one that sent the ground crashing down all around her, in an emotional state. In the song she goes down a lot on the word, (well). This sounds dark-hearted, and then from that moment on they are both lost to the darkness. And in that lyric it seems as though nobody knows them, because people around the person singing thinks that she is still in the light side, until she frustratedily snarls at them, saying "I don't belong in this light, after all, I only own my hell, and since you don't know that, even after all this time, then you must not know me that well!" The lyrics also refer to this when it says,
Still, you'd like to think you know me You keep buyin' stars
When she says You keep buyin' stars, she means that you go ahead and keep trying to bring me back to the light, even something of a miracle, won't bring me back from the dark in a million years.
And you could buy up all of the stars, But it wouldn't change who you are You're still living life in the dark It's just who you are It's just who you are
In this part, she now talks alone with her partner in the dark, the one that only owns his hell with her. She even though dark now, still tries, though half heartidly, because she knows she's doing it in vain. She tries to make him realize, as a trick almost, how dark he has become, and how he used to be. She says at last, almost like "Oh well, you know you could gather as much light as you want, and you will still be dark, after all, it's just what you are now."
You know only how to own me You know only how to own me
This shows again that he's the only one who understands her, and she tells him so. When she you know only how to own me, it's a sense of understanding, he's the only one who knows her so well that he can be the only who knows her weakness, that can truly defeat her. Next comes the part that I call in my eyes, the darkest part.
You're buying stars to shut out the light We come alone and then we die
This particular plot is interesting. This sparks an idea in her dark-hearted other. Something sinister. He tells her to come alone as in we come alone. To a place where his plan unfolds, she comes alone unarmed as asked. He then grits his teeth and says to her "You tried to shut out the light, and because you did this, you wanted to live miserablly with me, when you could have been fine,I can't stand another moment to see you like this." In this she stares back bewildered. He continues, "If you were really meant to live with me in the dark you would have chosen not to come alone. Because of your poor choice to come alone, you will die." And with this last word to her he uses her weakness to kill her. This is not nessesarily evil, he wanted to put her out her misery, because he knew she could never be truly happy alive with him now that he had done this.
And no matter how hard you try I'll always belong in the sky
And you could buy up all of the stars, But it wouldn't change who you are You're still living life in the dark
Then as she gazes down at him from the stars, she says as if she could speak to him again, "No matter how hard you try, I always did belong in the light." Then she says same thing she said to him that one night. Then she goes on to repeat, it's just who you are, over and over. This echoes through his mind. We will never know what will happen then.
In short I believe the person singing is female, the one who first fell to the dark was male, and they were indeed lovers. These lyrics to me is of a tragic, fallen love story, that leads to a tragic end, and an unanswered call echoing out.