To me, it sounds like he's singing about how one feels when one tries to take care of EVERYONE.
"No one lets everyone in" because it would just break them down.
The verses are basically explaining what you'll go through if you never take a rest from caring for others.
"Woe is me. The end is near, thought you'd never leave." sounds like this person has been caring for someone for a very long while, and seems a bit tired of it.
"Heart and teeth just to taste bittersweet. One last stain to get beneath the skin." the feeling he gets from having to take care of constantly more people is turning into a bittersweet taste, and it's more and more feeling like "just one more stain beneath the skin" everytime he decides spend his energy on yet another soul.
"The wish is drawn inside. The neverending sigh." The wish of the person he's helping has now become his own wish, but it all just adds to his neverending sigh, because this extreme level of empathy is tearing him down.
The second verse sounds like he's actually trying to draw a line to think of himself too, but it seems to end in failure.
Thinking about this song with this meaning in my mind just made it so much more kick ass. I think there's a lot of good people out there who can relate to this self-destructive pattern of living, and that HEAVY riff at the intro really sounds destructive enough to make me feel the immediate danger of living this way.
To me, it sounds like he's singing about how one feels when one tries to take care of EVERYONE. "No one lets everyone in" because it would just break them down.
The verses are basically explaining what you'll go through if you never take a rest from caring for others. "Woe is me. The end is near, thought you'd never leave." sounds like this person has been caring for someone for a very long while, and seems a bit tired of it. "Heart and teeth just to taste bittersweet. One last stain to get beneath the skin." the feeling he gets from having to take care of constantly more people is turning into a bittersweet taste, and it's more and more feeling like "just one more stain beneath the skin" everytime he decides spend his energy on yet another soul.
"The wish is drawn inside. The neverending sigh." The wish of the person he's helping has now become his own wish, but it all just adds to his neverending sigh, because this extreme level of empathy is tearing him down.
The second verse sounds like he's actually trying to draw a line to think of himself too, but it seems to end in failure.
Thinking about this song with this meaning in my mind just made it so much more kick ass. I think there's a lot of good people out there who can relate to this self-destructive pattern of living, and that HEAVY riff at the intro really sounds destructive enough to make me feel the immediate danger of living this way.