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Bury all your secrets in my skin
Come away with innocence, and leave me with my sins
The air around me still feels like a cage
And love is just a camouflage for what resembles rage again
So if you love me, let me go.
And run away before I know.
My heart is just too dark to care.
I can't destroy what isn't there.
Deliver me into my fate, if I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you
My smile was taken long ago, if I can change I hope I never know
I still press your letters to my lips
And cherish them in parts of me that savor every kiss
I couldn't face a life without your light
But all of that was ripped apart, when you refused to fight
So save your breath, I will not care.
I think I made it very clear.
You couldn't hate enough to love.
Is that supposed to be enough?
I only wish you weren't my friend.
Then I could hurt you in the end.
I never claimed to be a saint
My own was banished long ago, it took the death of hope to let you go
So break yourself against my stones
And spit your pity in my soul
You never needed any help
You sold me out to save yourself
And I won't listen to your shame
You ran away, you're all the same
Angels lie to keep control
My love was punished long ago
If you still care, don't ever let me know
If you still care, don't ever let me know
Come away with innocence, and leave me with my sins
The air around me still feels like a cage
And love is just a camouflage for what resembles rage again
So if you love me, let me go.
And run away before I know.
My heart is just too dark to care.
I can't destroy what isn't there.
Deliver me into my fate, if I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you
My smile was taken long ago, if I can change I hope I never know
I still press your letters to my lips
And cherish them in parts of me that savor every kiss
I couldn't face a life without your light
But all of that was ripped apart, when you refused to fight
So save your breath, I will not care.
I think I made it very clear.
You couldn't hate enough to love.
Is that supposed to be enough?
I only wish you weren't my friend.
Then I could hurt you in the end.
I never claimed to be a saint
My own was banished long ago, it took the death of hope to let you go
So break yourself against my stones
And spit your pity in my soul
You never needed any help
You sold me out to save yourself
And I won't listen to your shame
You ran away, you're all the same
Angels lie to keep control
My love was punished long ago
If you still care, don't ever let me know
If you still care, don't ever let me know
Lyrics submitted by F.r.o.g.
Track duration: 04:36
"Snuff" as written by Sidney George Wilson, Nathan Jonas Jordison, Paul Dedrick Gray, Christopher Michael Fehn, James Donald Root, Craig Alan Jones, Michael Shawn Crahan, Mickael Gordon Thomson, Corey Todd Taylor
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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I think the title is metaphor for the death of hope. One of the definitions of snuff is the charred portion of a candlewick, or in other words is a burned out candle, the flame of a candle representing hope in this case.
"It took the death of hope to let you go" has 2 meanings:
It took the death of hope | to let you go and
It took the death | of hope to let you go
Thats why i think the name is chosen because it shows the twilight of this situation, either death, or hopeless life.
For me, it's about wanting to have something that's already slipping through your fingers. It's about something that is over and it hurts to be over. It's a goodbye and final confession. It's about loving so much that you cant separate yourself from the person you love - you are so close, know each other so well. You become almost obsessed with the smell of the loved one, of their presence and you want it badly.
"Bury all your secrets in my skin" - all you dont want to be known you can share it with me. You can forget who you are and what others see you when you're with me - i think that's what it means. It's a plea from someone who wants to be wanted. "Come away with innocence and leave me with my sins"- you are the angel in the case and im the bad, evil, sinner. Even if you are being wrong being with me i am always going to look at you as someone who doesnt make mistakes and is innocent in all of what have happened. Or you are the one who comes and leaves all sins with me even and they stay event after youre gone. All you've shown and said is lingering here. I feel caged when you are here because i have no choice but to be with you. I am dependent on you, you're like a dose i need. A drug. And im angry for needing you, for your numbness. You dont care about anything but i care more than i should for you.
"So if you love me let me go / and run away before i know" i am fading away with you. I know it and im begging for this to be over because i want it too much for my own sake so you have to end it, i never could.
"My heart is just too dark to care, i cant destroy what isn't there" Again with the bad, the darkness that's inside me. I cant destroy what we have because when youre here i act like i dont care as much as i do.
-It's clear that she's driving him insane. Literally. He's so confused and tries to understand what is she doing with him. All she's doing is playing with him.
"So save your breath i will not care/ i think i made it very clear/ you couldnt hate enough to love, is that supposed to be enough?" He is hating her and loving her at the same time. Hate and love are both passionate feelings and the way she is, not caring at all, shows that she doesnt feel even a little bit of what he feels for here. She runs away when it becomes too real or he starts to tell her something about his feelings. "So break yourself against my stones/ and spit your pity in my soul/ you never needed any help, you sold me out to save yourself" He is trying to get away from her and over her, acting like he doesnt care to end things. Separating them with a stone wall, i guess i see it that way. And when she gets that she cant use him, manipulate and play him anymore she "spits her pity in his soul", hurting him. "You ran away, you're all the same/Angels lie to keep control/My love was punished long ago
If you still care, don't ever let me know" For him she's his angel but she controls him and he cant go on like that so he wants her to never let him know if she still "cares".
This is what i think about the song meaning.
He then says "I can't destory what isn't there" and "I don't deserve to have you". Those are classic lines from someone who is pushing someone away. He's pushing her away. He's in a dark place and she was his "light" and he's just getting deeper into his darkness or depression and doesn't feel he deserves her or is good enough for her.
He can't hurt her because he still feels something for her even if it is just friendship. It is easy to hurt a stranger you don't care about. He wishes he could hurt her to push her away more but he can't. Then when she finally ran away, he turned it around on her saying she doesn't care enough. He wanted her to fight for him and she didn't.
He still feels something for who she used to be which are in the letters he still cherishes. They might be the nicest letters he's ever received but he just doesn't feel he deserves them.
" You sold me out to save yourself' and "Bury your secrets in my skin". It sounds like he confided some secrets in her and she spilled them to someone which put him deeper into his dark place. It's very hard to find someone that you can trust completely with your secrets. It sounds like she buried some secrets in him and he never told anyone but she told his and claims to "care" about him. He doesn't want to hear that she cares because she hurt him so much and it just doesn't matter anymore if she does.