Smile Empty Soul – With This Knife

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I let myself fall into a lie
I let my walls come down
I let myself smile and feel alive
I let my walls come down
No matter how I try I don't know why
You push so far away
You wrapped your hands tight around my heart
And squeezed it full of pain

[Chorus]
With this knife I'll cut out the part of me
The part that cares for you
With this knife I'll cut out the heart of me
The heart that cares for you

I can't believe the way you took me down
I never saw the pain
Coming in a million broken miles
Like poison in my veins

[Chorus]

The hate and the fear
The nightmares that wake me up
In the tears
The nightmares and (the hate)...

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"With This Knife" as written by Sean Danielson John Parker

Lyrics © WINDSWEPT HOLDINGS LLC

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    My Interpretation:This song is so deep.
    I think It's my favorite.

    Very deep.
    Verry good
    Flag jusagurl93xon April 24, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This song is so deep.
    I think It's my favorite.

    Very deep.
    Verry good
    Flag jusagurl93xon April 24, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Okay, I take it back. This definately could be a relationship thing, just trying to forget the person even though a huge part of his life he would lose.
    Flag DJgifon July 27, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I always saw it as a self-loathing song, when they say "with this knife i'll cut out the part of me, the part that cares for you" I thought maybe he was talking to himself, like he wasn't going to care for himself anymore. Because he blames himself for his problems. There isn't much to hint it's about a relationship... but I guess that's what everyone assumes a song is about, right? -_-;
    Flag DJgifon June 27, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i think its about someone that guards himself from the world, and when he finds someone that he cares about, he opens up, then that person hurts him, so he is try to forget or numb himself to the pain again.
    Flag zeigon December 05, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Great song.

    the meaning is pretty obvious. he fell in love with this girl, but the entire time she was just leading him on. the relationship ended really bad, either he found out she was cheating or she told him she doesnt feel the same as he does, and breaks up with him. idk, it could be anything.


    once again, great song. :)
    Flag Sikkon May 29, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I love this song. (like most smile empty soul songs)

    The song to me is about him wanting to cut out the part of him that loves her because she jsut hurts him all the time. He let his defenses downa nd trusted her not to hurt him but she still did and now he wants her gone. I think he stillr eally cares about her and he doesnt want to ahve to cut her out but he cant handle the hurt. He never thought she could do this and he just wants to forget aobut her and stop caring aobut her.

    I can sort of relate to this one but not as much as the others. My boyfriend has hurt me emotionally and i never thought he would. I never really wanted a boyfriend for the longst time and i ahd built up defences or "walls" so high but i finally let them down because i trusted him with my heart. I still lvoe him and i ahvent been able to "cut out the part of me that cares for him" but if i get hurt again i fear i may have to.
    Flag BrokenxoInsideon April 11, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Wow, you guys, I think that you are entirely missing the point of this song, it's a song about self-loathing. Your not casting the blame so much on the person that did what they did to you, you place it upon yourself for allowing it to happen. You knew that they were a mistake, or that they had done something in the past. And yet you stayed and tried to make things work. You hate yourself for saying that it would never happen to you again and it did. It's a song that I can relate to all to well. It's about resulting to cutting yourself for allowing yourself to be "taken in" again.
    Flag +Bloody_Angel+on April 09, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I love this song, this band, all of their lyrics, and everything about them.
    I'll go insane if they ever break up.
    Flag noxregretson January 02, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This is my firs time listening to SES, you can tell that this song is really personal and thats what makes it so powerful. This song is almost like a written betrayal of love, how he trusted someone to let them into his innermost self and then was hurt when he realised the person [whom he wrote about] wasnt as commited as he was. This song relates to heaps of people because at one time or another, someone has been hurt by someone they loved. its a song journal, hes trying to let go of someone who he has had in his heart, but he knows it will take along time so its the frustration of not being able to move on, its beautiful.
    Flag shatteredperfectionon December 20, 2006   Link

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