Destroy everything you touch today
Destroy me this way
Anything that may desert you
So it cannot hurt you

You only have to look behind you
At who's underlined you
Destroy everything you touch today
Destroy me this way

Everything you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Shakes your hand
Takes your gun
Walks you out of the sun

What you touch do not feel
Do not know what you steal
Destroy everything you touch today
Please destroy me this way

Destroy everything you touch today
Destroy me this way
Anything that may delay you
Might just save you

You only have to look behind you
At who's underlined you
Destroy everything you touch today
Destroy me this way

Everything you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Shakes your hand
Takes your gun
Walks you out of the sun

Once you touch do not feel
Do not know what you steal
Destroy everything you touch today
Please destroy me this way

Everything you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Shakes your hand
Takes your gun
Walks you out of the sun

Once you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Destroy everything you touch today
Please destroy me this way

Everything you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Shakes your hand
Takes your gun
Walks you out of the sun

What you touch you don't feel
Do not know what you steal
Destroy everything you touch today
Please destroy me this way



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Track duration: 04:37

"Destroy Everything You Touch" as written by Daniel Hunt

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    General Comment:Today this song suddenly was sounding like a call to "destroy everything you touch" and to "not know what you steal" because you can afford it based on who you are.
    Must be images of Helen while listening and a slowly surfacing question where those lyrics might be coming from (especially in the earlier albums). Because they are quite noteworthy in this respect. (The song "Light
    Flag fulleron August 25, 2012   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:i think it's about a guy he's in love with and the guy is just not serious with her.

    i think the "do not know what you steal" is her heart.

    and to me, the girl doesn't mind that she's not taken seriously as long as there are times they share some moments together and it's enough for her. hence, the "destroy me this way" because she knows it will hurt her in the end but she doesn't mind it.
    Flag mariamargaritaon September 26, 2011   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:"Destroy everything you touch today
    please destroy me this way"

    craigslist.org/about/best/sea/…

    (Just fucking fuck me, already)
    Flagged zackwon September 02, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:my choice of meaning to me would be ...

    DEATH OF SUCCESS: as if vultures circlin' 'round waitin for failure,so never allow them to prevail .. never let others know your emotional state be one step ahead of them

    stay positive and in order to do that be focused, remove urself from the ones who don't have your best interest at heart, the ones who envy you, the ones who are happy when your unhappy, remove ur self from negativity created by things and people

    her alter ego is walkin' her through a survival instinct .. tellin' her you can do what people have done before turn n drive the intensity of your pain into success become STRONG HEARTED ...
    Flag mycheleon August 23, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:The song is about environmentalism and humanity effect on the earth. If you watch the video all the band members are incorporated into the diorama of a mountain side. The "mountains" represented by the band members are singing.
    Flag thearroganceofempathyon July 04, 2011   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:I agree with a few commenter's above me.
    I think the song is about someone who has relationship issues and is scared to get to close to people, so they hurt them to push them away.

    'Destroy everything you touch today
    Destroy me this way
    Anything that may desert you
    So it cannot hurt you'

    This is like someone who is scared of being left, and has been left behind and would rather leave on their own terms when things get too serious than get left behind.

    I goes on to say if you look behind you, 'at whos underlined you', who has caused this or even, look at me, I have always been here for you, and proceeds to say 'Destroy me this way', saying you are pushing away everything else, you are hurting me, destroy what we have like all the others. Almost like a kinda wind up call, This whole song is filled with frustration that the person does not see what they are doing.

    Everything you touch you don't feel
    Do not know what you steal
    Shakes your hand
    Takes your gun
    Walks you out of the sun

    - You don't have any emotions left, you don't care anymore and you don't even realize what you are doing; look at me, who takes away your gun, to looks after you, who takes you away from danger, then it goes onto the chorus again, 'everything you touch today, please destroy me this way' - a mocking desperation also a sense of real sacrifice.
    Flag Lilibuth12on January 31, 2011   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:A lot people are making a specific situation out of it be I really think was intended to be, rather it embodies the destructive nature of human beings
    Flag MsColetteon December 29, 2010   Link
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    My Interpretation:The () Is my intepretation

    Destroy everything you touch today
    Destroy me this way
    (You destroy your surroundings, in many ways, by having a barrier, being cold and exclude your true self, when you goes hand in hand with your coldness and lie)

    Anything that may desert you
    So it cannot hurt you
    (You make them fall so they cannot hurt you, or see through you)

    You only have to look behind you
    At who’s underlined you
    (You only have to look behind, beside and forward you to underline them and your true self, to become a lie and live in fear)

    Destroy everything you touch today
    Destroy me this way
    (You destroy your surroundings, in many ways, by having a barrier, being cold and exclude your true self, when you goes hand in hand with your coldness and lie)

    Everything you touch you don’t feel
    (You don’t feel anything that comes across you or that touches you, ´cause you’re too afraid of emotions, yourself and others, and you don’t let yourself live, you rule yourself)

    Do not know what you steal
    (You don’t know that you steal away your identity, you don’t let yourself live)

    Shakes your hand
    (You meet people with your other hand, with an identity stolen from yourself)

    Takes your gun
    (And you have a gun, in your hand, that you have for killing yourself, and killing others from seeing or meeting you)

    Walks you out of the sun
    (You walks in darkness and goes out of the light of yourself, you wear sunglasses so you can’t meet yourself in any way, and you avoid the sun and the light, ´cause it frightens you from go away from your coldness)

    What you touch do not feel
    (You don’t feel anything, ´cause you’re too cold)

    Do not know what you steal
    (You don’t know that you steal away your identity, you don’t let yourself live)

    Destroy everything you touch today
    Please destroy me this way
    (By having this cold barrier, and this broken lie living inside of you, makes you fall apart, and that’s exactly what you want, so please destroy me)

    Destroy everything you touch today
    Destroy me this way
    (By having this cold barrier, ad this broken lie living inside of you, makes you fall apart, and that’s exactly what you want, so please destroy me)

    Anything that may delay you
    Might just save you
    (Anything, or anyone that makes you come into a conflict and hold up the true side, that comes near you, might just save you, ´cause realization is ahead of you)

    You only have to look behind you
    At who’s underlined you
    (You only have to look behind, beside and forward you to underline them and your true self, to become a lie and live in fear, or it can be, who sees through you)

    Destroy everything you touch today
    Destroy me this way
    (You destroy your surroundings, in many ways, by having a barrier, being cold and exclude your true self, when you goes hand in hand with your coldness and lie)

    Everything you touch you don’t feel
    (You don’t feel anything that comes across you or that touches you, ´cause you’re too afraid of emotions, yourself and others, and you don’t let yourself live, you rule yourself)

    Do not know what you steal
    (You don’t know that you steal away your identity, you don’t let yourself live)

    Shakes your hand
    (You meet people with your other hand, with an identity stolen from yourself)

    Takes your gun
    (And you have a gun, in your hand, that you have for killing yourself, and killing others from seeing or meeting you)

    Walks you out of the sun
    (You walks in darkness and goes of the light of yourself, you wear sunglasses so you can´t meet yourself in any way, and you avoid the sun and the light, ´cause it frightens you from go away from your coldness)

    Once you touch do not feel
    (You don’t feel anything, ´cause you’re too cold)

    Do not know what you steal
    (You don’t know that you steal away your identity, you don’t let yourself live)

    Destroy everything you touch today
    (You destroy your surroundings, in many ways, by having a barrier, being cold and exclude your true self, when you goes hand in hand with your coldness and lie)


    Please destroy me this way
    (By having this cold barrier, and this broken lie living inside of you, makes you fall apart, and that’s exactly what you want, so please destroy me)

    Everything you touch you don´t feel
    (You don’t feel anything that comes across you or that touches you, ´cause you’re too afraid of emotions, yourself and others, and you don’t let yourself live, you rule yourself)

    Do not know what you steal
    (You don’t know that you steal away your identity, you don’t let yourself live)

    Shakes your hand
    (You meet people with your other hand, with an identity stolen from yourself)

    Takes your gun
    (And you have a gun, in your hand, that you have for killing yourself, and killing others from seeing or meeting you)

    Walks you out of the sun
    (You walks in darkness and goes of the light of yourself, you wear sunglasses so you can´t meet yourself in any way, and you avoid the sun and the light, ´cause it frightens you from go away from your coldness)

    Once you touch you don’t feel
    (You don’t feel anything, ´cause you’re too cold)

    Do not know what you steal
    (You don’t know that you steal away your identity, you don’t let yourself live)

    Destroy everything you touch today
    Please destroy me this way
    (By having this cold barrier, and this broken lie living inside of you, makes you fall apart, and that’s exactly what you want, so please destroy me)

    Everything you touch you don�t feel
    (You don’t feel anything that comes across you or that touches you, ´cause you’re too afraid of emotions, yourself and others, and you don’t let yourself live, you rule yourself)

    Do not know what you steal
    (You don’t know that you steal away your identity, you don’t let yourself live)

    Shakes your hand
    (You meet people with your other hand, with an identity stolen from yourself)

    Takes your gun
    (And you have a gun, in your hand, that you have for killing yourself, and killing others from seeing or meeting you)

    Walks you out of the sun
    (You walks in darkness and goes of the light of yourself, you wear sunglasses so you can´t meet yourself in any way, and you avoid the sun and the light, ´cause it frightens you from go away from your coldness)

    What you touch you don�t feel
    (You don’t feel anything that comes across you or that touches you, ´cause you’re too afraid of emotions, yourself and others, and you don’t let yourself live, you rule yourself)

    Do not know what you steal
    (You don’t know that you steal away your identity, you don’t let yourself live)

    Destroy everything you touch today
    Please destroy me this way
    (By having this cold barrier, and this broken lie living inside of you, makes you fall apart, and that’s exactly what you want, so please destroy me)

    Flag Monreflectionson April 11, 2010   Link
  • 0
    My Interpretation:I think the song is about materialism, how the things we want or have devour our souls:
    "Everything you touch you don't feel... Shakes your hand, Takes your gun, Walks you out of the sun" and the song suggests escaping from that curse "Destroy everything you touch today... So it cannot hurt you."
    Flag nosmo54321on September 08, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I'm probably very off but this song to me is about a woman who wants somebody so much but she is not wanted back at all or maybe is wanted but the other person is scared to be with her for some reason...and she feels it herself...like the other person wants her to go away from him...But still she wants at least some connection with him so she asks him to touch her like this would destroy her and so he could live a life without her how he wishes....

    "Destroy everything you touch today
    Destroy me this way
    Anything that may delay you
    Might just save you "

    This part pretty much says this
    Flag iwontsufferon August 30, 2009   Link

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