Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
A dark congregation
Of familiar faces
Gathered around the quiet earth
A red rose
Fell upon the soft snow
Prayers were whispered so slow
From our mouths
Our breath rose in the cold, like a hundred souls escaping
Save me, I'm swallowed by the guilt of this (You're gone)
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
We are surrounded
By all of the quiet
Sleepers inside the quiet earth
A fear that
I cannot shape, you
Dared to kiss the face
Of the night
Our lips were cold as clay, we couldn't speak anyway
Save me, I'm swallowed by the guilt of this (You're gone)
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Our breath rose in the cold, like a hundred souls
We, we are alone
I know you're gone
Save me, I'm swallowed by the guilt of this
You're gone
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Of familiar faces
Gathered around the quiet earth
A red rose
Fell upon the soft snow
Prayers were whispered so slow
From our mouths
Our breath rose in the cold, like a hundred souls escaping
Save me, I'm swallowed by the guilt of this (You're gone)
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
We are surrounded
By all of the quiet
Sleepers inside the quiet earth
A fear that
I cannot shape, you
Dared to kiss the face
Of the night
Our lips were cold as clay, we couldn't speak anyway
Save me, I'm swallowed by the guilt of this (You're gone)
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Our breath rose in the cold, like a hundred souls
We, we are alone
I know you're gone
Save me, I'm swallowed by the guilt of this
You're gone
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Lyrics submitted by kasandra
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i think the meaning is pretty obvious -- losing someone and wishing there were something you could have done to stop it.
this is going to sound really weird. i don't know, it kind of reminds me of someone who had a fling with someone who's taken or married or whatever and they feel really guilty, but at the same time, they don't want that thing they had--whatever it was--to be forgotten.
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A woman is at her lover's funeral, and she recalls memories and her possible future. I like it, it has an interesting mood to it.
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