Lyrics for Forsaken as interpreted by Mopnugget

Forsaken Lyrics
When I have nothing left to feel.
When I have nothing left to say
I'll just let this slip away.

I feel these engines power down.
I feel this heart begin to bleed
as I turn this burning page.

Please forgive me if I bleed.
Please forgive me if I breathe.
I have words I need to say.
Oh so very much to say.

And whose life do I lead?
And whose blood do I bleed?
Whose air do I breathe?
With whose skin now do I feel?

I'm supposed to walk away from here.
I'm supposed to walk away from here.

And whose life do I lead?
Whose blood do I bleed?
Whose air do I now breathe?
I'm convinced there's nothing more.

The day you died I lost my way.
The day you died I lost my mind.

What am I supposed to do?
Is there something more?

The engines power down.
Like a soldier to his end I go.
Because I'm convinced
that there is nothing more.

and whose life do I lead
and whose air do I breathe?
With whose skin and whose blood do I feel?

What happens now?
Have I done something wrong?

Forgive my need to bleed right now.
Please forgive my need to breathe
But I've so much to say
and it wouldn't matter anyway.
You're not here to hear these words that I must say
and I'm convinced inside
that there is nothing more.

Whose life do I lead?
Whose air do I breathe.
Whose blood do I now bleed?
With whose skin now do I feel?

I have nothing left to say.
I have nothing left to feel.
Am I supposed to let this go now,
let darkness come and take you away?

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Corvusia
03-27-2009

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I think this is a beautiful song. Honestly, it helped me through my father's death to hear it and know someone else has felt exactly the way I did and made it through. I want to give Mark and Ronan hugs for playing music that can impact one's life so much. :)

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drake63628
10-27-2007

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I lost my best friend, well actually more like a brother, in april of this year and this song hits home, because he committed suicide and was an outcast. This song makes me cry when i hear it because it reminds me of all the stuff i could never say to him before he killed himself.

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HorsesMouth
04-04-2007

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VNV NATION "SONG MEANINGS" INSIDE
15 page interview with Ronan Harris.

http://dancemusic.about.com/od/artistshomepages/a/VnVNationInt.htm

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AmbienDaydream
03-04-2007

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I've owned this song for quite some time. For most of that time, I had only heard the original, instrumental version. My feelings about the song were formed from that, rather than the version with lyrics.

Listening to the instrumental version, I've always had the image of a flawed, or even "bad" person as they pass and meet that which awaits them. Imagine someone who has, in life, alienated everyone or who has even wronged many others, all the while maintaining an attitude of superiority, callousness, indifference, or even aggression & spite, and who is beginning to worry about the idea that they may not share in the bounty which awaits the good. The old man lies in a cold, sanitized room at the end of a lonely hallway in some neglected area of a hospital, and with the final flits of his eyelids springs a tear. His transporting angel arrives, and his sobs transcend the physical as he wonders whether his private pain, that which has tortured him in life despite his misanthropic, antisocial veneer, will be sufficient to gain him passage. The loving angel plants a kiss on his heavy forehead, smiling in a mixture of awe and pity. The hospital recedes into the distance, and the departed is left to eternity. His questions of whether that eternity will be one of peace or turmoil are forgotten as the sheer breath of eternity becomes apparent, and his privacies become part of the trivial.

"For 40 years I have plotted to bring down the party; I was sick, in mind and body."
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"If your frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth."

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ransim
09-12-2006

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This song has profound meaning for me, especially after losing my younger brother to tragedy a year and a half ago. I had a chance to sit with Ronan several months ago when he DJ'd in DC last and talk about this song.

Its a song of hope, of mourning, of coping with grief and trying to convey that which people who have never been through such lose could understand.

Its not about suicide, or despair, or depression, its about grief and coping and going on with your life even through something important has been torn out from it. Its about those words and things you'll never share with that person.

Its feeling that pain fully, accepting it as real and accepting the reality and the futility of it, and moving on.

I was glad to have the chance to thank Ronan for this song, it helped me cope with that loss, it made me realize that I wasn't the only person who felt that hopeless emptiness, the loss of self and void that comes with such a tragedy. And it let me know that I could move on.

Because I could find myself again, through it all.

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RandomOck
04-13-2006

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this song is about bleeding and what happens when you slit your wrists. the line "whose blood do i bleed" rings super-duper true with me as i often ask myself this question. whenever im cleaning up my dogs blood after we slits our wrists in sync with this song a tear comes to my eye and i write a shitty poem with it and call it vnv nation's greatest hits. ironically i'm HIV positive. this song helped me through a rough time when i ran out of places to slit my wrists as they looked like a well-tilled field. then this song helped me remember i could slit my toes. i love this band.

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RandomOck
04-13-2006

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this song is about bleeding and what happens when you slit your wrists. the line "whose blood do i bleed" rings super-duper true with me as i often ask myself this question. whenever im cleaning up my dogs blood after we slits our wrists in sync with this song a tear comes to my eye and i write a shitty poem with it and call it vnv nation's greatest hits. ironically i'm HIV positive. this song helped me through a rough time when i ran out of places to slit my wrists as they looked like a well-tilled field. then this song helped me remember i could slit my toes. i love this band.

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necromancer07707
02-16-2006

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Is it really necessary to post suicide stories on a friggin lyric site?

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Kitsune_Tokkan
01-26-2006

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The sheer emotion that he is screaming out during this song defines the very depth of this song... again an amazing song...

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dwarfsetsfire
07-02-2005

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James was one of my best friends. A guy you could really depend on to always be there. He overdosed. No clue if it was on purpose or accident. But I know he died in his room, alone without me there. The one time in our lives I was susposed to be there and I wasn't, but I have been ever since. I sometimes go visit where he was buried, but all I seem to do is feel the deepest sense of guilt and shame. This song means to me more than anyone I have ever listened to. Yet I cannot listen to more than half of it, without hating myself for not being there.

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necromancer07707
03-17-2005

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The quote at the beginning of the song has much meaning as well. It's form the movie 1984, spoken by a former "criminal" who had his brain washed in Room 101. I think the song has much to do with living in a life where one is totally controlled by expectations and external forces. I think that the "you" of "the day you died I list my way" is actually himself.

If you've read the book 1984 or read the movie, I think this song has just as much meaning as understnading the song to be about death of a friend/loved one.

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meow666
03-15-2005

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To me, this song has many meanings. The more obvious, the pain of loss, the pain of letting go, letting oneself feel the pain to the fullest and still go on, the apology to the dead for being alive, the words that can never be said.
But also an apology to those living, for being around.
It's an apology for being so different, so rejected that no one wants you around. So you leave, they don;t love you but you still love them.

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xheartbreakerx
01-14-2005

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dead stars - vnv's music is not meant to inspire you to commit suicide..
it's meant to inspire you to live life to it's fullest.

this song is about coping with the tragidy of the death of his soulmate, and learning to "let go"

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neveroddoreven
12-24-2004

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My boyfriend gave me a copy of these lyrics before we started going out. It's a sad song, but it means a lot to me.

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dead_stars
06-09-2004

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Absolutely brilliant.
If I ever kill myself, I want to do it to this song.

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animus impius
06-29-2003

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the version on PTF has no vocals; the version on the solitary ep has vocals.

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tru
05-05-2003

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This is my favorite song. So powerful, I always get a feeling of tranquillity when I hear it.

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necrology
03-06-2003

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4 days ago a friend of mine hung himself and slit his wrists. a friend of mine just played this song for me. it's incredibly powerful. i've got a funeral to attend to in about 5 and a half hours. if you are reading this, and you are feeling down, if you feel like ending it all, i've been there i know how it feels. problems have solutions, no matter how severe. help is always a 7 digit number away, call a friend. if you need someone that you don't know who you feel will not pass judgement on you, feel free to email me, i'll help you through whatever you need. I just joined the site so I'm not sure you if you can get my email address from my profile - but it's mr_kmfdm@yahoo.com

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allison_9889
09-24-2002

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i think this song expresses how someone feels when they have been treated very badly and you don't know who you are anymore. i love this song, it's just like the way i feel.

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Davegeta
08-22-2002

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This song kinda reminds me of the movie "Waking life" too.

The un-named Main character walks around and get Philosophical speeches... It's weird... Very good, though. I loved it.

The song is good, too. First by VNV I've heard.

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burningeyes
07-19-2002

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Electric Jungle...I own that movie...it is a great movie and that quote definately relates to that movie...just thought I put that in there...

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Electric_Jungle
06-18-2002

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Oh, and speaking of the quote by Meister Eckhart (props to plazbo) - Has anyone seen the movie "What Dreams May Come" That quote really reminds me of that movie a lot.

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Electric_Jungle
06-18-2002

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I saw VNV live on the first US date of their futureperfect promo tour, and they talked about "Forsaken". Ronan said that he rarley preforms this song live, because of what it means to him emotionally. (He must have lost a love, or close friend) He simply said "We don't like to see people come to our shows and be sad and cry, we don't make depressing music, this song is about letting go... thats all, just letting go" - which is where the quote from "jacobs ladder" would come in. Just thought I'd share that with you all. It really changed my view on this song, because I wouldn't have guessed it was about letting go until he said something, and now when I listen to it, it's very apparent... almost every part of the song is about letting go I was going to paste all the lyrics that drew attention to it, but ended up pasting about 90% of the song.. anyways, one of VNV's best. :)

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Helixi
06-12-2002

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Wow, somebody give plazbo a bonus donut or something. Thanks for the info and that's a cool quote!
Oh and I pretty much agree that the song is about a deceased loved one and the guilt of still being alive.

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plazbo
06-08-2002

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JesusKebab talked of the quote at the end of the song, saying it was from the movie "Jacob's ladder" well its in that movie, but it existed a long time ago, it was originally written by Meister Eckhart a Christian Mystic who existed early last milliuem and the and whole quote is (even though only half of it is used in the song)

"The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that
won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul. If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth." - Meister Eckhart

just wanted to clear that up for everyone :)

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