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Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand?
Like the sun is just going to drop if it’s night you demand
Well, in the dark we are just air so the house might dissolve
But once we are gone, who is gonna care if we were ever here at all?
Well, summer is going to come and it’s gonna cloud our eyes again
There is not need to focus when there is nothing that it worth
seeing
So we trade liquor for blood in an attempt to tip the scales
I think you lost what you loved in that mess of details
They seemed so important at the time but now you can’t even recall
Any of the names, faces, or lines, it is more the feeling of it all Well, winter is going to end and I’m going to clean these veins again
So close to dying that I finally can start living
Like the sun is just going to drop if it’s night you demand
Well, in the dark we are just air so the house might dissolve
But once we are gone, who is gonna care if we were ever here at all?
Well, summer is going to come and it’s gonna cloud our eyes again
There is not need to focus when there is nothing that it worth
seeing
So we trade liquor for blood in an attempt to tip the scales
I think you lost what you loved in that mess of details
They seemed so important at the time but now you can’t even recall
Any of the names, faces, or lines, it is more the feeling of it all Well, winter is going to end and I’m going to clean these veins again
So close to dying that I finally can start living
Lyrics submitted by PLANES
Track duration: 08:29
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“Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand? Like the sun is just going to drop if it’s night you demand”
That is almost word for word what people tell me, when I talk about my eating disorder. And it speaks so true, anyone who has an obsession or an addiction can understand, because you did. You really didn’t think this monster would rule you.
“Well, in the dark we are just air so the house might dissolve
But once we are gone, who is gonna care if we were ever here at all? “
This might be the death of you, but you don’t care, and you’re pretty sure no one else should care either. You believe no one cares about you. It really seems that way.
“Well, summer is going to come and it’s gonna cloud our eyes again”
Summer is a time, for me at least when my ED is not so bad. I’m so distracted hat it’s almost gone.
“There is no need to focus when there is nothing that it worth seeing”
Who can focus on recover, I mean it’s won’t be worth t.
“So we trade liquor for blood in an attempt to tip the scales”
I DON’T do it personally, but online I have met plenty of people who drink to a lot so they puke to lose weight.
“I think you lost what you loved in that mess of details”
Obviously, it is so true.
“They seemed so important at the time but now you can’t even recall”
The reasons why you started all of this.
“Any of the names, faces, or lines, it is more the feeling of it all Well, winter is going to end and I’m going to clean these veins again”
Summer comes, it’s all over for a while.
“So close to dying that I finally can start living”
This defines eating disorders.
"There Is Not Need to Focus When There Is Nothing That it worth seeing" makes me think of people with ADHD, and it is described in a very nice (but sad) way.
"An attempt to tip the scales"? Really?
Within this song I think that's the clearest reference, but looking through his work from the late '90's/early 2000's it becomes pretty obvious that by tipping the scale... he hopes to lose weight.
"Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand?
Like the sun is just going to drop if it�s night you demand"
I feel like it's playing off of the creation story in the BIble, where God commands let there be light instead of darkness. It really seems like he's addressing the listener personally, and I think it has to do with depression. It's like... the world is going to keep going on the way it wants to, no matter how you're feeling. Night and the dark would also be references to depression...
"Well, in the dark we are just air so the house might dissolve
But once we are gone, who is gonna care if we were ever here at all?"
This part is complicated for me. I think "in the dark we are just air" is like... when you're depressed (in the dark) you feel void... empty, devoid of anything, a black hole, just have nothing inside you. And I think the house refers to our bodies. Like in a depression you can feel so empty that you feel like you've disappeared entirely. I think it's also making a reference to the idea that something can only exist when it's being observed -- and in the "dark" no one can see you, and you can't see yourself anymore, so you might stop existing. "But once we are gone..." This line is obviously showing his doubt in God or any god's existence, but interestingly, it's a question instead of a statement. I also keep seeing this underlying religious theme -- "in the dark we are just air", I think about the "let there be light" bit again -- wasn't it in the beginning there was nothing? And THEN God said "Let there be light." I think that's how that goes. It sounds like a stretch, but it's something I keep noticing and it's throughout all the lyrics if you keep the religion idea in the back of your mind. :[
"So we trade liquor for blood in an attempt to tip the scales"
Trade liquor for blood could be the obvious, or it could refer to partaking of the sacrament. Drinking the blood of Christ (wine) makes a person closer to God, or ... something. I'm not saying that he's referring to himself taking sacrament, it just seems cleverly put to mean both drinking too much and refer to the Catholic ritual.
"Well, winter is going to end and I'm going to clean these veins again
So close to dying that I finally can start living"
"Clean these veins", if you refer back to partaking sacrament it makes sense, but these lines seem sarcastic in the context I've put it in. Although winter ending would signify the end of depression, it means summer will be coming along and "Summer's gonna come, it's gonna cloud our eyes again. There's no need to focus when there's nothing that's worth seeing" sounds more like a state of mindless oblivion, not being truly aware of what's around you and caught up in the meaningless details of life.
So, I dunno. I don't interpret it as a religious song, I feel like it's kind of mocking, in a good way.
Next time I listen to it I'll probably think it means something different, but for now I like it meaning this. :]
and the interview at the end is a joke, because he felt the album was too serious. and it's not conor, it's his friend. so...just deal with it.
There is not need to focus when there is nothing that it worth
seeing"
"Well, winter is going to end and I’m going to clean these veins again
So close to dying that I finally can start living "
i love these lines.