This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
If you wanna stay
Always here
All these years
The last frontier
It's no concern of theirs
The world outside
Corrupts my child
So trust these eyes
Faith is in your soul
But in these walls
Hormones stall
Dogs will crawl
The vices and the doubt
We resist
All this shit
So kneel submit
Free love
Free love
Feel love in all my sisters
Breathe out
Blind house
You don't need to know their secrets
Believe me
Pray and violate
Abuse your trust
False gods must
Purge their lust
A family that lies
To seal your fate
To take the weight
Of their self-hate
Free love
Free love
Bring love to all my sisters
Breathe out
Blind house
You don't need to know their secrets
Believe me
Breathe out
Blind house
Free love
Feel loved
Always here
All these years
The last frontier
It's no concern of theirs
The world outside
Corrupts my child
So trust these eyes
Faith is in your soul
But in these walls
Hormones stall
Dogs will crawl
The vices and the doubt
We resist
All this shit
So kneel submit
Free love
Free love
Feel love in all my sisters
Breathe out
Blind house
You don't need to know their secrets
Believe me
Pray and violate
Abuse your trust
False gods must
Purge their lust
A family that lies
To seal your fate
To take the weight
Of their self-hate
Free love
Free love
Bring love to all my sisters
Breathe out
Blind house
You don't need to know their secrets
Believe me
Breathe out
Blind house
Free love
Feel loved
Lyrics submitted by christsizeshoes
The Blind House Lyrics as written by Steven John Wilson
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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Steven Wilson said the inspiration for this song came from a raid of a fundamentalist church in Texas.
There's a wiki entry about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YFZ_Ranch_raid
And you can hear Wilson talk about it in this video: roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/page/News
Loving this track, by the way. :)
"It's no concern of theirs The world outside Corrupts my child So trust these eyes"
This song is ridiculously beautiful.
I can't get enough of this album. I LOVE it. I think it's seriously better than sex.
I'm pretty sure this song is about a religious cult, or fundamentalist group. The song mentions staying behind the walls and not needing to look at the "corrupt" world.
Does anyone else like the drumming on this as much as I do?
Gavin is amazing... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Harrison
Sounds like an attack on the average pedestrian and their trust of the media.
anyone else notice how messed up you feel after hearing this song? F'n Great though.
This song is soo sad..
Little girls being molested by people of the 'faith'. A false kind of trust.. It is horrible and I don't want to discuss this any further. I can feel the hurt in this song, I can share their pain.
You don't need to know their secrets.. You wouldn't understand.
I think there's a one mistake in the lyrics but the rest is totally correct
Faith is in your soul But in these walls All Most of Dogs will crawl
Ive got the lyric booklet,<br /> If you want to stay<br /> Always here<br /> All these years<br /> The last frontier<br /> <br /> It's no concern of theirs<br /> The world outside<br /> Corrupts my child<br /> So trust these eyes<br /> <br /> Faith is in your soul<br /> Within these walls<br /> Hormones stall<br /> Dogs will crawl<br /> <br /> The vices and the doubts<br /> We resist<br /> All this shit<br /> So kneel, submit<br /> <br /> Free love<br /> Free love<br /> Bring love to all my sisters<br /> <br /> Breathe out<br /> Blind house<br /> You don't need to know their secrets<br /> Believe me<br /> <br /> Pray and violate<br /> Abuse your trust<br /> False gods must<br /> Purge their lust<br /> <br /> A family that lies<br /> To seal your fate<br /> To take the weight<br /> Of their self-hate<br /> <br /> Free love<br /> Free love<br /> Bring love to all my sisters<br /> <br /> Breathe out<br /> Blind house<br /> You don't need to know the secrets<br /> Believe me<br /> <br /> Breathe out<br /> Blind house<br /> Free love<br /> Feel loved <br />
Sounds like it could be about a convent...or nuns, being locked in, losing faith etc. Only SW could come up with this. What a great album!
By "hormones stall" it might be referring to how sex abusers (or the abused) are stuck in a hormone-fuelled adolescent phase, and never 'grow out of it'. They remain bound by their basic instincts ("dogs will crawl" is a nicer way of saying "dogs will hunt") forever.