Are you listening?
We write a thousand pages
They're torn and on the floor
Headlights hammer the windows
We're locked behind these doors
And we are never leaving
This place is part of us
And all these scenes repeating
Are cold to the touch

My hands seem to deceive me
When I'm nervous or when I'm healthy
The scenery's all drawn.
They hang here from the walls dear
Painting pictures, bleeding colors
Blanket the windows
Sometimes it gets so hard to breathe
Your eyes see right through me
These fights with your arms left beside
One thing and one more says goodnight
You've got the map come get to me
These knuckles break before they bleed
Tear out these veins that own my heart
This skin that wears your lasting marks
I've built these walls come get to me, come get to me
Is this your lesson, a slight discretion
The lines that keep you, the lines that sweep you
Lock the doors from inside
Your face is so contagious, it wears announcements
It leaves me breathless, I won't forget this, I won't forget
Let the walls have their say
This time the walls will have their say

No conversation, without remorse
And this television drowns the only source
Wake from these dreams of you in my arms
To the staircase where you hold my heart
This place, these walls mean everything to me


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    I think this song is about domestic violence. the scene the beginning of the song paints out represents cops showing up to a home and the narrator and the abuser are locked in the house. the walls are maybe both the walls in the house and the emotional walls the narrator has built inside himself to keep safe from another tragedy such as this. all these memories are cold to the touch, the repeat over and over leaving you cold. my hands seem to deceive me when I'm nervous or when I'm healthy, possibly trauma response, no matter the state of mind you'll always have this. sometimes is gets so hard to breathe your eyes see right through me also the your face is so contagious part, this abuser has such an overbearing and suffocating presence in the narrators life. these fights with your arms left beside, this whole section of the song reads to me as just a heart breaking depiction of the abuse. I've built these walls come get to me, you've got the map come get to me, these lyrics represent how the narrator has built up these walls and hides from this abuser. is this your lesson a slight discretion the line to keep you the line to sweep you lock the doors from the inside, I see this as the abuser trying to make the narrator stay with them, locking the doors, discretion and calling these acts a lesson seems like manipulative behavior. there's no conversation words with no remorse, screaming, arguing, verbal abuse. and this television drowns the only source, I can't really interpret this line, it doesn't seem to fit with the other lyrics meaning wise (it's a killer line anyways) but maybe it's watching TV to avoid and take your mind off of the abuse? a distraction? wake from these dreams of you in my arms to the staircase where you hold my heart, obviously the narrator still loves the abuser but wishes with everything that this abuse would end, these dreams of them together keep the narrator holding on. my favorite line, this place these walls mean everything to me, saying that this is what makes him up, the love, the abuse, they define the negative and positive aspects of his life. the walls, he's built, the place where this abuse is happening, this love is what has made him.

    sludgeface15on March 21, 2024   Link

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