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The air was all dust and not so untamed
The ground opened up and swallowed all of the rain
And it swallowed you too, into distance unknown
As they sat down for dinner they waited for you to get home
Yeah, they set a place for you
So don't believe everything you read in that diary of yours
And this nervousness, it isn't all your fault
It's just these shaking hands won't do what I want them to
And I've tried to guess what it is that you thought about
That act of contrition that rolled off our tongues as you wept
What are you crying for?
Just dust my heart and you will find
There are no fingers printed there
Just the untouched place that lies inside
Of every lonely boy tonight
And all of this open air has caused me to choke
On your new found hope for me
The ground opened up and swallowed all of the rain
And it swallowed you too, into distance unknown
As they sat down for dinner they waited for you to get home
Yeah, they set a place for you
So don't believe everything you read in that diary of yours
And this nervousness, it isn't all your fault
It's just these shaking hands won't do what I want them to
And I've tried to guess what it is that you thought about
That act of contrition that rolled off our tongues as you wept
What are you crying for?
Just dust my heart and you will find
There are no fingers printed there
Just the untouched place that lies inside
Of every lonely boy tonight
And all of this open air has caused me to choke
On your new found hope for me
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everything that you read
in that diary of yours"
Beautiful.
Also, when was the last time you heard a modern band write in 3/4?
"the air was all dust on a night so untamed"?
an act of contrition is to apologise, and ask for forgiveness for your sins; it is a religious thing and the ultimate sin in catholocism, christianity and other religions is suicide. ultimately anyone who is successful in taking their own lives is instantly condemned to hell.
he doesn't understand why she is the way she is, but he knows thats she's too absorbed in her own problems and what's going on in her head to have anything left to give him.
i think it's about actually reading her diary to try and understand what was going on in her head, why she killed herself, and he finds
"Just dust my heart and you will find
There are no fingers printed there
Just the untouched place that lies inside
Of every lonely boy tonight
And all of this open air has caused me to choke
On your new found hope for me "
written there and that's what makes him realise, she was in a compelte other world to him and he was just making her worse.
But then, i thought about the title, & i wasn't really sure what it was about, so i looked it up on google & only just discovered that it's a catholic prayer...which is as follows:
O my God, I am heartily sorry
for having offended Thee,
and I detest all my sins,
because I dread the loss of Heaven
and the pains of Hell,
but most of all because they
offend Thee, my God,
Who art all-good and deserving
of all my love.
I firmly resolve, with the help
of Thy grace to confess my sins,
to do penance
and to amend my life. Amen.
so i guess it's about apologising for your sins.
i'm not sure if that adds anything?
"Just dust my heart and you will find
There are no fingers printed there"
Perhaps the girl he's speaking to took this the wrong way, so she ran away, commited suicide, etc.
Who clearly feels as though she is alone in the world and who is often second-guessing herself and her relationships
"So don't believe everything you read in that diary of yours"
And he is trying to reassure her that not only does she have a family behind her but she has him 100%
i think conor is talking about feeling affection from someone else, for the first time ever. also, maybe he is talking to someone who cared a lot for people and felt like they didn't return it at all.
"the ground opened up and swallowed all of the rain
And it swallowed you too, into distance unknown" part
and maybe:
"As they sat down for dinner they waited for you to get home
Yeah, they set a place for you" could be her family or someone waiting up for, not knowing she had killed herself