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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.
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.
Lyrics submitted by oofus
Track duration: 02:16
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"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?
"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?
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.
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.
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)