I've been dreaming.
I was lucid.
I was dreaming blood was seeping from my pores.
Who'd believe that it was all my own decision?
Cracked faces and medicated smiles.
Set fire to my home before I turned and walked back in.
For even needle open my chest and insert ten pins.
I just anticipate what awaits when I awake... break.
I die in my daydreams.
The gardens have all been overgrown.
I pushed my hand through the thorns to crush the final rose.
A deadly secret only I suffer to know.
I can't eradicate what awaits when I awake... break.
I die in my day dreams.



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    My Interpretation:I believe the song is about the dreams anti-depressant/anti-anxiety meds (klonopin/xaxax/atavan) have been know to cause. "Lucid dreams...", "Medicated Smiles..." And the nightmare (depression) that doesn't end when you wake up.
    Flag tranzparentmethodson November 12, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Hmmm...It wouldn't surprise me if he was writing about lucid dreams or an OBE. Hasn't the singer been pagan before? Pagans are often drawn to metaphysics.
    Flag SomewhereCaughtBetweenon January 26, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:saying that this song is about depression is a little vague, don't you think? this song is about a destructive decision that was made... consequently destroying a dream he had for the future:
    "Set fire to my home before I turned and walked back in."

    yall are focusing too much on the gory diction used... he may not be specifically referring to self mutilation here; ever hear of a thing called imagery?
    Flag yellieeon December 26, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:saying that this song is about depression is a little vague, don't you think? this song is about a destructive decision that was made... consequently destroying a dream he had for the future:
    "Set fire to my home before I turned and walked back in."

    yall are focusing too much on the gory diction used... he may not be specifically referring to self mutilation here; ever hear of a thing called imagery?
    Flag yellieeon December 26, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I think the interpretations on lucid dreams make a lot of sense, as do the ones about self mutilatoin, I'll just add my two cents.


    Davey sings "who would believe it was all my own decision", this could either mean he keeps himself feeling terrible and depressed for some reason(possibly guilt), or it means he puts himself through something terrible, like a bad relationship.

    This is just my perspective since I've been in a relationship with an emotionally abusive girl, but the song makes me think of those times with her a lot. Davey could be talking about something like that "set fire to my house before I turned and walked back in. For every needle open my chest and insert ten pins " makes me think of someone destroying you physical belongings, as well as the friend and family support around you. The line about needles and pins makes me think of the pain that you feel everytime someone abusive like that belittles your feelings and really stabs your through the heart with hurtful little things.

    The second verse about the garden makes sense in that context too. About trying to end the relationship, and "a deadly secret only I suffer to know" being about how hard it is to tell anyone about something like this. And the last line of the verse "I can't eradicate what awaits when I awake" seems to be about the trapped feeling in something like that.

    Maybe Davey was communicating something like that, with the subject of lucid dreams driving his point home. Maybe I'm totally wrong...

    Yeah, I know that long, sorry, my first comment on a song here.
    Flag Weathered_Tomeon April 26, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I'm not exactly sure why, but when I here this song, this little film plays in my head. Davey is dreaming a horrific dream in which blood seeps from his pores. He dies in this dream and wakes up. He then remembers that he is a dilapidated and run-down asylum for people with mental disorders. He then remembers why he was sent there. He set fire to his home and had attempted to take his life, but was saved before he could die. The blood seeping from his pores was actually doing so, because as he walked in the unkempt, overgrown garden of the asylum, he saw a single bright red rose, defying the other plants by being so hardy. He sees the rose as a flame and attempts to grab it, scraping off the scabs that formed on his arms from the fire he started in his house. As he does so, his sore, raw, exposed pores begin to bleed profusely and he crushes the final rose. People watch him doing this and have trouble beleiving that it was him who insisted on staying in the asylum when he could have just left whenever he wanted. I'm not trying to say that Davey's insane or something, but that was just a daydream I had. I think it does have to do with self-inflicted wounds, but of course, I could be wrong.
    Flag Kirlia Appealon February 15, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:For me, each line seems to be a fragment of an overlying theme "I die in my daydreams" "the gardens have been overgrown" for example, they don't continue on the same line of thought, however add meaning to what Davey is really trying to communicate:
    depression.

    I love the line "I die in my daydreams" because one usually has pleasent daydreams of what they 'hope' will happen in their life, which is an obvious example of suicide.

    I love this song, especially the heading of it. "No poetic device", its so malencholy.
    Flag icegirlkaton September 21, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Reality is a lucid dream.
    Flag punkpirateon August 29, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:i think the use of lucid dreams is brillant...i think in a sense what he's talking about is that people have much more control over their destiny's than we believe we do...we choose to let these horrible things happen to ourselves adn are immediate response is "fate" or "someone else create this problem for me" hence lines like "I pushed my hand through the thorns to crush the final rose.
    A deadly secret only I suffer to know"...it's either that which would give depth to the song and sounds more AFI esque than the idea of him just simply present the idea of lucid dreams...lucid dreams are a metaphor...our entire lives are lucid dreams( of course to an extent in lucid dreams it is believe that if you think something it exist in the nature that you thought it...we cant think something into exist but still its metaphorical)
    Flag babyevilchild999on August 09, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:did any one else think the part about blood seeping from pores was a refrence to the masque of the red death by edger allen poe
    Flag hibobon March 15, 2006   Link

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